[A Fascinating Traitor by Richard Henry Savage]@TWC D-Link bookA Fascinating Traitor CHAPTER XIII 44/45
He knows the faces of all the dramatis persona.
You see, Douglas Fraser is gone to India and old Andrew has never seen any of our 'star actors.' We are absolutely safe!" "It seems that fortune favors us," tremblingly said Alixe Delavigne. "This prying and curious Yankee, Professor Hobbs, also seems to have fallen at once into the trap! Captain Murray's description of his 'interview,' at the Royal Victoria, with Alaric Hobbs, is a crystallized work of humorous art!" "Of course the Yankee savant will write columns to the Waukesha Clarion, describing this Asiatic lion, Prince Djiddin, and exploit him in the States as an 'original discovery' of his own.
His eagerness to arrange an interview between the Prince and Professor Fraser is most ludicrously fortunate for us," said Captain Anstruther. The entrance of the butler with a telegram disturbed "Prince Djiddin" and his lovely confidential staff officer.
"An answer, please, Captain," formally continued the household factotum. "Hurrah!" cried Hardwicke, when the little conclave gathered around the red light.
"Simpson has arrived, and now Nadine and I have some one whom we can both trust!" The further information that the "Moonshee" would arrive forthwith to conduct "Prince Djiddin" to the safe haven where that fascinating bride, Mrs.Flossie Murray, awaited her beloved truant, was a call to prompt action.
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