reasonable supposition that there's
movement in front of us to-day, and so it's as well to prepare for it.
I'm not a breakfast eater myself, and coffee and cognac will be all I
can manage; but I'd advise you, as you are talented in that direction,
to stow away as much solid food as you can lay your hands upon. The
Lord knows what wild paper-chase that frock-coated idiot will try to
lead us on when he turns up again. That is always supposing he does
turn up, for, to tell the truth, I shouldn't be surprised if he made a
bolt of it at this stage of the proceedings, and just played on for his
own hand. And to let you into a secret, dear boy, I shouldn't be very
savage if he did sell us in that way. We've got some good plunder as it
is, and there'd be a devil of a lot of bother with one thing and
another if we set about to collar the rest."

"I can't say," I observed, "that I should object to being a billionaire
myself. I've never tried the sensation, and I dare say there are
drawbacks to it; but still, after a man's been beastly hard up all his
days, he doesn't mind going to a little trouble to make a big haul."

"You're energetic, old man; I'm not, and that's the difference between
us. When I've specie in my pocket, I've never been in the habit of
exerting myself to grab more till that's spent. I adopt the principle
which obtains hereabouts, and shrug my shoulders, and say,
'_Manana_.' However, if you're still on the gathering tack, I'm on
for helping you to the limit of my small ability. Only, as I say, I'm
not wonderfully keen on it from my own point of view."

We breakfasted at leisure, the one sketchily, the other with emphasis,
according to our appetites, and had just lit tobacco when the
swing-doors of the _cafe_ clashed and the anarchist rushed in.

"I have ordered a carriage," he exclaimed. "Come at once; we must meet
it at the stable. There is no time to drive round here. We shall barely
catch them as it is."

"Ho, ho!" said Haigh placidly; "so you've hit off the trail, have you?
Pollensa and Soller, is it?"

"No, senor; your guess was a true one. They drove off to catch the
Palma train at La Puebla. But come at once, or I must go alone."

So we went off with him to the _establo_, climbed into a
sacking-floored shandrydan, and rattled boisterously through the narrow
streets of Alcudia. Once on the broad level road beyond the walls, the
driver, who had already received his orders, made the cattle stretch
ou