"I don't know," replied Jack, "but he seems to be very much
interested in someone here. There, he is watching Cora. I wonder
who the fellow is?"
The curtain rising interrupted the speculation. A man cushioned
like a cozy corner laughed at himself while waiting for his audience
to do so. Then he gave a yell and started to sing a ridiculous song
about the milkmaid and the summer boarder. When he had finished one
verse he took another "fit" of laughter, but somehow the audience
did not see it his way, and when he tried it again, he broke off
with an explanation. He felt sure that the people did not quite
understand the joke, and he tried to tell them how very funny it
was. To relieve the situation another person came on. One side of
the figure was draped in the evening garb of a lady, while the other
wore the full dress suit of a gentleman. The illusion was not at
all bad, especially when the "person" waltzed with himself, with his
arms around the other side of the evening dress the effect was
really funny.
"That's Spencer," declared Jack to Hazel. "He did that at college.
Isn't it great?"
"Very funny," admitted Hazel, while the man made in halves bowed on
one side first, then on the other, to his applause.
"Mabel is going to sing now," announced Miss Blake getting a firmer
hold on her chair. "I just love to hear Mabel sing."
Jack said he did also, then outside the dropped curtain stepped
Mabel.
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