Show chairman failed to sell the lecturer the torture Is especially acute when au sire nrc lecturing on a supported not by season tickets but by then yov actually have to to see bought a and n d paid lid for it if the audience Is more generous thin than most audiences ate arc 1 kemem reme niler ier a mens church club which ns run aun this way said the chairman aoi aln birst ali si nt at the audience and then at we 1 1 I I know you are going to have a anre treat rent this his for OUT attest Is a speaker of nf f the aie liis liet eld iber N now nw janik nien yau cant ex peet to pot et sn for nothing HIT attraction this evening cost us costs us Mu business siness of fumbling in hl ills pocket for foi a of talle I 1 braved god toi to me bend costs us Is kano there must lie be one fine thousand men here tonight toni glit now it if give 40 rents rf ants apiece it alil wl 1 l cover everything and leave SIO in the treasury for next nest time usher pt passed isseI the hat bat the chair man counted the receipts ath a n growing expression of disgust ile he stopped steppe d forwald rind flung up tip his hand gentlemen lie in a anne which would have wrung arun remorse from it a tizer tier the returns are all in and they amounted to just 2875 coq lr han three ehret cents apiece api oce though I 1 knew I 1 was worth loss less thin than 1 linof aff that lint sum this knowledge di not diminish the pair pain of the situation I 1 looked vainly about for means of escape guests of honor were sitting between rne me and the only exit ex I 1 became aware that the chairman was speaking again or still sill lie ile was askin ashin the audience if f they seriously thought such a speaker as myself was loyth 71 lie ile was making the most of the rhetorical question he was gloating over it I 1 was about to yield to the Iru to rise and fell him with ray my chair when mien he paused ile he was offering the aud audience lence tle the alternative ot of having the hat pas passed again immediately or giving more the following sunday vociferously the audience chose the latter alternative probably most of them would not be there next nest sunday neither thank heaven should L I 1 the chairman turned to meat last he be was finished ile he was expecting a lecturer whom he had tortured to entertain a thousand men whom he had be been on chided berated insulted G gregory regor y mason in scribners magazine |