13/23 I passed and repassed three or four times. The effect was always the same. At any rate, they showed no pressing desire to make my acquaintance! At Boulogne I descended at once into the saloon and made a hasty meal. When I came up on deck in the harbor I found that the chair which I had engaged was lashed close to the open door of a private cabin, and in the door of that cabin, standing within a few feet of me, was the niece of Monsieur Delora. |