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Still, this was a safer topic than his previous conversation with Hussein-ul-Mulk, so he persevered gamely. They soon reached the quay. Sir Hubert became almost incoherent with agitation when they passed the Blue-Bell and came into full view of Edith, Jack, Fairholme and Daubeney, who happened to leave the hotel shortly before five o'clock in order to visit the yacht and secure a good cup of tea.
"That's Fairholme," Sloyd went on, as they came to a large and rather new house situated on the skirts of Blentmouth. "Observe the glass those houses cost thousands of pounds grows peaches all the year, they tell me. At this point, Madame Zabriska, we turn and pursue the road by the river."
Gros Jean, the Turks, Edith, Fairholme each and every member of the two parties on the wharf and on the deck of the Blue-Bell momentarily forgot the minor excitement of the situation in view of this unexpected apparition. "Voil
Fairholme, by no means a hasty man in the ordinary affairs of life, and only upset now by the unforeseen annoyances of an unusually disquieting mission, realized that he was losing caste. It was a novel experience to be rebuked by a chauffeur, but he had the sense to swallow his wrath. "Perhaps I ought to explain that I am particularly anxious to see Lord Medenham," he said more calmly.
Brett read the wonder in the girl's eyes, and hastened to explain. "The Earl of Fairholme," said Brett, "thought I might be of some service in the matter of your brother's strange disappearance, Miss Talbot. I am not a professional detective, but my friends are good enough to believe that I am very successful in unravelling mysteries that are beyond the ken of Scotland Yard.
The two were breakfasting alone at the moment there was not even a man-servant in the room but Lord Fairholme had long ago established the golden rule that controversial topics were taboo during meals. Medenham laughed outright at the sudden change of topic.
Suddenly the door of Brett's bedroom opened, and a decrepit elderly man appeared, a shabby-genteel individual, disfigured by drink and crumpled up by rheumatism. "Who the devil " began Fairholme. But he was amazed to hear Brett's familiar voice asking "Do you think the disguise sufficiently complete?"
If once he eluded the grasp of his pursuers after landing they might probably would secure him, but not the diamonds. Daubeney, now purple with perplexity, and Fairholme, swearing softly under his breath, sprang from the deck to the low wall of the quay. Almost unconsciously they joined Sir Hubert and Mr. Winter. Edith followed them. She glanced at her brother.
If the despised chauffeur had proved such a tough opponent, what would happen now that he turned out to be a sprig of the aristocracy? He guessed at once that the Earl of Fairholme appraised Cynthia Vanrenen by the Devar standard. He knew that five minutes in Cynthia's company would alter this doughty old gentleman's views so greatly that his present fury would give place to idolatry.
"And now, Lord Fairholme," he added, before Talbot could do other than grasp his hand and shake it impulsively, "we want your friend's yacht. We will set out for Palermo at the first possible moment. We must reach there many hours, perhaps a whole day, before Dubois, who is on a sailing vessel, and even with the start he has obtained cannot hope to equal the performance of a fast steamer.
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