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DICK ALLENBY NEVER described himself as being engaged, and the tell-tale finger of Mary Lane bore no ring indicative of her future. He mentioned the fact casually as he sat in her dressing-room between the last two acts of Cliffs of Fate and he talked to her through a curtain behind which she was changing her dress.
'I shall be getting a bad name,' he said. 'Nothing damages the reputation of an inventor more readily than to be recognized by stage-door keepers.