Michael
Produced by Donald Lainson MICHAEL by E. F. Benson CHAPTER I Though there was nothing visibly graceful about Michael Comber, he apparently had the art of giving gracefully. He had already told his cousin Francis, who sat on the arm of the sofa by his table, that there was no earthly excuse for his having run into debt; but now when the moment came for giving, he wrote the cheque quickly and eagerly, as if
"Say, son, YOU'RE a dry one, all right."
"Eh?"
"Wake up! I'm saying you're all right."
"Much obliged."
"You certainly took enough off him to rile a sheep. Why didn't you
do it?"
"Do what?"
"Tip him in."
Perkins glanced upward at the balcony where the vines had closed
upon a face that smiled.
"Oh," he said mildly, "he's a friend of a friend of mine."
IV
TWO ON A MOUNTAIN-SIDE
ORCHIDS do not, by preference, grow upon a cactus plant. Little
Produced by Donald Lainson MICHAEL by E. F. Benson CHAPTER I Though there was nothing visibly graceful about Michael Comber, he apparently had the art of giving gracefully. He had already told his cousin Francis, who sat on the arm of the sofa by his table, that there was no earthly excuse for his having run into debt; but now when the moment came for giving, he wrote the cheque quickly and eagerly, as if