"What duel?" asked Gordon.
"I do not think I should be justified in saying which duel, sir," said Ridley.
"Oh, yes, you would," said Gordon, thinking that a Christian butler was a very expensive person to deal with. And Ridley told him.
"You'll send me word to the Grand when his lordship comes back?" said Gordon.
"I should hardly be—"
"Of course, you would be," said Gordon.
"Very well, I will, sir," said Ridley.
Gordon went back to the hotel, and Ridley went back to the others.
"He's not at all bad for a Jew," he said, contemplatively, "not at all bad. I only hope that the Christian gentlemen whom I expect every moment will be as reasonable."
Before the evening was over, he interviewed with varying results Mr. Rufus Q. Plant, Mr. de Vere, Captain Goby, and Mr. Carteret Williams. He knew that Lord Bramber couldn't come on account of the illness of the earl, and he heard that Carew was down with influenza and delirious on the subject of Penelope. He told the others what he thought of them all.