CHAPTER TWOActually it was after nine o’clock the next morning when they arrived at Paddington Station to catch the train that the Earl had been informed departed promptly at half-past-nine.
It would mean two changes before they could reach Plymouth.
He had also, when he had bid goodbye to the Count last night, told him to make sure that the ship he had come in from the Balkans proceeded at once to Plymouth to dock there and await instructions.
He was certain that this would take some time.
But if they were successful in the mission they were undertaking, the Count would be able to return to Samosia with the good news, or even better still, with the bride-to-be herself.
‘I hope I have thought of everything,’ the Earl said to himself when he woke up early in the morning.
He asked hims
