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MR. RICARDO arrived in London at half-past three. He had slept in the train and was looking forward to giving his friend, Monsieur Hanaud, over a charming little dinner for two, quite a comical account of his night's adventure on the mail ship Agamemnon, plying between Brittany and the Dart.
But, alas! though he rehearsed the scene diligently, letting the real terrifying danger leak through the amusing episodes, making much of the mate's miscalculation of the dawn, it was good work wasted. Only Hanaud's suit-case arrived in Grosvenor Square in time for dinner.