The man took the money from the Earl eagerly.
“Thank you, sir, thank you!” he said. “It has been privilege to work for you.”
“You have done your part splendidly and I am very grateful.”
He then thanked and tipped the man with the ornate carriage and he promised to return the clothes the Earl had worn to the shop he had borrowed them from.
Then the Earl mounted his horse and, as the men they had employed bowed, he and Dalma rode off.
They had gone some distance before they found the road on which they had arrived at Fez and the moonlight made it as easy to find their way as it had been the previous day in the sunshine.
In fact, as it was so much cooler, Dalma thought the way back to the yacht would not be as tiring as it had been coming from it yesterday.
She was, however, well aware
