...
"Suppose we kidnap you, take you out somewhere in the country--then,
after a day or so--find you bound, in a farm house....
"Of course it would compel them to put off the performances for a few
days ... but look at the excitement; and the stories in the papers!...
afterwards you could go on tour through all the principal cities of
Kansas."
The idea fascinated me, in spite of myself....
"But how about Dineen? He'd go nearly crazy!"
"There's where a lot of the fun would come in. And to see the way Gertie
Black, the elocution teacher, would carry on!..."
But after a long pause of temptation I shook my head in negation of the
suggestion....
It _would_ be a lark, but I had pledged Dineen that I would give him no
more trouble with my vagaries....
And, besides, I didn't trust Jack Travers--once they had me in their
power, he and his kidnappers might hide me away for several weeks ... to
"bust up" the play entirely; would, I wisely reflected, be, to Travers,
even a greater joke than merely to delay its production.
And I wanted this time to show my enemies that I could be depended on in
affairs of moment....
* * * * *
We had to have recourse to Kansas City for our costumes. And we were
more fortunate in them than the cast of _She Stoops to Conquer_ had been
the year before....
Costumes had then been rented for them which left the children
mysteriously itching, driven to the inexplicable necessity of scratching
in embarrassing localities.
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