You can't fool a man in the show business so easily. After you
have grown older in the business you will learn a few things."
"I am learning fast," laughed the lad. "I am learning a lot of
things that I wish I did not have to learn."
"What, for instance?"
"That there are such men as you in the show business."
"Be careful, boy. You will go too far, the first thing you know.
Now, what are you doing here?"
"If you know so much I don't see why you should have to ask
that question."
"I'm asking."
"And I'm not telling. I'll answer none of your questions, unless
it is about something that I can tell you without getting others
into trouble."
"You already have admitted that you are with the Sparling show.
You have made several slips of the tongue since I got hold
of you."
"I haven't denied that I am with the Sparling show, neither have
I admitted it. I decline to lie or to give you any information
of any nature whatever."
"When is the Sparling show coming here?"
"I was not aware that it was coming here. Is it?"
"No, I didn't mean that. I mean when are they going to show
in Corinto?"
Phil was silent.
"You might as well make a clean breast of the whole business,
young man.
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