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Meanwhile the trolleys from Nice and Mentone had poured into Monte Carlo their usual burdens of pleasure seekers. On one of the cars from Nice there had arrived two women, both veiled and simply gowned. The conductor had seen them before, but never at night. They seldom addressed each other, and never spoke to any one else. He picked them up at Villefranche.
The Grand Palace Hotel is above the town in large gardens.... If you choose you can remain there with your presence absolutely unknown, so far as the city proper is concerned. Also, the Marconi office has a station in the hotel grounds. With a code which we have yet to arrange, I can keep in touch with you...." The next day Benton was a passenger by steamer from Villefranche to Puntal.
With a kick and a blow he freed himself from two others who clung to him, and in a moment he was within the portal with his comrades. Yet their position was a desperate one. The peasants from far and near had been assembled for this deed of vengeance, and not less than six thousand were within or around the walls of the Chateau of Villefranche.
One is descended from an avocat; another from an apothecary; a third from a retailer of wine, a fourth from a dealer in anchovies; and I am told, there is actually a count at Villefranche, whose father sold macaroni in the streets.
But after passing Villefranche harbour, Beaulieu drowned in olives, and Eze under its old hill-village on a horn of rock, the Australian girl came back, to exchange a cap of purple suède for her cartwheel of a hat. "The next station where the train stops will be Monaco," she announced. "Oh, then you'll be getting out almost at once?" And Mary prepared to say goodbye. "Not yet.
I felt disposed to lunch at the grandest hotel in Villefranche, and a good woman whom I consulted on the subject led me through throngs of bartering peasants and cattle-dealers, forests of horns, and by the upturned jaws of braying asses, until she stopped before an inn. There all was bustle and commotion.
Everyone seemed carried away with this strange fever of enmity, which was seething in the Vicomte's veins. Most of the young men crowded round De Marny, doing their best to pacify him. The Marquis de Villefranche declared that the matter was getting quite outside the rules. No one took much notice of Deroulede.
May I be permitted to take entire control of affairs for a brief time? Also, will you for a few days obey my instructions, without question?" Benton looked across the table at the dark face half-obscured behind a blue fog of cigarette smoke. After a moment he smiled. "Admiral," he said, "issue your orders." "You will instruct the Captain," said Manuel promptly, "to head at once for Villefranche.
I assure you, upon my honour, I have no share whatever in any of the disputes which agitate the public: nor do I know any thing of your political transactions, except what I casually see in one of your newspapers, with the perusal of which I am sometimes favoured by our consul at Villefranche.
"They are, and beyond that lighthouse there, is Villefranche. Right behind it lies Beaulieu." And then, the pair having wrapped themselves up, we moved off again. "Run along the Promenade des Anglais, and not through the Rue de France, Ewart," ordered the Count. "Mademoiselle would like to see it, I daresay, even at this hour."
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