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Updated: June 20, 2025
Picture to yourself the smiles, the whispers, the half-spoken scandal that will cling to her through life. Who will believe her when she says that she was ignorant of your rank when she started out from London? The incomparable Cynthia and the naughty Viscount, touring their thousand miles through England with Mrs. Devar as a shield of innocence!... Mrs.
She went to the hotel bureau, but a sympathetic landlady shook her head. "The post-office is closed. No telegrams can be dispatched until eight o'clock on Monday," she said. "But there is the telephone " "It is matterless," said Mrs. Devar, crushing the written forms in her fingers as though she had reason to believe they might sting her. She resolved to let events drift now.
The broad scars left by a heavy cart crossed the studs, and had crossed after the passage of the car. Thus he eliminated the vagaries of chance. Marigny had not taken the road to Bristol he must be on the other one since no cart was in sight. Medenham backed and turned. Mrs. Devar, of course, grew agitated. "Where are you going?" she demanded.
"Very probably," agreed Mrs. Devar cheerfully. "We are all subject to ups and downs. For my part, I was speaking
A deeply sympathetic landlady, a number of servants, and most of the feminine guests in the hotel all the men were down on the quay had gathered to murmur their congratulations; but Mrs. Devar, dismayed by Cynthia's action, which might have brought about a catastrophe, revived with phenomenal suddenness.
"Old New York, do you call it?" he asked quietly. The tense restraint in his voice would perhaps have betrayed his mood to a more delicately tuned ear than his companion's, but young Howard Devar, heir of the Devar millions son of "Vancouver" Devar, the Devar who fed multitudes on canned salmon, and was suspected of having cornered wheat at least once, thus woefully misapplying the parable of the loaves and fishes had the wit to appreciate the significance of the question, deaf as he was to its note of longing, of adulation, of vibrant sentiment.
His lordship looked mightily displeased when he discovered the presence of Curtis and Devar, but he was a self-confident man, and regarded himself as a personage of such importance that he assumed the lead in this company at once. Moreover, it was evident that he had resolved to keep a firm rein on his temper. "Now, Mr. Schmidt," he said brusquely, "your time and mine is valuable.
Leland might be and Cynthia's first cry of the name sent a shock of recognition through him it was fully evident that the addition of another member to the party would straightway shut him out of his Paradise. Mrs. Devar, in the rôle of guardian, had been disposed of satisfactorily, but "Mrs. Leland" was more than a doubtful quantity.
Devar was kneeling on one of the front seats, and the roundsman, who had removed his uniform hat to avoid attracting notice when a lamp shone directly into the interior, quietly took stock of the men who had so unceremoniously called him off his tour of inspection. Evidently he satisfied himself that he was not being dragged into a wild-goose chase.
"Make it two of 'em, my lord, an' let me take it out of the other one," growled Dale. "Well, there is a bottle-holder," said Medenham, thinking of Devar, "a short, fat fellow, an Englishman, but a most satisfactory subject for a drop kick." "Say when, my lord, an' I'll score a goal with him." Dale seemed to be speaking feelingly, but his master paid slight heed to him then.
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