"
"Barney!" breathed Maggie. She was silent a dazed moment, then asked:
"Just--just what am I going to do?"
"Listen, Maggie: I'll spill you the whole idea. I'd have told you
before, but it's developed rather sudden, and I've not had a real
chance, and, besides, I knew you'd be all for it. Jimmie and I have
canned that stock-selling scheme for good--unless an easy chance for
it develops later. Our big idea now is to put YOU across!" Barney
believed that there might still remain in Maggie some lurking
admiration for Larry, some influence of Larry over her, and to
eradicate these completely by the brilliance of what he offered was
the chief purpose of his further quick-spoken words. "To put you
across in the biggest kind of a way, Maggie! A beautiful, clever woman
who knows how to use her brains, and who has brainy handling, can
bring in more money, and in a safer way, than any dozen men! And I
tell you, Maggie, I'll make you a star!"
"Barney! . . . But you haven't told me just what I'm to do."
"The first thing will be just a try-out; it'll help finish your
education. I've got it doped out, but I'll not tell you till later.
The main idea is not to use you in just one game, Maggie, but to
finish you off so you'll fit into dozens of games--be good year after
year.
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