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"There are three mulattoes in that bunch over by the dune. And see that tall, skinny, dark man with the oilskin coat over his left arm? That must be Captain Bego." "He certainly looks like Vinton's descriptions," Norton observed. "And he's giving orders as if he " "Hark! What's that noise?" Breathlessly they waited and listened.
Better still, neither had an engagement for that evening, and at half-past six o'clock the four faithful friends were seated at their favorite mission alcove table at Vinton's, ordering their dinner, while Grace tried earnestly to put away her sorrow and be her usual sunny self.
"I'm so glad I thought of this nice surprise," beamed Emma, craning her neck, and pluming herself vaingloriously. "I have another beautiful thought, too, seething in my fertile brain. Let's go down to Vinton's and celebrate." "I knew some one was sure to propose that," laughed Patience. "I intended to be that some one, but Emma forestalled me."
This way!" Then he heard a savage oath, a sputtering, savage "Let go, damn your soul!" and then felt a sharp, stinging pang in the right side another another! and earth and sky reeled as his grasp relaxed, and with a moan of anguish he sank fainting on the dock. Vinton's fleet had reached Manila. A third expedition had coaled at Honolulu and gone on its way.
After Elfreda had experienced the satisfaction of being escorted round the room by her classmates, who continued to sing spiritedly at least three different songs at the top of their lungs, she was hurried into the dressing room by the Semper Fidelis Club. The moment she was dressed she was seized by friendly hands and marched off to Vinton's to a dinner given by the club in honor of her.
He smiled even more broadly on his return to the watchers, as Grace slipped a crisp green note into his hand and wished him a Merry Christmas. "Now we ought to do a little celebrating on our own account," she proposed. "Suppose we pay a visit to Vinton's. It isn't too cold for ices." "That is just what I was thinking," agreed Arline.
During the four days tables at Martell's and Vinton's were in demand and a continuous succession of dinners and luncheons made serious inroads in the monthly allowances of the hospitable entertainers.
On the way back from Guest House the pedestrians had stopped at Vinton's for a rest and ices. As they trooped in the door, they passed Kathleen West, accompanied by Alberta Wicks, Mary Hampton, and a freshman whom Grace had frequently noticed in company with the newspaper girl.
More transports were coming, and still there lingered in this lovely land of sun and flowers lingered for a time 'twixt life and death Vinton's stricken aide-de-camp, Lieutenant Stuyvesant. Of his brutal antagonist no trace had been found.
The oldest sister is trying to keep the little ones together, Mrs McIntyre tells me; and two of the sisters have come to the city to take places. The elder one is at Mrs Vinton's, in Beaver Hall." Remembering the consequences of such a communication on a former occasion, Christie trembled; but she was soon relieved. "Poor child!" said the lady. "So you have never been from home before?"
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