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Hyacinth

CHAPTER XI
18/24

I haven't got money enough to keep them in Paris, and they won't get anything from Dr.Leyds until you have them on board the steamer.' Captain Quinn seemed satisfied, but later on in the evening he returned to the subject.
'I can't help feeling that it would be better for me, at all events, to go over to Paris at once.

I shouldn't ask to draw any pay at present.

I have enough by me to keep me going for a few weeks.' 'But what about the men?
Will you come back for them ?' 'No, I think that would be foolish and unnecessary.

There is no use in attracting attention to our movements.

We can't have a public send-off, with cheers and that sort of thing, in any case, or march through the streets like those ridiculous yeomen.


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