5A covered passageway had been added this year from the Villa Shalimar to the Villa Mimosa. Shalimar had been built three years previously and sold, as soon as it was finished, to the Rajah of Jehangar.
It was an enormous, pretentious building, dazzling white, which commanded from its position high up on the hill above Monte Carlo a magnificent view of the town below and the sea beyond.
Large though it was, the Rajah had found himself the previous year cramped for space when he had accommodated not only his official staff with its crowd of Aides-de-Camp, Secretaries, Major Domos and their personal attendants, but also the lady of his choice, who invariably accompanied him on his annual visits to Monte Carlo. And so at great expense the Rajah purchased the Villa Mimosa and with some archi
