"
"Excellent!" I cried, slapping my thigh. "This settles all doubts. So
much for that fool Tiler. My lord will be very grateful to you," and I
handed him back the telegram, having first copied it word for word in
my note-book.
"It means, I suppose," suggested l'Echelle, "that you will make for
Milan, too?"
"No fear--by the first train. You'll be clever if you get the start of
us, for I presume you will be moving."
"I haven't the smallest doubt of that; we shall be quite a merry
party. It will be quite like old times."
CHAPTER XXIII.
[_Colonel Annesley again._]
I had no reason to complain of the course of events culminating in the
affair at Culoz. I defended to myself the assault upon Lord Blackadder
as in a measure provoked and justifiable under the circumstances,
although I was really sorry for him and at the poor figure he cut
before the police magistrate and gendarmes. But I could not forget the
part he had played throughout, nor was I at all disposed to turn aside
from my set purpose to help the ladies in their distress. Every man of
proper feeling would be moved thereto, and I knew in my secret heart
that very tender motives impelled me to the unstinting championship of
Lady Claire.
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