Roscoff

And that was actually true.

[laughs] So we'd just booked, um, a trip over to Roscoff in France, which is where, um, the head office is based.

We sort of debated on how we were gonna get there, and we ended up booking a Brittany Ferries to do it, which might seem a little bit, um, controversial.

We're paying them money to get on this sort of boat.

And it was just, on his part, it was perfect timing.

So he told, uh, he told me, "We're gonna end it, but I do need to contact the Irish government over the weekend to give them, or today, to give them notice.

Please do not leak this news, um, until Monday, which is when this news will become public." And we were going to Roscoff on Monday, so that- [laughs] We were actually going to France on the day that he actually officially ended it.

Wow.

The riding officer, Mr. Luke, had threatened us with them more than once.

I knew, moreover, that a run of goods was contemplated, and without questions of mine, it did not become a parish priest in those days to know too much, it had reached my ears that Lacadem was himself in Roscoff bargaining for the freight.

But we had all learnt confidence in him by this time.

His increasing bodily weakness never seemed to affect his cleverness and resource, and no doubt occurred to me that he would contrive to checkmate this new move of the riding officers.

So we radioed them and said, oh, yes, we are five on board.

We are sailing to Roscoff from Ponte Delgado.

We said, oh, yes, we're two on board.

We're sailing to Falmouth from Ponte Delgado.