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Moved to adoration by scatterbrained, widowed Lavinia Brandon's charm were the vicar, his greensick pupil and his middle-aged churchwarden. That their adoration remained dumb was due to Lavinia's blissful inability to concentrate long enough to hear them out. Nevertheless they could try to protect her from each other, from Aunt Sissie's money, from a pesky lady folklorist home from Italy, and from the consequences of her own kind deeds. Only her two grown children appreciated how little protection Lavinia needed. In the end, when her witlessness and her ability to muddle through...
...meat on the hoof and a pair of rambunctious rodents, accepted two mighty-antlered mounted heads and the choicest pair of beaver pelts from the Company's London auction rooms. Late that night the train stopped for the trip's most unusual welcome at Brandon, Manitoba, where 10,000 children in a floodlit natural amphitheatre cheered and sang. The King and Queen stepped into the crowd to be hugged and kissed (he had been backslapped at Ottawa), as well as cheered. Tears were in the Queen's eyes as she returned to the train, murmuring...
Nicole was an egoistic, adventurous, impressionable, plain-looking, book-loving French girl. Her motto, borrowed from a religious martyr, was Resist. "Resisting" many a Frenchman, Nicole at 18 went to Dublin to teach French in a language school. When she met Michael Brandon, handsome journalist, and budding diplomat, her resistance collapsed-against the universal warning of her friends, who called him arrogant, priggish, sadistic and a lot besides...
...them. In the starboard engine they and Department of Commerce agents found a faulty master rod bearing and the crushed remnants of a link pin. That apparently accounted for the failure of one engine. Missing links to the disaster story were the failure of the other motor, and Pilot Brandon's failure to drop flares which would have shown him that the gully he crashed in was flanked by broad, roomy fields...
Those who knew the pilot agreed he must have been in a tight spot, for James L. ("Monty") Brandon was one of aviation's cool oldtimers. During the War he piloted the rattling biplanes of the British Royal Air Force as an instructor, afterwards fought in Russia for the White Army. He was one of the handful of commercial pilots with "1,000,000-mile" flying records. In May 1935, he flew influenza serum from Newark to the Eskimos of upper Alaska. Aboard was another air veteran-Douglas Aircraft Co.'s Test Pilot E. H. Veblen...