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Mr. Newton's on his way back, Captain.

Hurry up with that, you two. Chop, chop.

You

all

right, lad?

So we're sailing, then?

Aye. Thanks be for that.

North.

I thought the bus route was south, sir. So it is, too, and that's where we

should be heading. Just a few days up the coast.

Well, just now I don't reckon these waters are safe for even one more day.

jump at your own shadow, Baines.

Well, how do you know they're not looking for us?

Who? You've got a minute, sir.

Someone you can take on is what we're up to back there.

That was Bulgaria.

This here is Turkey. And where we're headed is the province of Dubruja.

Now, that belongs to the Romanians.

So where's the danger?

Well, we'll be sailing back through Bulgarian waters, won't we? Both ways.

Look, the Russians don't like to be cheated.

They must know by now that the prince is alive and Borovitch is dead, and

they'll be looking for someone's blood for that anyway.

Thanks. Just a few days north of here, there's a cargo of prime tobacco just

sitting, waiting for a ship.

Now, that's the cargo that's worth having.

We can pick up one any time on the way home.

Bird in the hand.

Bird in the hand things.

Stand by to make sale.

Stand by to make sale.

Where are we headed then?

Just about there.

Well, I can't see no port.

Well, there isn't one, but it's the nearest one to Babadak.

Now, just north of here is the tobacco plant.

Now, normally they cart it down to Danube and then barge it down to Salina.

it appears that Danube is in flood.

So the tobacco's just sort of losing value.

All we have to do is to pick it up the next turn out and cart it over land.

Buying it yourself, then?

I shall make a fat profit.

How are you going to pay for it?

Our royal baggage.

Paid in gold.

Well, it'll take at least a couple of weeks and maybe more.

Well, just think of it as a little holiday.

You've got to get the feel of it, you see.

And every ship has her own ways, her own humors.

You've got to learn to recognize them, respect them, master them.

Not like she's a dog, though.

You can't go beating the bad habits out of her.

You've got to learn to coax her to do what you want.

So in the end, it looks like that's what she wanted to do all along.

You understand what I'm saying?

Yeah. Treat her like a sweetheart.

Oh, yes, you do that.

By the time you're a master, you'll have had a good marriage.

Better than most landlubbers, and that's a fact.

I reckon Mr. O 'Neill's still pretty cut up about his missus, huh?

You concentrate our mind in your course.

Mr. Arnold, you're two points off.

You don't really think we're still in trouble because of that caper with his

royal highness, do you?

I don't reckon to go meddling in politics.

There's nothing in it for the likes of us, and it don't pay.

This will be my office.

Rather smaller than Mr. O 'Neill's.

Of course.

Well, you haven't told me what you truly think, Mr. Dunwoody.

Oh, with all due respect to your brother, milady, particularly bearing in

his recent grievous loss, I fearlessly question whether this arrangement

you can work.

Why shouldn't it?

It disturbs me that so much of the accommodation would have to be shared.

your office.

Especially when you consider that the Fraser line is a public company, whereas

your... A brother's line is just a small family business.

I don't think he'd like to hear you say that.

Well, simply in the volume of trading, my lady, there is no comparison.

Well, even so, don't you think it's high time my brother and I stopped trying to

cut each other's throats and to help each other instead?

What I fear most is that you will find yourself helping him rather more than he

does you.

Even so, my brother's business is thriving, Mr Dunwoody. I hardly think

saddling ourselves to a lame horse.

Mission.

How

long

will you be gone, sir?

Oh, two days. Maybe two weeks.

I don't know.

Oh, Tom.

You might give those fishing clubs a looking over, see if there's any worth

hiring.

We'll need something to ferry the cargo back with, you know.

And keep your eyes peeled, eh?

A horse?

Horse? A nag?

A gigi? Horse?

Uh...

Say it in Russian.

I don't know it in Russian.

Giddy up, giddy up, giddy up, giddy up. Ho, ho, ho.

Well, if I can, so can you.

How far you say this here plantation is?

Oh,

about ten miles.

A bit further.

How do you reckon I'll get in the back of the ship, Pat Mule?

The carp should be back by tomorrow night.

Tell your master it's a pleasure to do business with him, eh?

There you go.

Comfortable? Not when I think of that track.

I didn't know you better. I'd say you were going soft.

Come on, then.

Yankee boodle, painted cow, riding

donkey, stuck a feather in his cap for garlic

macaroni. I don't know what there is to be so happy about.

Ah, but you don't know what I paid for that tobacco.

It's not every day that you can pick up a... That word there yesterday?

Haven't taken a wrong turning, have we?

There weren't no storms last night, neither.

I don't like it.

I got the same sort of feeling that I had...

Thank you.

What are we going to do?

Find Mr. and Eden, Captain Baines, that's what.

Don't know where they are.

Can't be too many tobacco plantations round here.

And look, I could be gone days, maybe weeks, but I want you to stay right

do you understand?

Yeah, right.

How are you feeling?

I think my head must be harder than yours.

I've been awake for some time.

Where are we?

I don't know.

Some sort of castle, I think.

Seen anybody?

No.

Well, we're alive.

I suppose that's something.

Well, try asking yourself why.

I mean, why would anybody want us?

Unless it's something to do with that business on the Taimok River, and I

you.

They've not carted us all the way back to Bulgaria.

Not unless we've been unconscious for two days.

Brigands.

That's what they are, you son.

Well, look like brigands to me.

Well, if they're brigands, why aren't we dead?

I don't know!

We're perfectly open to find out.

Right now.

First got to find out where we are. I've tried that.

Think of a way of getting out of here.

Here.

Come on.

I'm lighter than you.

We're in a tower, high up.

Some sort of tower.

Surely the window is too narrow.

Or do you intend to starve yourselves?

Futile, unless you have wings.

Any attempted escape will inevitably result in your deaths.

So...

Content yourselves to be my guest, gentlemen.

Do not rob me of my honor, for I shall bargain for your lives, not your

Who are you?

No one of note.

A functionary.

And in whose service?

That of my country, in whose aspirations you have so foolishly meddled.

Damn, I told you.

I don't know what you're talking...

No man's memory could be so short.

Because of you, Alexander still lives, a prince without a throne, without place

or purpose, except to become a rallying point for all the enemies of my master,

the Tsar.

That alone would be enough to earn you your punishment.

But you did more.

You caused an honest man to die in Alexander's place.

You.

You killed Borovitch, not me.

You forced him to take the prince's place?

No. He went willingly, believing you or whoever it was that told him that the

prince would not be harmed.

What is true depends on he who tells it.

And you have too much reason to lie, Mr. O 'Neill.

What are you going to do with this?

Punish you in a way all greedy men understand.

Greedy?

To have allowed me to entice you here so easily?

Yes, I think so.

Or do you still believe the Danube is in flood, Mr. Oneiden?

Think what Alexander has cost you. Your cargo, your gold, already gone, and that

but nothing to what is yet to be paid for your lives.

Think of it as a little holiday.

According to our embassy in Bucharest.

I tried to contact you earlier, ma 'am, but you were not to be found. So I

sought out Mr. Needham's nephew here.

What have you landed my brother in?

You misunderstand, ma 'am.

This isn't any of our doing, I assure you. But you can't explain how my uncle

came to be involved. When James sailed, he was bound for Bulgaria.

With none other than Prince Alexander aboard.

And if he'd come straight home, this would not have happened.

But he didn't.

He stayed in the area to trade entirely his own decision.

And is this kidnapping in some way connected with Prince Alexander and the

Russians? We don't know that.

It's possible, but we don't know it yet.

I realise what a shock this must be. What did the government propose to do?

In the circumstances I deeply fear, ma 'am, there's nothing Her Majesty's

government can do.

You mean you'll just abandon him?

Any intervention on the part of the government might be taken as an

that your brother's presence in the Black Sea was at our behest. But it was.

Oh, no, Lady Fogarty.

And any inference like that would not do. I cannot impress on you too strongly

how serious that would be.

We're talking of the spark that might lead to war.

What ransom are the kidnappers demanding?

£50 ,000.

Oh, what do they think James is?

Why don't they ask for the crown jewels as well? They've also imposed a time

limit. They demand payment by the end of next month.

Or? Or they threaten to kill both your uncle and his captain.

And knowing this, you tell me that the government will not help in any way.

It's a choice, Sir Gerald.

The government will give us the money. I must emphasise that at the time of his

capture, Mr. O 'Neill was on private business and not in our employment.

So far as we know, he's in the hands of brigands. The air is rife with them.

Now, if the government were to accept responsibility for all such

Then don't.

Don't even consider it, sir.

My God, if James can't rely on his country, thank God he can on his family.

As soon as we have further word from his kidnappers, you may be assured that you

will have it too.

I am, as I said, deeply sorry.

I still can't... can't believe that such a thing could really happen.

I wish it was all a bad dream.

It's a pity Uncle James wasn't more prudent than to get embroiled in someone

else's politics to begin with.

Is that all you can say?

Well, it's the truth, damn it.

Perhaps not the kindest moment to say so.

But it's still... still so unreal.

Prickens. They're people one any reads about.

Bulgaria, Romania, they're just names. Well, I could certainly wish they were

nearer. Even with one of my steamships, it would take three weeks to get there.

Three weeks?

But that means they've got to deliver the ransom by the end of next month.

We have only... We have 11 more days in which to find the money. Yes, we're all

well aware of that, Charlotte.

Well, I wasn't. Well, you are now.

Which hardly leaves enough time for you two to waste arguing.

Wouldn't it be quicker to cross Europe by train?

Take a steamer for the Black Sea from one of the Mediterranean ports. Wouldn't

that gain a few more days?

Very likely.

I'll ask Mr. Dunwoody to ascertain just how long it would take.

You sure the one that comes in with the food ain't armed?

Positive.

Now, it's the one that's armed at the back that we want to get just here.

I only hope that I can finish.

Give us it.

Tell me where it is.

Come on.

Come on. Now, what's the matter with you?

The grub's come. Look.

What's the matter with you?

Come on. Wake up. Come on.

For God's sake, what's the matter with you? Wake up, man.

I think he's ill. I think there's something wrong with him.

Come on. Wake up, man. For God's sake, say something.

I think he's sinking.

He needs help. I don't know.

Something's wrong with him, but he needs help. You savvy? He needs help.

I hope your next idea is better than that, because

that one damn nearly got us killed.

It doesn't matter how many times we do the thumb, the answer isn't going to

change. It's got to, Aunt Elizabeth.

I can't speak for Mr Dawkins, but I'll vouch that Mr Dunwoody has traced every

spare shilling I own.

If only we could communicate.

Try to negotiate. I mean, 50 ,000. If only they'd given us longer.

Sorry I'm late.

The Chamber of Commerce wished me to express their profound sympathy and

sincerest hopes for Uncle James' safe return.

Not one offer of help amongst all your business friends?

Mr. Browley has offered to lend a thousand.

Mr. Hartley a further 500.

Better than nothing.

Oh, and the Reverend Metcalfe is going to offer up special prayers on Sunday.

Have you managed to contact your mother yet?

No, she's left the cook's tour. No one seems to know where she is now.

Well, we still only have 26 ,500.

36 ,500.

Excuse me, pal.

Only alone, Aunt Elizabeth.

Still very generous.

No, not really.

But we needn't talk about the interest until Uncle James is home.

Oh, typical of you, Samuel.

Give with one hand and take back with the other.

I'm losing interest on that money. My heart bleeds for you, but not as much as

it does for my father.

If I wasn't concerned for him, I wouldn't be here. We still have £14 ,000

find and we only have six days before the emissary must leave.

Yes, well, I have been thinking about that problem.

One or two suggestions did occur to me, but of course if my advice isn't

welcome... Oh, don't be insufferable. Charlotte!

I thought you might consider selling off one or two of Uncle James' ships.

You and Elizabeth could dispose of some of your shares, say 10 ,000 or so.

Mine?

Yes, of course.

Well, I knew it wouldn't be a very popular suggestion, but I really can't

how else you can raise the money in the short time that's left.

After all, it is Uncle James' life we're talking about.

But that would lose you your majority holding again, my lady. Thank you, Mr

Dunwoody, I do realise that.

But unless you can suggest some other easily convertible asset... We might

work on the new steamer. No, that would lay over 200 men idle.

And besides, the bank would never agree to our diverting their money.

No, let's not waste any more time. Put the matter in hand, please, Mr Dunwoody.

Must it be as much as 10 ,000? And would you ask Mr Dawkins to come in, please?

I'm sorry.

Oh, I'll have to buy them back again eventually.

Somehow.

You wanted to see me, Lady Fogarty?

We still have to find a further £5 ,000, Mr Dawkins.

Now, since my brother is unable to act on his own behalf, we must ask you to do

so for him.

What we have decided...

is that you must sell off as many of my father's ships as is necessary to make

up that figure.

But I have the authority, ma 'am, not to start selling off ships. But I have.

May I remind you, Mr Dawkins, that I own 15 % of the Uniden line.

With all due respect, ma 'am, I hardly think even 15 % is... I'm sure you'd

agree, Mr Dawkins, that my brother wouldn't thank you for keeping his fleet

intact if that meant he was to be murdered for the want of 5 ,000 pounds.

But criminal charges could be brought. Dead men have no use for ships.

Only a short message.

Remember, it will be sent by cable.

But something to reassure your family you are still alive.

Something to encourage them to make every effort for your safe return.

And perhaps something also to prove the message is truly from you. A mention of

something known to you and them only.

How much is the ransom?

Enough to flatter you that your life should be held so dear.

Now see what such simple cooperation brings you.

There should be no need for us to meet again.

In a short time, you will either be released or shot.

In great hope of the former, I leave you now.

I'll make sure we do meet again.

Here!

We've got no matches!

Come on.

By the time we get through here, I will not wrap you in me climbing no chimney.

I'll do the climbing.

You come and dig.

It's in an area of woodland, I understand.

Just here.

Only 15 or 20 miles from Constanta.

So when you hand over the money, that's where my uncle will be released.

I only wish I could tell you.

One has to admit that that cable is our only proof they actually hold your

uncle. This was written by James, I'm sure of it.

At least it proves that he is.

He was when he wrote it.

Of course, it won't actually be me who hands over the money, will it? Why not?

Well, for the same reason that the government could not intervene earlier.

Perhaps you would be good enough to tell me just who will be handing over the

money. Well, normally... Well, that's to say, normally one would expect some

representative of the family.

Oh, I see.

So it seems it must be one of us.

Oh, no, no, no, no.

No, I couldn't possibly... I couldn't possibly just leave the business.

How long?

A month at least. A month?

Well, no, no, no. It's out of the question.

Well, then I shall go. No.

It'll have to be me.

Oh, but then let me come with you, please.

But this is madness.

Two ladies.

Please forgive me, but two ladies alone, defenseless, going to... Oh, it's out

of the question. We are quite capable of protecting ourselves, though. Oh, in

the normal way of things, no doubt. We don't have a great deal of choice.

Oh, very well, then. I'll go, damn it. Thank you, Samuel. I shall be very glad

of your company.

And I think it would be better if you were to stay at home. Why?

Because, quite frankly, I don't think you'd find the journey particularly

enjoyable for obvious reasons.

And neither would I.

But we could save as much as ten hours, my lady, if you'd be prepared to make a

change at Dole here in the early hours of Wednesday morning.

How early?

The timetable indicates a night train from Bressancombe passing through at two

hours after midnight.

Well, if it saves ten hours, we'll do it.

You must then change at Chalons, and yet again I regret my lady at Macomb for

Turin. Now, there you board the train for Genoa, and at Noviliguri, just here,

you'll be in time to catch a northbound express to Milan.

Northbound? Where are you trying to take us to, Mr Dunwoody?

Oh, to Rimini, sir.

That's where Captain Crane will be waiting for you.

According to my calculations, by the time we get to Rimini, we shall have

on a dozen different trains.

A dozen. Should we be waiting as long as this?

It's only ten minutes late.

So far.

I think if James ever went down with

his ship, somehow I could make sense of that.

Not that it would make it any easier to bear, but at least it would have a

certain likeness to him, but not this.

If there's any natural justice, not this.

We'll get there in time.

Let's eat that food before they come and take it away. It ain't no good getting

hungry. Hold on.

I'm almost through.

Here, hold on. Hold on.

and they can hear that.

Look, if they hear that, they'll be back.

Listen, you mightn't care what happens to you no more. You've got nothing to

lose, but I still like breathing.

What can you see?

God.

It's big black.

It's a space.

Who's there?

Where are you?

Tom!

There you go.

How in the blue blazes did you get there?

Landfall in two hours.

Oh, and about tomorrow morning, Aunt Elizabeth.

I really must insist that you let me take the money and deliver it alone.

There's no knowing what might happen. I don't intend for you to take any

unnecessary risks.

Thank you, Samuel, but there's no need for you to worry.

When I was in Turkey, Daniel taught me how to shoot.

And I'm very good.

I'll have you know.

A friend's bag.

Food. Food. And now...

Quick, Richard, come on!

Hands on deck, Mr. Baines.

There is a cross marking a cove. That is where his ship is.

By the time you get there, we will have released him, and he will be aboard.

Tell me, sir, is he really worth it?

We think so.

Then tell him.

I am glad to have known him.

Such a much -loved man.

Crane says we'll be there by night.

Pity Charlotte couldn't have been with us now.

Oh, I bear her no ill will, Aunt Elizabeth.

Just it was futile to continue living together as man and wife.

Yes, I know.

I noticed James.

There's a lot to be said for family loyalty.

Janine, sir, look.

How good. How good to see you.

Now, what the devil are you doing all the way out here?

Where did you get it?

We persuaded Mr. Dawkins to sell four of your ships.

Assign your length, 10 ,000.

Aren't Elizabeth still the large parcel of shares?

I'm Roy.

You're alive?

You mean we've gone through all that for nothing?

For what, Captain Baines?

We. have just escaped.

You have paid £50 ,000 while we were getting

out for nothing.

James, we weren't to know that.

You're surely not going to blame us for trying to save your life.

Nonsense!

£50 ,000!

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