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Webster, Henry Kitchell, 1875-1932

"The Real Adventure"

And when I found it was
the Globe--he already had tickets--I was too--kind and sorry for him to
make a fuss. Well, and then she came out on the stage, and I knew what
it was all about."
"Where did you sit?" Jimmy asked.
"Fifth row," said John.
Violet hadn't got the bearing of Jimmy's question. "Oh, you couldn't
mistake her," she said, "any more than you could in this room, now."
"Do you mean," John asked, "that she might have recognized us?"
"They can't," said Violet, "across the footlights,--can they?"
Jimmy nodded. "In a little theater like that," he said, "anywhere in the
house. But it seems she didn't recognize you."
"Look here!" said Violet. "Don't you know, in your own mind, just as
well as that you're standing there, that that was Rose Aldrich?"
Jimmy dropped down into a big chair. "Well," he said, "I'm willing to
accept it as a working hypothesis."
"You men!" said Violet.
Dinner was announced just then, and the theme had to be dismissed until
at last they were left alone with the dessert.


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