“What are you going to do?” Lady Ethel asked in wonder.
“Follow them,” she answered curtly.
“And I will go with you,” Lady Ethel said in a low voice, but her eyes were shining brightly.
CHAPTER XXXVI
There was a feeling of constraint when Gaunt led Edward Drake from the room after the latter’s interview with Lady Ethel.
“I am afraid that I came in at a rather inopportune moment, but this is not the time for love-making,” Gaunt remarked kindly.
Half an hour later they were with Captain Armstrong, who had just arrived from Newcastle to make final arrangements.
“We can sail in a couple of days,” the captain remarked cheerfully.
“And if we leave by the Saxon on Saturday, you can pick us up at Las Palmas. With the superior speed of the Esmeralda you ought to arrive about the same time we do,” Gaunt remarked.
“She did twenty-five knots in her last trial,” the captain answered complacently.