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Updated: May 23, 2025
The thought made her impatient of all delay she felt herself almost trying to urge the train to quicker motion she was glad when at last they roared into the station at Brussels. Grace had never before been in the Belgian capital, but she summoned a cab, and proceeded without difficulty to the Hotel Metropole.
"Besides your own holdings in a lot of railways and things, you handle your mother's and sisters' property, don't you?" He nodded. "In a fashion, I do. I sign the necessary papers when the lawyers call me up, and ask me to come down-town." "You are a director in the Metropole Trust Company?" "Guilty." "In the Consolidated Seacoast?" "I believe so."
The Clutterbuck cousin had proclaimed that owing to the inadequacy of the bedroom furniture she had been obliged to employ a sofa as a wardrobe. Then there were more references to Captain Deverax. And then at dinner it became known Heaven knows how! that the entire Clutterbuck party had given notice and was seceding to the Hotel Métropole.
Think what one could do, now, with some of the notes I have in my pocket! Hire a motor-car, go to some bright place like the Metropole at Brighton a bright, cheerful, sociable place, I mean, where people who look interesting aren't above talking to you. And then a little dinner, and perhaps a music-hall afterwards, and some supper, and plenty to eat and drink " "Burton!" Mr. Waddington gasped.
Denry was wandering, apparently aimless, between the finish of the tobogganing track and the portals of the Métropole. The snowfall had repaired the defects of the worn track, but it needed to be flattened down by use, and a number of conscientious "lugeurs" were flattening it by frequent descents, which grew faster at each repetition. Other holiday-makers were idling about in the sunshine.
Dale brought the car to the Grand Hotel in good time, and Medenham ran it some distance along the front before drawing up at the Metropole.
Brooks, caused him to conclude that he had been made the victim of a clever trick, and one which only his professional enthusiasm had made possible. He at once set to work, through Mayer and his men, to locate Brooks. This was done, without difficulty, at the Hotel Metropole.
"Maybe," answered Slavens shortly. "Well, here's where I turn off. I'm stopping at the Metropole down here." "Say!" Walker caught his arm appealingly. "Between you and me I don't like the looks of that dump where I've got a bed.
Friends of mine I knew at Brighton, who took me there, a rich Jew and his wife who'd lived in Africa, said when the Dauntreys turned up at the Metropole that he'd been at a pretty low ebb out there. I believe he studied for a doctor, but I don't know if he ever practised. Nobody can say exactly who Lady Dauntrey was originally, but she was a widow when he married her, and supposed to have money.
As soon as I realized the impossibility of penetrating the headquarters, I returned to the "Metropole" and took up a position of vantage upon the balcony, and was able to secure a unique snapshot of the hoisting of the new flag of the Republic, and took another of the cheering of the crowd though this was very insignificant and in no way represented any considerable body of citizens, any of the better class having disappeared, leaving the streets to idlers and women and children or else stray sightseers.
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