“Oh, don’t preach!” snapped Bart. “Let’s go to your room and talk this matter of the veiled woman over. There is trouble brewing for you, and you must be prepared to meet it. Havener has registered for the company, and all you have to do is call for your key.”
So Frank and Bart went to the room of the former.
Puelbo had been well “papered.” The work was done thoroughly, and every board, every dead wall, and every available window flaunted the paper of “True Blue.”
The failure of “For Old Eli” was still fresh in the minds of the people of the city, but neither had they forgotten Frank Merriwell’s plucky promise to bring the play back to that place and perform it successfully there.
The newspapers of the place had given him their support, but Frank was determined that extracts from the notices in the Denver papers should reach the eyes of those who did not read the Puelbo papers closely. With this end in view, he had the extracts printed on flyers, as small bills are called, and the flyers were headed in startling type:
“Five Hundred Dollars Fine!”
To this he added:
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“Each and every person who reads the following clippings from Denver newspapers will be fined Five Hundred Dollars!” |
It is needless to say that nearly every one who could read was careful to read the clippings through to the end.
This manner of attracting attention was effective, even though it may seem rather boyish in its conception.