' 'Yes,' said I, '--and to better professional
rewards. It means so many more hundreds of dollars a year in pay.' But you
know all about that, too.
"I'm glad your dramatic club is getting forward so well with the rehearsals
for its first drive of the season; glad too that, this time at least, they
have given you a good part. Tell me all about it before the big stars in
town begin to dim your people in my eyes--and in your own; and don't let
them cast you for the next performance in January. You will be here by
then.
"Yours,
"B.L.C."
8
_COPE UNDERTAKES AN EXCURSION_
Two or three days later, Randolph met Medora Phillips in front of the bank.
This was a neat and solemn little edifice opposite the elms and the
fountain; it was neighbored by dry-goods stores, the offices of renting
agencies, and the restaurants where the unfraternized undergraduates took
their daily chances. Through its door passed tradesmen's clerks with
deposits, and young housewives with babies in perambulators, and students
with their small financial problems, and members of the faculty about to
cash large or small checks.
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