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Devere had been deserted earlier, and Major McDonald had marched his men to Dodge, where Molly awaited his coming. Retained there on garrison duty, the two occupied a one-story, yellow stone structure fronting the parade ground.
"I'm not going to have this picture spoiled." "Please don't fall off, whatever you do!" cried Ruth, who was back of Mr. Sneed. "That would leave me to do the steering and I don't know the first thing about it." "Well, I'll do my best," he said, as graciously as he could. "Certainly I don't want to make trouble for you, Miss DeVere."
The DeVere family was now in much better circumstances than when we first made their acquaintance. They had been gradually paying the back bills, the landlord had been appeased, so that there was no danger of dispossession, and there was much happiness in the little flat. "We could even afford a better one, if you girls would like to move," said Mr. DeVere one day.
"All work is 'common, I suppose. It's also common to starve but I'm not going to do it if I can help it. Good-night!" and she flounced into her own room. "Oh, dear!" sighed Ruth. "I wish Alice were not so so lively" and she cried softly before she fell asleep. Mr. DeVere was up early the next morning. He seemed more cheerful, though his voice, if anything, was hoarser and more husky than ever.
Alice and Ruth tried to tell him at once, the former eager to enlist his sympathies in Jack's cause. Mr. DeVere promised readily enough. "Though I can't hold out any hope for you," he said. "I know nothing of law, but international affairs are always slow." "But I ought to get justice in the end, ought I not?" asked Jack, respectfully. "You ought, my man, and I'll do all I can for you," said Mr.
There'll be no fake about this if you'll excuse the use of slang," he added. That evening, seated in the palm garden, Mr. Pertell explained to his company something of the plans for the next day, telling of the plot of the play in which the motor boat race was to figure. "That sounds interesting," commented Mr. DeVere. "Do those boats go very fast?" inquired Mr. Sneed.
DeVere glanced through it rapidly, looking for some item. Russ and the two girls watched him curiously. "Here it is!" cried the actor. "It is headed 'Brings Damage Suit for Ten Thousand Dollars. Listen, I'll just give you the main facts. It says Dan Merley had started an action in one of the courts demanding ten thousand dollars' damages for being hurt by a street car.
She resolved to be on the watch, to look and listen, without saying much, until she had in her mental grasp some of the loose ends of the puzzle. Ruth was some distance off, talking to her father. Mr. DeVere, in spite of the warmth of the day, had a light silk scarf about his throat, which had pained him during the night.
Our boy rides his pony and studies under his abbé, and keeps a pair of red cheeks, thank God. I ought to send you more about the society in Rome, but I have lived much alone this winter, and have little to tell you. Dr. Manning and Mr. DeVere stay away, not bearing, perhaps, to see the Pope in his agony. Your ever affectionate friend, Soon after her return to America Mrs.
DeVere, as he paused over the letter again. "It merely speaks of him as 'our client. He may be in the hospital, for all I can tell." They discussed the matter from all viewpoints, but there was nothing to be done. "You will have to reply to the lawyers, though; won't you, daddy?" asked Ruth. "Oh, yes, I must write to them.
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