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106 Valentino
the side. As he too required both hands free the case was handed to a sailor. The storm grew wilder, the wind more biting and their bodies were chafed pitilessly by their sodden clothes.
It proved impossible to board the liner. The waves would have smashed the boat against the great ship's sides. They returned to Cherbourg in a state of near collapse.
After seeing the luggage unloaded and returned to the customs shed Rodolpho and Natacha trudged to a small commercial hotel in the town. It was full. Unable to take one step farther they spent the remainder of the night in the hotel's public room amid withered palms and commercial travellers' cigarette ends. The next morning the storm had abated. There was no sign of the Leviathan.
They took a room for the day at a larger, more comfortable hotel and rested there until evening. Another ship, the President Adams, called en route to Southampton and they secured berths on it. They sailed out to this ship on a sea calm and romantically silvered by the moon, a clear sky sparkling with stars above them. But they were in no mood to appreciate its romantic grandeur, for they were still tired and worried lest missing the Leviathan had affected a vital business deal.
The moment they arrived in London they contacted Williams. What important business had prompted his urgent summons? Important business? Williams said there was none. He had merely planned a party aboard the liner, for which he had hired an orchestra and it would have been so nice if they had been able to attend.
Two days later they sailed for America.