Lecount's shoulders?"
"Lecount has all the trouble, of course; Lecount is paid for it! But I
don't really go, do I?"
"You go as fast as horses can take you to the railway without having
held any previous communication with this house, either personally or
by letter. You leave Mrs. Lecount behind to pack up your curiosities,
to settle with the tradespeople, and to follow you to St. Crux the next
morning. The next morning is the tenth morning. On the tenth morning
she receives the letter from Zurich; and if you only carry out my
instructions, Mr. Vanstone, as sure as you sit there, to Zurich she
goes."
Noel Vanstone's color began to rise again, as the captain's stratagem
dawned on him at last in its true light.
"And what am I to do at St. Crux?" he inquired.
"Wait there till I call for you," replied the captain. "As soon as Mrs.
Lecount's back is turned, I will go to the church here and give the
necessary notice of the marriage. The same day or the next, I will
travel to the address written down in my pocketbook, pick you up at the
admiral's, and take you on to London with me to get the license.
With that document in our possession, we shall be on our way back to
Aldborough while Mrs.
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