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"You had better not!" he said with emphasis. "I have just seen him. He is in the smoke-room. I won't tell you what he is like. You probably know. But if you are a wise woman you will leave him for Damer to look after, and come with me." That decided her. She threw the hood of her cloak over her head and turned in silence to the door.
The sudden disappearance of the tenants of Rannoch was, I found, on everyone's tongue in Dumfries. In the smoke-room of the railway hotel three men were discussing it with many grimaces and sinister hints, and the talkative young woman behind the bar asked me my opinion of the strange goings-on up at the Castle.
It does not need to be fetched. They have still one fear. It is connected with the Duchesse. Let me think." They walked up and down the deck. The lights were extinguished one by one, except in the smoke-room. A strange breed of sailors from the lower deck came up, with mops and buckets. The wind changed its quarter and the great ship began to roll. Peter stopped abruptly.
"I was staring up at the window of the smoke-room to-day, and I remembered the shadow which you had seen upon the blind." "Yes?" he cried, eagerly; "and does your theory explain that, too?" "It does, Harley." "Then I am all anxiety to hear it." "Very well, then, I will endeavour to be brief.
The smoke-room of the "Migrants'" presented an appearance of especial comfort and attractiveness on a certain cold and stormy February evening a few years ago. A large fire blazed in the polished steel grate and roared cheerfully up the chimney, in rivalry of the wind, which howled and scuffled and rumbled in the flue higher up.
A man rose quickly from the lounge in the hotel as he entered. Duncombe greeted him with a little expression of wonder. "Spencer!" he exclaimed. "Were you waiting to see me?" The journalist nodded. He was not in evening dress, and he too had the appearance of a man who has received something of a shock. "Yes. The café is closed, I suppose. Let us go down into the smoke-room.
After breakfast, when the company were seated around the table in the smoke-room, and when, upon a sign from the Emperor, the aide-de-camp du jour had ordered the servants to withdraw, the Emperor William turned with a grave face to Baron von Grubenhagen. "And now let us hear, openly and without reserve, how, according to your observation, the German nation regards the possibility of a war."
There was nothing loyal or generous or worthy in the man. There is something admirable in a great rascal; but a sordid one is a pitiful thing. Craig entered the smoke-room and ordered a peg. At luncheon he saw them sitting together, and he smothered a grin. Couldn't play cards, or engineer a pool, eh? All right. There were other amusements.
"You are thinking that he has taken cover from the danger which he believes particularly to threaten him to-night?" "Exactly." "You may be right," he murmured, proceeding upstairs. He led the way to a little smoke-room which hitherto I had never visited, and in response to his knock: "Come in," cried the high voice of Colonel Menendez. We entered to find ourselves in a small and very cosy room.
At three o'clock on the following Monday afternoon the voyagers met in the smoke-room of the "Migrants'" as a convenient and appropriate rendezvous, and, without having dropped the slightest hint to anyone respecting the novel nature of their intended journey, quietly said "Good-bye" to the two or three men who happened to be there, and, chartering a couple of hansoms, made the best of their way to Fenchurch Street railway station, from whence they took the train to Blackwall.
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