Chapter XXI
"To-day," Hamel declared, as he stood at the sideboard the following morning at breakfast-time and helped himself to bacon and eggs, "I am positively going to begin reading. I have a case full of books down at the Tower which I haven't unpacked yet." Esther made a little grimace. "Look at the sunshine," she said. "There isn't a breath of wind, either. I think to-day that I could play from the men's tees." Hamel sighed as he returned to his place. "My good intentions are already half dissipated," he admitted. She laughed. "How can we attack the other half?" she asked. Gerald, who was also on his way to the sideboard, suddenly stopped. "Hullo!" he exclaimed, looking out of the window. "Who's going away this morning, I wonder? There's the Rolls-Royce at the door." Hamel, too, rose on
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