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Even as Miss Beresford was patting me consolingly on the arm and murmuring a few farewell words of sympathy which didn't go any too well with the twinkle in her eyes, I caught sight of captain Bullen perched on top of the companionway leading down from the main deck.

As he came down the companionway and passed Miss Beresford he made a heroic effort to twist his features into the semblance of a smile and managed to hold it for all of two seconds until he had passed her by, then got back to his glowering again.

If nothing else, I thought sourly, he would at least take Miss Beresford out of my hair.

Julius beresford, president and chief stockholder of the hart-mccormick mining federation, sat where he nearly always sat, not only now but on half a dozen previous cruises, at the top right-hand side of the captain's table, next to captain Bullen himself.

There are exceptions to every rule, and julius beresford was the exception to Bullen's rule that he couldn't abide any passenger, period.

Miss beresford regarded me thoughtfully for a moment, then bent to examine her hors d'oeuvres, showing the gleaming auburn hair cut in a bouffant style that looked as if it had been achieved with a garden rake and a pair of secateurs but had probably cost a fortune.

Even the very considerable sums of money earned by inveigling the properly respectful lower classes into viewing his stately home at two and six a time were making only a slight dent on the crushing burden of death duties, whereas an alliance with miss beresford would solve his difficulties for ever and ever.

Things were being complicated for the unfortunate duke by the fact that, though his intellect was bent on miss beresford, his attentions and eyes were for the most part on the extravagantly opulent charms-and undeniable beauty of the platinum blonde and often-divorced cinema actress who flanked him on the other side.

Ten minutes later, having drawn a complete blank in three of the four remaining suites, I found myself in the last of them, the big one on the port side, aft, belonging to julius beresford and his family.

I searched the cabin belonging to beresford and his wife-and by this time I was really searching, not just only for benson, but for any signs that he might have been there-but again a blank.

Miss susan beresford, I reflected, certainly did herself well in the way of clothes.

She sighed, closed the door and leaned against it, and I had to admit that any door, even the expensively panelled ones on the campari, looked twice the door with susan beresford draped against it.

White's eyes lit up as he caught sight of me, then clouded in disapproval when he saw susan beresford emerging through the doorway behind me.

While I was waiting, miss beresford gave me her smile again, the sweet one with too much malice in it for my liking.

Susan beresford had recrossed the cabin and was standing near, screwing a cigarette into a jade holder about a foot in length.