"
"At two o'clock in the morning! What an uncomfortable hour!"
"Tides, as King Canute discovered, are beyond mortal control. The
Telemachus goes out with the ebb. And, after all, for our purposes
surely no hour could be more suitable. If I come for Dick at
midnight tomorrow that will just give us time to get him snugly
aboard before she sails. I have made all arrangements with Glennie.
He believes Dick to be what he has represented himself - one of
Bearsley's overseers named Jenkinson, who is a friend of mine and
who must be got out of the country quietly. Dick should thank his
luck for a good deal. My chief anxiety was lest his presence here
should be discovered by any one."
"Beyond Bridget not a soul knows that he is here not even Sylvia."
"You have been the soul of discreetness."
"Haven't I?" she purred, delighted to have him discover a virtue so
unusual in her.
Thereafter they discussed details; or, rather, Tremayne discussed
them. He would come up to Monsanto at twelve o'clock to-morrow
night in a curricle in which he would drive Dick down to the river
at a point where a boat would be waiting to take him out to the
Telemachus. She must see that Dick was ready in time. The rest
she could safely leave to him.
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