[A Fascinating Traitor by Richard Henry Savage]@TWC D-Link bookA Fascinating Traitor CHAPTER VII 50/69
My maid can accompany us.
This done, I will go to Calcutta with my two European servants, as you wish. You can take the train on either the preceding or the following day.
It will avoid both spies and gossip." "I will go before you and await you!" eagerly said Hugh Johnstone, rising.
"I will ask another person to dine with us to-morrow, and this evening I will prepare my daughter for the dinner, so that your coming will be no surprise to her.
Shall I bring my carriage here at four to-day ?" "I will await you," gravely said Alixe Delavigne, as she bowed in answer to her guest's formal signal of departure. An hour later Jules Victor reported to his mistress: "We drove to the telegraph office, where I awaited the gentleman for some time, and then we repaired to his home." There was a disgruntled man whose curses upon his kinsman's changing moods were both loud and deep when Douglas Fraser received a telegram that night at Allahabad.
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