A PARLEY
XVII. WHEREIN JOHN AND HERMIONE BECOME ORDINARY MEMBERS OF SOCIETY
ILLUSTRATIONS
FRANCIS X. BUSHMAN AS JOHN D. CURTIS. BEVERLY BAYNE
AS LADY HERMIONE . . . . . . _Frontispiece_
Scenes from the photo-drama
Scenes from the photo-drama
Scenes from the photo-drama
ONE WONDERFUL NIGHT
CHAPTER I
DUSK
"There, sonny--behold the city of your dreams! Good old New York, as
per schedule. . . . Gee! Ain't she great?"
The slim, self-possessed youth of twenty hardly seemed to expect an
answer; but the man addressed in this pert manner, though the senior of
the pair by six years, felt that the emotion throbbing in his heart
must be allowed to bubble forth lest he became hysterical.
"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.
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