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"Not got," he said, apologetically, with a vague idea that by speaking very elementary English he came somehow nearer to French, "That all," he continued, producing his little store and holding it out beseechingly to the official. "Pas assez, not enouf," growled the latter. Quelch tried again in all his pockets, but only succeeded in finding another threepenny piece.
All that he knew was, that he had been fearfully tossed about, and often horribly uncomfortable. It had not occurred to him to feel his beard, in so confused a state was his mind. At length he heard the Captain's voice calling him. "Come up, if you please, Mr Quelch, we are off the coast of Africa, and it is time for you to be on shore.
After a sharp walk he reached the railway-station, and in due course found himself steaming across the Channel to Dieppe. The passage was not especially rough, but to poor Quelch, unaccustomed as he was to the sea, it seemed as if the boat must go to the bottom every moment.
You have been gadding about in some vile foreign place with my misguided husband." "Oh, Quelch is in it too, is he? Then it must be a bad case. But let's see what we have been up to, for, 'pon my word, I'm quite in the dark at present." He held out his hand for the telegram, and read it carefully. "Somebody's been having a lark with you, old lady," he said to his wife.
Scarcely recovered from the effects of his ample potations, the little sense he possessed entirely forsook him. He began to storm and swear, and declared that he had been vilely tricked. Loud peak of laughter from the guests present were the only answer he received. "Come, come, Mr Quelch!" exclaimed Peter Crean, touching him on the shoulder.
Fladgate, you have escaped from your foreign prison." "Foreign, how much? Have you both gone dotty, ladies? I've just escaped from a third-class carriage on the London and Northwestern. The space is limited, but I never heard it called a foreign prison." "It is useless to endeavour to deceive us," said Mrs. Quelch, sternly. "Look at that telegram, Mr. Fladgate, and deny it if you can.
Such, therefore, in the fitness of things, should have been the hat and such the neck-gear of Benjamin Quelch, and the veto of his wife only made him yearn for them the more intensely. In later years he had been seized with a longing to see Paris. It chanced that a clerk in the same office, one Peter Flipp, had made one of a personally conducted party on a visit to the gay city.
As for smoking, I shouldn't have thought he was up to it; but with that sat-upon sort of man begging your pardon, Mrs. Quelch you never know where he may break out. Worms will turn, you know, and sometimes they take a wrong turning." "But Benjamin would never dare " "That's just it. He daren't do anything when you've got your eye on him. When you haven't perhaps he may, and perhaps he mayn't.
And Quelch proceeded to give the address of Mr. Fladgate, 11 Primrose Terrace. "Tres bien. I send teleg-r-r-amme. Au violon!" And poor Benjamin was ignominiously marched to the local police station. Meanwhile Quelch's arrangements at home were scarcely working as he had intended. The estimable Mrs.
Quelch, stood before the looking-glass and contemplated his guilty splendour, the red necktie and the soft gray felt hat, purchased out of surplus funds. He had expended a couple of guineas in a second-class return ticket, and another two pounds in "coupons," entitling him to bed, breakfast, and dinner for five days at certain specified hotels in Paris.
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