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"We might remain hidden in a remote cottage," Barebone had suggested to Colville, "awaiting the development of events, but our best chance is 'The Last Hope. She is at Bordeaux, and must be nearly ready for sea." So it was hurriedly arranged that they should make their way on foot to a cottage on the marsh while Jean was despatched to Bordeaux with a letter for Captain Clubbe.
"And his secret died with him?" suggested Dormer Colville, looking at the end of his cigar with a queer smile. But Captain Clubbe made no answer. "One may suppose that he wanted it to die with him, at all events," added Colville, tentatively. "You are right," was the reply, a local colloquialism in common use, as a clincher to a closed argument or an unwelcome truth.
"We might remain hidden in a remote cottage," Barebone had suggested to Colville, "awaiting the development of events, but our best chance is 'The Last Hope. She is at Bordeaux, and must be nearly ready for sea." So it was hurriedly arranged that they should make their way on foot to a cottage on the marsh while Jean was despatched to Bordeaux with a letter for Captain Clubbe.
Did he ever say anything to you about his former life his childhood his recollections of France?" "He was not a man to say much," answered Clubbe, himself no man to repeat much. Colville had been trying for some time to study the sailor's face, quietly through his cigar smoke. "Look here, Captain," he said, after a pause. "Let us understand each other.
"I am not here to suit you," murmured Captain Clubbe, without haste or hesitation. "No. Well, let us say for the present that she was the mother. We can discuss that another time. When did she die?" "Seven years after landing here." Colville made a mental calculation and nodded his head with satisfaction at the end of it. He lighted another cigarette.
He was, it seemed, a privileged person, and took it for granted that he should go ashore with the captain. He was, perhaps, one of those who seemed to be privileged at their birth by Fate, and pass through life on the sunny side with a light step and laughing lips. Captain Clubbe was the first to step ashore, with one comprehensive nod of the head for all Farlingford.
Captain Clubbe was not the man to prolong a farewell or waste his words in wishes for the future, knowing how vain such must always be. Loo was dazed still by the crash of the storm and the tension of the effort to bring his boat safely through it. The rest had not fully penetrated to his inmost mind yet.
He had lived there since the death of his brother, two years earlier that grim Clubbe of Maiden's Grave, whose methods of life and agriculture are still quoted on market days from Colchester to Beccles. The evenings were shorter now, for July was drawing to a close, and the summer is brief on these coasts. The moon was not up yet, but would soon rise.
On the contrary, it is going splendidly," answered Barebone, gaily; and Captain Clubbe ducked his head down again over the papers of the French custom-house. "It is going splendidly, but " He paused. Half an hour ago he had no thought in his mind of Captain Clubbe or of Farlingford.
"Did the Marquis de Gemosac and Dormer Colville tell you everything, or only a little?" "I don't suppose they told me everything," was the reply. "Why should they? I am only a seafaring man." "But they told you enough," persisted Barebone, "for you to draw your own conclusions as to my business over here." "Yes," answered Clubbe, with a glance across the table. "Is it going badly?" "No.
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