"You done all you contracted to do, Harve; and you done it 'baout's well as ef you'd been brought up--" Here Disko brought himself up.

He did not quite see where the sentence was going to end.
"Outside of a private car ?" suggested Dan, wickedly.
"Come on, and I'll show her to you," said Harvey.
Cheyne stayed to talk to Disko, but the others made a procession to the depot, with Mrs.Cheyne at the head.

The French maid shrieked at the invasion; and Harvey laid the glories of the "Constance" before them without a word.

They took them in in equal silence--stamped leather, silver door-handles and rails, cut velvet, plate-glass, nickel, bronze, hammered iron, and the rare woods of the Continent inlaid.
"I told you," said Harvey; "I told you." This was his crowning revenge, and a most ample one.
Mrs.Cheyne decreed a meal; and that nothing might be lacking to the tale Long Jack told afterwards in his boarding-house, she waited on them herself.

Men who are accustomed to eat at tiny tables in howling gales have curiously neat and finished table-manners; but Mrs.Cheyne, who did not know this, was surprised.