“Was, you mean.”
“He isn’t now?”
“No.”
“Well, I don’t understand——”
“Neither do I. We have the opera house engaged for the eighteenth, and King is to play here the nineteenth, yet his paper covers every board in town, and I can’t even find one of our lithographs in a window. What does it mean?”
“Why, your company has gone up.”
“Gone up?”
“Yes, bu’sted.”
“Who told you that?”
“Dispatch from King said so.”