And so Mr. Edgerton is very much worried and I says to him, “Do you
really think that she will do such a mean thing?”
He says, “I do not know for is it possible to say what a woman will do
when she is very angry?”
I says, “Yes it is possible,” I says, “if you do not mind answering me
a very personal question.”
“What is that Miss Riggs?”
“Will you tell me whether Mrs. Edgerton has got any money of her own?”
“No she has not.”
“Then Mr. Edgerton,” I says, “you may rest quite easy for she is not
going to say a word to the Spokesman nor to anyone else that will tell
because don’t you see that if she done that she would be throwing her
bread and butter in the mud?” I says.
“But she is frightfully angry Miss Riggs almost hysterical.”
“That is all right,” I says. “But when a woman gets hysterical she
always keeps one corner of her brains that knows what she is doing and
why. Mrs. Edgerton has got a swell apartment and an electric coop and a
squirrel-skin coat and all them things is very nice and what is making
her angry is the idea that I am getting a part of them away from her.
But that is not going to make her give up the rest,” I says.
“Really now,” he says, “you are too cynical about women.”
“No,” I says, “but women have had to get what they have got from men
and they have had to learn how. But maybe these is things that it is
not right for women to tell to men so if you do not mind I will talk to
you about the Spokesman and what He thinks about my idea that He should
have a lot of pictures took showing Himself as a farmer’s Boy back on
the old homestead.”
Well he tells me that he has talked about the idea with the Spokesman
who is very much enthused about it and thinks it will be a great
publicity stunt. And He is going to send up word for them to water
the hay on the old place and grow it just as quick as they can and
when it is high enough He will take His private train with about a
hundred newspaper reporters up there and they can take pictures of the
great Man riding a hayrake and that will surely be better than riding
a camelephant. And Mr. Edgerton says he has spoke to the reporters
also and they are keen about it and one of them has got the promise
of a picture of the Spokesman with His arm about His favorite cow
that He milked when He was a boy and when the general manager of the
Amalgamated Press Association or something like that got wind about
what they was planning he telegraphed for a life-size picture of the
Spokesman leading old Dobbin home from the pasture.
Mr. Edgerton says it is a shame that hay grows so late in them artic
regions and there is no way you can imitate it in a motion picture
studio. And then I says, “Look-a-here Mr. Edgerton,” I says, “I have
got a crow to pick with you and now is the time.”
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