“Grand old chap.”
“Thanks. Better wait till I've done something. What about your part in the show?”
“A humble friend, accompanying the important newspaper correspondent in his travels.”
“That's all right. But the Trevenna business is played out.”
“A new travelling name's as easy to fit as a travelling-coat.”
“Not quite, unless you can match it with a new travelling face.”
“Luckily Carmona knows Romeo's face better than mine. And, anyhow, a motoring get-up can be next door to a disguise.”
“That's true. Behind goggles Apollo hasn't much advantage over Apollyon, and you can develop a moustache. Yes. I think we can work it as far as that goes. But one's always heard that Spanish roads are impossible.”
[pg 038] “They'll be no worse for us than for Carmona,” I argued. “Besides, most of the best known books about Spain are out of date. The King has made motoring fashionable lately, and there must have been some attempts to get the roads into passable condition.”
“I happened to hear an American who's here with a sixty horse-power Panhard, wanting to go to Seville, say to another fellow that he'd been warned he couldn't get beyond Madrid.”