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"Shall we have tea out here or in the study?" Edith asked. "Anywhere so long as we escape from this," Burton replied, gazing across the lawn. "What is it?" A man was making his way from the house towards them, a man who certainly presented a somewhat singular appearance. He was wearing a long linen duster, a motor-cap which came over his ears, and a pair of goggles which he was busy removing.
The Duke came quietly into the hall, dressed in a heavy motor-coat, his motor-cap on his head, and carrying a kit-bag in his hand. "Did I hear you call?" he said. "Call?" said the millionaire. "I shouted. The burglars are here already. I've just seen one of them. He was bolting through the middle window." The Duke raised his eyebrows. "Nerves," he said gently "nerves."
I told Alfred to show them in, and to my surprise there appeared two horrible provincials. I never Oh!" She stopped short, for there, coming through the door, were the two Charolais, father and son. M. Charolais pressed his motor-cap to his bosom, and bowed low. "Once more I salute you, mademoiselle," he said. His son bowed, and revealed behind him another young man. "My second son.
You might have come along here to all eternity and not have been as inopportune."" "You take it very well." The big-coated apparition, in motor-cap with the ear-flaps down, and motor-goggles, and the suggestion of a rotundity about the centre, was not at all engaging to look at, but he had a charming voice. "I'm taking it so ill that I daren't express myself out loud," said Hal.
In a moment she was calm again, and taking up a motor-cap from the bed where she had flung it earlier in the day, she crammed it on her head with her usual disregard of appearance, and dragged on the coat which lay beside it. She ran to the door, but as she reached it she stopped. Retracing her steps to the dressing-table she scanned herself closely in the glass.
She walked in the shortest dress that a merciful fashion allows, a loose shirt hung boy-like on her slender figure, and a motor-cap, with the brim well pulled down over her eyes, covered her head. She shook hands and regretted inwardly that Mrs. Ogilvie did not like being kissed, although disclaiming even to herself that her distaste in this respect had anything to do with rouge and powder.
The grey mists were still hanging upon the hills of Glencardine, although it was already midday, for it had rained all night, and everywhere was damp and chilly. Gabrielle, in her short tweed skirt, golf-cape, and motor-cap, had strolled, with Walter Murie at her side, from the house along the winding path to the old castle.
So, within half an hour, both myself and the car were utterly disguised, even to the identification-plates, both back and front. The police would be on the look-out for a pale-blue car, driven by a moustached young man in a leather-peaked motor-cap, while they would only see passing a dark-red car driven by its owner, a respectable-looking middle-aged man in a cloth golf-cap, gloves, and goggles.
At last I returned to my room, obtained my motor-cap, coat, and goggles, and, having started the engine, got up at the wheel. My unwelcome friend swung himself up beside me, and we glided out into the Prager-strasse and through the fine capital of Saxony. My friend, in his smart motor coat and cap, certainly gave no outward sign of his real profession.
The Duke grasped the young man's left wrist, plunged his hand into the motor-cap which he was carrying, drew out of it a silver cigarette-case, and held it before his eyes. Bernard turned pale to the lips. His frightened eyes seemed about to leap from their sockets. "It it was a m-m-m-mistake," he stammered.
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