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I am all right, and everlastingly obliged to you, but I do not wish to be detained in Marseilles while the slow French law gets to work. So let him go. He is nothing a mere hireling, yes? And we sail to-morrow." "You've left your trademark on this chap," broke in Tagg. He was bending over a prostrate body, and the cab-driver was bewailing the plight of his voiturette.
Francis started off for the banquet at the Sauvage in his voiturette, but that long-suffering vehicle having made hundreds of kilomètres these last days, came to grief at the foot of "la Montagne de Marolles," and he was towed back by a friendly carter and arrived much disgusted when we were half through dinner. We heard all the details of the dinner from the Abbé Maréchal.
"One is a Humber voiturette, and the other a twenty-four Mercedes. You know her chauffeur Saunders from the Napier works." Of course I knew Saunders. He was once a very intimate friend of mine, but for the past couple of years I had lost sight of him. Why, I wondered, was Bindo so intensely interested in the over-dressed old crone?
We started in all sorts of conveyances train, carriage, voiturette and found the Grande Rue full of people. The official breakfast was over, also the visit to the Mairie, where there are a few souvenirs of the poet his picture, acte de naissance, and signature.
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