Something may happen--who can tell?
Events--events--if a man will watch and wait and study events--" "Bless me! They organize clubs in every American village for the study of events," laughed Armitage; then he changed his tone.

"To be sure, the Bourbons have studied events these many years--a pretty spectacle, too." "Carrion! Carrion!" almost screamed the old man, half-rising in his seat.
"Don't mention those scavengers to me! Bah! The very thought of them makes me sick.

But"-- he gulped down more of the brandy--"where and how do you live ?" "Where?
I own a cattle ranch in Montana and since the Archduke's death I have lived there.

He carried about fifty thousand pounds to America with him.

He took care that I should get what was left when he died--and, I am almost afraid to tell you that I have actually augmented my inheritance! Just before I left I bought a place in Virginia to be near Washington when I got tired of the ranch." "Washington!" snorted the count.