"
"Say, you're getting quite chummy lately--reg'lar society
leader," Rabin informed him.
Mr. Wrenn's answer was in itself a proof of the soundness of
Rabin's observation:
"Sure--I'm going to borrow some money from you fellows. Got to
make an impression, see?"
A few hours after this commendation came Istra's second letter:
Mouse dear, I'm so glad to hear about the simpatico boarding-
house. Yes indeed I would like to hear about the people in it.
And you are reading history? That's good. I'm getting sick of
Paris and some day I'm going to stop an absinthe on the
boulevard and slap its face to show I'm a sturdy moving-picture
Western Amurrican and then leap to saddle and pursue the bandit.
I'm working like the devil but what's the use. That is I mean
unless one is doing the job well, as I'm glad you are. My Dear,
keep it up. You know I want you to be _real_ whatever you are.
I didn't mean to preach but you know I hate people who aren't
real--that's why I haven't much of a flair for myself.
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