Dan hustles us into the
professor's shrine in the rear.

As soon as she gets inside, the professor tells her to prepare for a
shock. She shivers all over, grabbin' the side of the chair and takin'
a long whiff out of a little green bottle. Then she says she'll try
and be brave, and to let her have the works. The professor says he has
finally dug up Marc Anthony, and all the spirits is in there tryin' for
them, so's they can be brought together. He told her to go right back
to her rooms at the Fitz-Charlton and he would send out the old thought
waves for Marc. Just when he'd get him, he didn't know--it might be a
day, a week or a month, but she was to sit there all dolled up to
receive him and wait. He said she would know Marc, because he would
have a snake tattooed on the third finger of his right hand in memory
of the way Cleopatra kissed off. That's all he was allowed to give out
just now, he winds up.

Well, the stout dame thanks him about six hundred times and waddles out
darn near hysterical. She grabs hold of her daughter and hisses in her
ear,

"Oh, Gladys, they've found him! My beloved Marc Anthony is coming to
claim me for his own. Then we will return to Egypt, and, sitting upon
a golden throne--"

Friend daughter pulls a weary smile and leads Cleopatra to the door.

"Oh, don't, mother!" she says. "Don't! If you only knew how all this
sickens me! This man has hypnotized you! Why don't you listen to me
and take that trip to California where--"

"What!" squeals the stout dame. "What? Be away when my Marc comes?
How dare you think of such a thing! I did that once and if you have
read your ancient history, you must remember the terrible result!"

Daughter sighs, shakes her head and they go out.

Now the Kid has been takin' all this stuff in without lettin' a peep
out of him and when the stout dame has left, I figured he'd tear right
in to the plotters, so I got ready to hold up my end and reached for a
chair. But what d'ye think the Kid did? He falls down on a sofa and
starts to laugh! On the level, I bet he snickered out loud for a good
fifteen minutes and then he gets up and walks to the door without
sayin' a single word to either Dan or the professor, after all that
stuff he pulled on me at the hotel!

While we're goin' down in the elevator, Honest Dan tells us that they
got a handsome actor who just now is playin' in a show called "Standin'
on the Corners, Waitin' for a Job," and