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Updated: June 13, 2025
"Well, if Monty Brewster is still in love with Miss Drew he takes a mighty poor way of showing it." "Subway" Smith's remark fell like a bombshell. The thought had come to every one, but no one had been given the courage to utter it. For them Brewster's silence on the subject since the DeMille dinner seemed to have something ominous behind it. "It's probably only a lovers' quarrel," said Bragdon.
Not to be downed so easily, DeMille watched the play from behind Monty's chair and cautioned his friend at the first opportunity. "Better cash in and change your seat, Monty. They're robbing you," he whispered. "Cash in when I'm away ahead of the game? Never!" and Monty did his best to assume a joyful tone.
"This is a genuine, dyed-in-the-wool mutiny and we expect to carry out the original plan, which was to put Mr. Brewster in irons, until we are safe from all opposition." "He is my friend, Mr. Smith, and at least it is my duty to protect him from any indignity," said the captain, stiffly. "You make for Boston, my dear captain, and we'll do the rest," said DeMille. "Mr.
"Is it anything serious?" asked DeMille. "What! has anything happened?" came in halting, frightened tones from Peggy. "It concerns me alone, and it is purely of a business nature. Seriously, I can't delay going for another minute. It is vital. In an hour I'll return. Peggy, don't be worried don't be distressed about me.
He waited until a pin fall could have been heard before he went on. "Maitre corbeau sur un arbre perche " he finished the speech as he was being carried bodily from the room by DeMille and Bragdon. The Frenchmen then imagined that Smith's remarks had been insulting, and his friends had silenced him on that account.
In plain words, we want to keep him from spending more of his money on this cruise. Do you understand our position, Captain Perry?" "Fully. I wish with all my soul that I could help you and him. My hands are tied by contract, however, much as I regret it at this moment." "How does the crew feel about this additional trip, captain?" asked DeMille.
The "Glencoe" made several stops before Southampton was finally reached on the 28th of August, but when the English coast was sighted every one was too eager to go ashore to begrudge the extra day. Dan DeMille asked the entire party to become his guests for a week's shooting trip in Scotland, but Monty vetoed the plan in the most decided manner.
"The prettiest girl in New York, by Jove," gasped Dan DeMille, clutching Bragdon by the arm. "And look at Monty! He's become a new man in the last five minutes," added Joe. "Look at the glow in his cheeks! By the eternal, he's beginning to look as he did a year ago." A clock chimed the hour of nine. "The man who was here yesterday is in the hall to see Mr.
Some of the others were smiling a little sheepishly, but the two men were pictures of solemnity and decision. "Monty," said DeMille steadily, "we have been conspiring against you and have decided that we sail for New York to-morrow morning." Brewster stopped short and the expression on his face was one they never could forget.
He moved a little writing-table up to the divan, and she looked on eagerly while he wrote down the names she suggested after many puckerings of her fair, aristocratic brow, and then drew lines through them when she changed her mind. Mrs. DeMille handled her people without gloves in making up Monty's lists.
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