"Yes," said Mark, wisely avoiding the error of over-protestation.
And to his astonishment Leonore's father not only gave his
consent, but suggested a fairly early date for the wedding.
"I wish I could show my gratitude in some way," said Mark with
genuine emotion. "I'm afraid it's rather like the mouse proposing
to help the lion."
"Get people to buy that beastly muck," said Dullamy, nodding
savagely at a poster of the despised Pipenta, "and you'll have
done more than any of my agents have been able to accomplish."
"It wants a better name," said Mark reflectively, "and something
distinctive in the poster line. Anyway, I'll have a shot at it."
Three weeks later the world was advised of the coming of a new
breakfast food, heralded under the resounding name of "Filboid
Studge." Spayley put forth no pictures of massive babies
springing up with fungus-like rapidity under its forcing
influence, or of representatives of the leading nations of the
world scrambling with fatuous eagerness for its possession. One
huge sombre poster depicted the Damned in Hell suffering a new
torment from their inability to get at the Filboid Studge which
elegant young fiends held in transparent bowls just beyond their
reach.
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