No talent availed
without it; large posters, pictures, window-cards, etc.; but as her
talent was superlative, he must now endeavor to keep up with it by
invention in his line--the puff circumstantial, the puff poetic, the puff
anecdotal, the puff controversial, all tending to blow the fame of the
Klosking in every eye, and ring it in every ear. "You take my advice,"
said he, "and devote this money, every penny of it, to Publicity. Don't
you touch a single shiner for anything that does not return a hundred per
cent. Publicity does, when the article is prime."
"You forget," said she, "this money does not all belong to me. Another
can claim half; the gentleman with whom we are in partnership."
Ashmead looked literally blue. "Nonsense!" said he, roughly. "He can only
claim his fifty pounds."
"Nay, my friend. I took two equal sums: one was his, one mine."
"That has nothing to do with it. He told me to bet for him. I didn't; and
I shall take him back his fifty pounds and say so. I know where to find
him."
"Where?"
"That is my business. Don't you go mad now, and break my heart."
"Well, my friend, we will talk of it tomorrow morning.
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