A square meal works wonders in bracing people up.
Miss Standish, do you think you can rouse the maids to an effort to get us some sort of food?
If not, we can forage for ourselves, in the icebox.

What do you think ?" * * * * * Two hours later--after a sketchy meal served by trembling-handed servants--the trio were seated in the music-room.

Over and over, a dozen times, they had reviewed their position, from all angles.
And they had come to the conclusion that the sanest thing to do was to wait in comfortable safety behind stoutly shuttered windows until the dawn of day should bring the place's laborers back to work.

Daylight, and the prospect of others' presence on the grounds, was certain to disperse the Caesars.

And it would be ample time then to go to Miami and to safer quarters, while Gavin should start the hunt after Rodney Hade.