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You will leave by the midday train from the Gare de Lyon and go to Madame Odette's in the boulevard Gambetta. I may want you. We shall follow by the train-de-luxe. It is best that Mr. Henfrey is out of Paris. The Surete will certainly be searching for him."
But Jimmy Flockart, the good-looking, amusing, well-dressed idler, was living down at the "Savoy," and was daily in her company, driving, motoring, picnicking, making excursions in the mountains, or taking trips over to "Monte" by the train-de-luxe.
Lady Ranscomb was very much mystified at Hugh's disappearance, though secretly she was very glad. She questioned Brock, but he, on his part, expressed himself very much puzzled. A week later, however, Walter returned to London, and on the following night Lady Ranscomb and her daughter took the train-de-luxe for Boulogne, and duly arrived home.
He himself opened the door, and a short, thin man, with a red moustache, entered the room. "Please tell this lady, Jacob, in a few brief words, what you have done since Wednesday evening, when, after letting her get into the train-de-luxe which was taking me from the Gare de Lyon to the south, you yourself remained on the platform at the station.
I suppose by the time that you will go to India all this prelude will have vanished, you will rattle through in a train-de-luxe from Calais, by way of Baku or Constantinople; you will have none of this effect of a deliberate sullen approach across limitless miles of sea. But that is how I went to India.
Then, next day, he took the train-de-luxe direct for Calais, and went on to London, all unconscious of the sensational events which were then happening. On arrival in London he found a telegram lying upon his table among some letters. It was signed "Shaw," and urged him to meet him "at the usual place" at seven o'clock in the evening.
"I shall leave the Gare de Lyon at eleven fifty-eight to-morrow, and go direct to Madame Odette's in Nice," she said. "Yes. Remain there. If I want you I will let you know," answered The Sparrow. And then she descended the stairs and walked to her hotel. Next evening Hugh and The Sparrow, both dressed quite differently, left by the Riviera train-de-luxe.
The lady told me there might be three of you or two of you.... And I didn't know..." "But, in heaven's name, speak, man! What lady?" "The lady who spent the whole day on the pavement, with the luggage, waiting." "Well, out with it! Has she taken a train?" "Yes, the train-de-luxe, at six-thirty: she made up her mind at the last moment, she told me to say.
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