Her Faithful Knight — page 306: what you’re looking at

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302 The Uses of Advertisement. “Have you seen the Sunday Porcupine?” he asked. “No.” “Tt contains a most interesting account, with a portrait, of an interview with a little soubrette actress called Lelia Mongomery. I recognized her in a minute as being the made-up little person who forced her way past me up to your compartment at Plymouth station when I was see- ing you off on your honeymoon journey. It’s a most up- to-date interview, and will send up the circulation of the Porcupine by leaps and bounds. ‘The headings alone are worthy the money. Listen: “The Hammersmith Mys- tery.’ ‘Interview with Leila Mongomery.’ ‘She Believes in Phyllis’ Innocence.’ “The Sisters’ Hearts Broken by a Cowardly Seducer.’ ‘He Marries Them Both.’ ‘A I‘ashionable Bigamist.? ‘Miss Mongomery Thinks It Was Suicide.’ “Good, all that, for a beginning, eh? And here’s the interview : “‘Tt having come to the knowledge of the Sunday Porcupine that much light could be thrown upon the Hammersmith mystery by Miss Leila Mongomery, a rep- resentative of our paper called yesterday evening upon that young lady in her residence in Camberwell, and was at once accorded an interview. “Miss Leila Mongomery, who is a golden-haired, vi- vacious, little lady, of exceptionally prepossessing ap- pearance, is at present ‘resting,’ in the theatrical parlance, having recently concluded a highly successful engage- ment as principal boy at the North Stourton Theatre. On the subject of the Hammersmith mystery she is voluble and emphatic, and she displayed much womanly feeling and affection when alluding to the accused and missing woman, Phyllis Knight. We will give Miss Mongomery’s racy talk verbatim: “Phyllis was quite incapable of cruelty,’ she declared, COMmicoookks (S@)