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Gentlemen Adventurers : Chapter Four : The Middle East, 1840

Session 017: Thieves and Pirates, the roads to Persia, April 1840

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The Party

ArnoldTodgersHamelton - DaveF
GladstoneArchiboldThynne - TimE
LadyElsbethMacBeth - CathyE
WallaceTiffinSmythe - PeteN

Events

Leaving the marharini and her new found support to march on Kathmandu, and more importantly LeiutenantJamesOutram leading the hunt for tp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki[/Dost Mohammed]? Dost Mohammed], the party travel in comfort and style back to Lucknow, where PauloDiAvitabile? leaves them, and they make their way back to Bengal. Resting in Todgers palace the party catch up with affairs as their main and orders finally catch up with them. In the weeks while the Victoriana sails around the coast to pick them up, Gladstone delivers his dispatches and is "asked" if he would care to divert his ship to investigate reports of events relating to the representative there one [James Brooke] who appears to have upset the Sultan of Brunei. This is a long way out of the way and the part decide that it would put paid to their chances of being home by Christmas - and being entertained in Cawdor by Lady Elsbeth. Glasdtone politely refuses and is recommended back to london for R&R for his gammy leg. Todgers busies himself with setting up The Bengal and Empire Railway company, with permissions granted into Peshawar, Kathmandu and Dorje Ling he invites investors from the Calcutta, Begal and European exchanges to buy shares. Matre's letters finally catch up with Lady Elsbeth. A series of ever more strident missives about decorum and a womans proper place are delivered by an ernest solicitor under insturction to deliver them to Lady Elsbeth personally.. who pursues her for a week before she finally relents. The upshot of 5 pages of world class approbrium is that Lady Elsbeth is to have her allowance cut off unless she is married to a proper gentleman before Christmas. Discussing this terrible connundrum with the party she fails to notice Wallace nearly failing to loose his manly reserve. Finally after much prompting fromTodgers and Gladstone Wallaces' affection for Elsbeth is revealed. With a (very valuable if rather large) ring thrust into his hand by Hamilton Wallace drops to his knee and hesiitatingly declares his love before asking for Lady Elsbeth's hand in marriage. In her usual slightly off hand way she declares 'oh well al-right then' professing pleasant surprise as the tales of derring-do and single flowers left outside tents are told.. Hamilton holds a grand celebratory party and instantly writes an announcement in the Times.


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