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...Government had no answer and few plans. "We're not responsible for sun-spots," snapped mystic mathematician Premier Eamon de Valera at his critics. And while Dev doodled oversize hieroglyphics, at his side nervous, lanky Agriculture Minister Patrick Smith could only assure the Dail that "with the help of God" the weather would mend. "I have faith in the mercy of God," piously echoed an Opposition frontbencher. Like the Government, the Opposition had no further ideas...
...these pacific remarks, Mr. de Valera invited Americans to take his side in the fight for a united Ireland. "Abraham Lincoln fought a bitter civil war.... There are," suggested Dev, "few Americans who today would say that the ideals for which he fought were wrong...
Hugo's cousin, Devereux Bolinvar. last of the sporting, aristocratic New Jersey Bolinvars, is the book's second hero. "Dev" (6 ft. tall, "fit as a panther") knew all about Cousin Hugo's guilty worry. But Dev was too much of a gentleman to raise the question, and Hugo believed in letting sleeping dogs lie. So the cousins never spoke. But they spent all their time trying to outdo one another on horseback...
...night Hugo was entertaining the Duke of Hoven in his Virginia mansion. A dreadful scream rang out. A Negro child had been devoured by a monstrous fox. Nothing remained but a few bones, a pigtail, a pathetic scrap of petticoat. Hugo, Dev and the Duke leapt into the saddle, galloped madly after the fleeing...
This flow of supply keeps Eire's shaky economy going. It also feeds and heats Nazi Minister Eduard Hempel's big staff on Dublin's Northumberland Road. And it fuels Jap Consul Fetsuya Beppu's auto on its way to the local golf course. Dev's people and guests were in danger of becoming cold, hungry pedestrians...