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Scan 273
The second violin, 1906
10 lines. Read by computer on 3 September 2026. Printed page 243. See the scan on archive.org.
1I don't believe the change will bother them. I can coach you on that."
2"All right," and Just hurried back to the telephone.
3Within three-quarters of an hour he had them all there, a laughing crew, ready for what struck them as a frolic for themselves. Chester Agnew carried the instruments behind the screen, and managed to slip the members of the new orchestra one by one from the dining-room doorway to the shelter of the palms without anybody's being the wiser. In ten minutes more soft music began to steal through the crowded rooms.
4"The orchestra has come, after all," said Mrs. Agnew to her husband, in the front room. Her voice breathed relief.
5He nodded satisfaction. "So I hear. I don't know how they managed it, but I accept the fact without question."
6"Do you think it's always safe to do that?" queried his son Chester, coming up in time to hear.
7"Accept facts without question? What else can you do with facts?"
8"But if they should turn out not to be facts?"
9"In this case I have the evidence of my ears," returned the learned man, comfortably, and Chester walked away again, his eyes dancing.
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