At King's Thursday one morning, Paul is shocked to see a bearded, but very familiar red-haired man proceeding into Margot's study. It is, of course, Captain Grimes. As he tells Peter and Paul later, over a cocktail, he faked his suicide and fled to London, where one day, in a pub, his meager funds nearly exhausted, he is recognized by a man he knew in Ireland. Coincidentally, this man works for Mrs. Beste-Chetwynde's South American "places of entertainment," but is in England hoping to recruit some help and had Grimes in mind for a job. Grimes has, therefore, come to Mrs. Beste-Chetwynde for an interview. Of course, Grimes' luck being what it is, he is hired.
Grimes asks after Dr. Fagan from whom Paul has recently had a letter. Unfortunately for the.....
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