CHAPTER VI
A NEW PROPOSITION
There was no need for Ruth and Alice to ask their father what had happened. One look at his ashen face when he came home from the theater was enough.
"Oh, Daddy!" cried Alice. "Couldn't you make it go?"
He answered with a shake of the head. The strain of the rehearsal had pained him.
"Did—did they put in someone else?" asked Ruth.
"Yes, I'm out of it for good—at least for this engagement."
"The mean things!" burst out Alice "I think that Mr. Cross is rightly named. I wish I could tell him so, too!"
"Alice!" reproved Ruth, gently.