hands with one another, as if we were dear
friends who had always worked for one another's welfare.

"Mentone and Paris will be our neighbourhoods for winter and summer,"
said Pether, "and you two men must contrive to beat us up somehow and
compare notes over this mutual score."

"Ladies are seldom averse to jewellery," said Haigh. "Will Mrs.
Cromwell deign to accept from Mr. Cospatric and myself this small
packet of diamonds, to be mounted as she sees fit?"

In fact, for the space of half an hour we were fulsomely civil to one
another; and then they bobbled off in the dinghy, and the yacht took
them I know not where; and we, after putting Taltavull in one of the
carriages, drove off ourselves to Palma in the other.

"Faith," said Haigh, "it's a different man I am this day from when I
saw you first in Genoa, old chappie. But after all this fresh air and
exercise I must really go on the rampage for a bit. Come now, Palma for
a few days, and then we'll hark back to the ugly cutter and go off
somewhere else. Where shall we go?"

"Note which way the wind blows, and start before it."

"Right," said Haigh. "There's nothing like having definite plans
beforehand."

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