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AVARICE AMONG THE AVOCADOS 65 ton. Three years later Cecil appeared, prematurely and in Yankee country! The bawling nonconformist ignored the date set for him by the doctor, arriving at Ashfield, Massachusetts, where his father was engaged for the summer in private tutor- ing in an effort to help along the family's meager purse. Bill was clearly his father s son, cut from the same cloth- thoughtful, sensitive, creative. Cecil, on the other hand, was obviously a young man in a hurry. He flashed spirit and daring. His daydreams had vigor and more often than not a fearsome adversary. A friend who had seen them making pictures to- gether in the early days of Hollywood touched upon the differ- ences between the two. "When Cecil wanted camels in a picture he would buy a thousand with golden harness and parade them before the camera. Bill would buy one camel and have it psycho- analyzed." Cecil was Mother's boy, from large, strong features to his remarkable durability. At one point the family rented a house in Echo Lake, New Jersey, for something like $50 a year because it supposedly was haunted. Shortly, they left for a brief spell and returned to learn that neighbors had heard crashing sounds in the place every night. While a curbstone conference was in progress, Mrs. DeMille marched past her neighbors into the darkened home. In a few minutes she had flushed out a tramp, chasing him into the night, brandishing her long black umbrella. The vagrant had been enjoying Mrs. DeMille's choice preserves, hurling the empty jars at a marble clock which he had set up as a target. DeMille has recalled a little shakily the time his mother fol- lowed him out to Hollywood, around 1914. "She bought the biggest, fastest, shiniest Packard and drove it like hell around town. Once she almost ran me down." There was also the occasion, a few years after her husband's sudden and early death, that Mrs. DeMille decided to enroll Cecil in a military school in Chester, Pennsylvania, Cecil was about fifteen.