"Arab!" repeated Jack, in seeming astonishment.
"Yes."
"Didn't hear it myself."
"I certainly thought I caught the word Arab," said Mr. Mole, giving Jack a very suspicious glance.
"You never made a greater mistake, sir, in your life."
"How very odd."
"Very."
The Cannebière is the chief promenade in Marseilles, and the inhabitants of this important seaport are not a little proud of it.
Two men sat smoking cigarettes and sipping lazily at their grog au vin at the door of one of then numerous cafés in the Cannebière.