"But we certainly couldn't commandeer your car, as you so kindly suggest."
"I'm here alone," said Mr. Colebridge, "the machine holds seven, and I don't talk French. So you'd be doing me a real kindness. I'm staying at the Hotel Beaulieu. May I ask where you?"
"We're stopping at the Riviera," Stephen told him. "Come and see us."
"I shall avail myself of your kind invitation. I presume you play, Miss Pendleton?"
"Play? Oh, the Casino? I haven't been yet, but I mean to go, when Mr. de Lisle is better. I've never gambled and I'm longing to."
"I go there every night," said the heavy one. "I flatter myself I know the game, sir. When I'm ahead I quit. And I generally quit ahead." He clapped his hand to his pocket, and then felt inside his coat. Judy expected bank notes to appear, but instead he produced a gold cigar case.
"Will you smoke, sir? I reckon these are superior to what you can obtain hereabouts."
The old man waved them away.
"If they were made on Olympus for Jove himself, I couldn't smoke one," he said.
"Too bad!" commiserated the other, taking
