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The Profiteers

CHAPTER XI
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"He doesn't get any money till Wednesday, and I haven't earned enough this week to pay my garage bill." "I'll take you both," Wingate promised quickly, "if Lady Dredlinton will make a fourth." "Delightful," Josephine assented.
"I have a box at the Opera," Phipps announced, leaning forward.

"Give me the pleasure of entertaining you all." Josephine shook her head.
"Tannhauser! I am sorry, Mr.Phipps, but I couldn't possibly stand it.
Ask us another time, won't you?
To-morrow night," she went on, turning to Wingate, "let us be absolutely frivolous.

A revue, I think." "And dinner first at the Milan," Wingate insisted.
"And supper afterwards and a dance at Ciro's," Sarah put in.

"I must tell Jimmy the glad tidings." Peter Phipps made his adieux to Lady Amesbury early and drove in his electric coupe first to Romano's, then to the Milan and finally to Ciro's.

Here he found Dredlinton, seated in a corner by himself, a little sulky at the dancing proclivities of the young lady whom he had brought.
He greeted Phipps with some surprise.
"Hullo, Dreadnought!" he exclaimed.


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