Before dark that very evening he and Higgins were aboard his private yacht at the Port of Tilbury.
“From now on I will no longer be using my title,” he instructed Higgins. “You will address me as ‘sir’ and to the world I am merely ‘Lieutenant Ivan Worth’.”
Because he had known him for some years, Higgins said nothing, but, as he was so fond of his Master, he had cursed Lady Helen and wished her bad luck.
A short while later the sails went up the masts and the yacht moved out into the English Channel.
Looking back Ivan could remember all too clearly his feelings as they sailed towards the French coast.
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The Duke of Wellington had accepted him and he was immediately involved in the preparations for the battle.
Only then did he feel the pain and humiliation of all that had happened t
