Remember that he's a stool and a squealer."
And swiftly Barney switched the subject. "Let's be moving along,
Jimmie."
He drew Maggie out into the hall, to make more certain that Miss
Grierson would not overhear. "Well, Maggie," he exulted, "haven't I
made good so far in my bargain to put you over?"
"Yes."
"Of course we're going slow at first. That's how you've got to handle
big deals--careful. But you'll sure be a knock-out when that she-
undertaker in there gets you rigged out in classy clothes. Then the
curtain will go up on the real show--and it's going to be a big show--
and you'll be the hit of the piece!"
With that incitement to Maggie's imagination Barney left her; and Old
Jimmie followed, furtively giving Maggie a brief, uncertain look.
CHAPTER XIV
A block away from the hotel Barney parted from Old Jimmie. For a space
Barney thought of his partner. Barney had quick eyes which were quite
capable of taking in two things at once; and while he had seen the
excited glow his final speech had brought back into Maggie's face, he
had also caught that swift look of uncertainty in the lean, cunning
face of Old Jimmie: a look of one who is eager to go on, yet sees
himself frustrated by his own eagerness. To Barney it was a puzzling,
suspicious look.
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