Chapter 5

_and that_ ARNOLD _isn't_. GEOFFREY _takes his weeping wife home with him. Everybody finds out that_ GEOFFREY _is an enormous liar and an unmitigated blackguard. Through the open windows are seen the editors of the Sun and the Free Press, each determined to be the first to offer_ GEOFFREY _a place on the staff of his respective journal. The curtain falls and_ STOEPEL _directs each member of the orchestra to play the tune that he may like best. After three hours of this sort of thing a humane person in the audience brings in a saw and begins to file it. The rest of the audience are thereupon gently lulled to sleep by the music of the file--so soft and soothing does it sound by contrast with_ STOEPEL'S _demoniac orchestra._