'
'Oh! So you want a servant?' he added, after a moment's pause.
'I mentioned that, because you were so kind as to say you could help me
in that respect.'
'Ah! I did,' said Lord Eskdale, thoughtfully. 'But I want a great many
things,' continued Tancred. 'I must make arrangements about money; I
suppose I must get some letters; in fact, I want generally your advice.'
'What are you going to do about the colonel and the rest?'
'I have promised my father to take them,' said Tancred, 'though I feel
they will only embarrass me. They have engaged to be ready at a week's
notice; I shall write to them immediately. If they do not fulfil their
engagement, I am absolved from mine.'
'So you have got a yacht, eh?' said Lord Eskdale. 'I suppose you have
bought the Basilisk?'
'Exactly.'
'She wants a good deal doing to her.'
'Something, but chiefly for show, which I do not care about; but I mean
to get away, and refit, if necessary, at Gibraltar. I must go.'
'Well, if you must go,' said his lordship, and then he added, 'and in
such a hurry; let me see. You want a firstrate managing man, used to the
East, and letters, and money, and advice. Hem! You don't know Sidonia?'
'Not at all.'
'He is the man to get hold of, but that is so difficult now.
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