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The Girl and the Graft 95
picture in most of 'em for a week. How much would
it be worth to you ?'
"'Ten thousand dollars,' says Vaucross, warm in a
minute. 'But no murder,' says he; 'and I won't wear
pink pants at a cotillon.'
"'I wouldn't ask you to,' says I. 'This is honorable,
stylish and uneffeminate. Tell the waiter to bring a
demi tasse and some other beans, and I will disclose to
you the opus moderandi.'
" We closed the deal an hour later in the rococo rouge
et noise room. I telegraphed that night to Miss Artemisia
in Salina. She took a couple of photographs and an
autograph letter to an elder in the Fourth Presbyterian
Church in the morning, and got some transportation and
$80. She stopped in Topeka long enough to trade a
flashlight interior and a valentine to the vice-president of
a trust company for a mileage book and a package of
five-dollar notes with $250 scrawled on the band.
" The fifth evening after she got my wire she was waiting,
all decolletee and dressed up, for me and Vaucross to take
her to dinner in one of these New York feminine apart-
ment houses where a man can't get in unless he plays
bezique and smokes depilatory powder cigarettes.
"'She's a stunner,' says Vaucross when he saw her.
'They'll give her a two-column cut sure.'
"This was the scheme the three of us concocted. It
was business straight through. Vaucross was to rushI I
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