The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-13

Got into very ugly hole eatf
Swizzle-SticS Smith shortly "and wris
Rubber paaver2'
"N0."
OH sorry FOR inquiries ] though,
thet was what you came .p forge
so fl was. and 7 started or from
the Coast with full intention Of carry
ing out O'Neiu and craven s. business
BQt got LED of on an ia tr z.l,..
believe 7 could guess"
"Guessing's dangernus but 7 may AS
well own up to You ltH ihAt I've
been seeing the King % Okky'
"WeH. you've nerve. shonldn't
1T wasn't pleasant OllSy city jars
one's sense ~ dee-rov rather badly just
now. Old Kauee's been going Do extra
strong on human -acrihces. you know
His private cruclGNion tree Is thing
you don't ike 10 mink about
"Flthy ola beast pc Is.
BIT he's sac strongest man here
y see. And you got onto yonr ola game
him to put ,he Ckky country aud his
royal self under the formal protectcrai-
OF the British Empire? / thought Iot
dropped al that t0mmy-rot when you soy
Kicked mean when you turned Trad p
and became known TO fame as Mr.. smith
SINK the past ot course, slrA inc past
Il couldn't h.p going. got ncws OF q
French expedition fin Okky city OF
course I've boon lamnahly treated nN tile
British Forcien once In days gone hv,
but the old aI.s viii relieht some times
Frenchmen iu Okay city. I'll trouble }on
Slade. and " coure, with the usual a.-
compainmeut TimcO Dauaos 81 coua YER
entcs. So coil-n resist trying my pNn
hand with Oh. Nallee even though F
hadn't anytllns at all Up 10 MS weight
a am introductory dash.
"Haf dozen oases Of Hedseck is tine
nearest way to -is royal ear. though /
hear that lately he's developed taste
IIHHn.
Ihat quite true II was fancy
touch Of Burs0luc. our Monk River man.
7 call that hardly Legitimate business
you know. German champagne and an
gostUra are good enough for nae, ana
they ought to D.. GOOD enough for a black
savage like ka.ec. Dash IT., what right $
lac to a palate
Would he see your"
well. OF course I've known him since
before he killed his predecessor and got
the Kings stool. and 50 he's bit treer
with me than la is with most people"
Sade nodded And you drank to-
Eether till yo4 were both blind speech
Il wasn't anyway" said the older man
shortly r Kept my head and stuck 10
my tale. The trenchmau WASH ia it,
lie went o. sleep before we Whacked the
nrSt ten bottles, and ne was laid up with
q fine dos ar fever next day. bur there
was no shifting kallee. He doesn't care
am escribeIa for an the might. majesty
dominion and power OF the british Em-
plre- Tie got ten small cannon up there
mat according 10 him. can quite account
tot Hrta4 hlltiu IT Il comes 70 worry
MIN. and in tho meanwhile the French
are very kind friends. They've given him
Eramophone. and a generals uniform.
ana an lce-uahiuE machine, and when
tnty bring Dim the canoe load OF VIM
chester repeat.re he's asked for. he'll sign
= trcatY OF aIegiance to France
arms or preoision, The trenchman
nad better take care. II amy Of our Gov
erhmcnt fellows catch him at that eame.
fqry j suoot lim first and inquire into
We'll what hos going 20 do i'm the
matter, 3 don exactly know. You SEQ.
tAe DeGgar had kallee's ear. and 10 tell
you t"e pltln truth he had me deportcd.
INallec sad THAT 10 he laid hands on me
hsaln Ire would have my skin off. ana
road that leads 70 MALTA Nulla as a warm
u.t 10 iAe next Engishman that came
;Siong tlat i would be more healthy 20
Nsep inside iis own marches"
away"
What tao devil else could DO? And
here ana I. n) forwarder with o NELL and
trampfd oui Of Malla-Nulla. did say
A'ub"ei 10 the King. and he did hear out
eiu eel on g. couple of hundred slaves
mere ana then With matcncts 20 clear
hdSn aug plant rubber vines 10 grow re-
t"iet ioi himself But he sells no land
70 Lhsiishin. n, and guess II another OF
&c uitcd comes up yet awhile, Kallee' %
plant hlu. Ey the way. SIade havo Won
Dccn 20 touch with the bush telegraph o..
ON. l.url that the usual vague rows
ana Aotrb-cs were going on In Okky city.
D-t 4 uldu pay much attention to- that.
qua hear. TOO. that Capple Image and The
~ p1sp helped rcd-headed man who
suppose was tlat young Carter OF yours
~ some sort OF q row at presumably
Mtiia Nulla. took the trouble 70 g0
into the dates. the news must have trav-
cllad mere lu thirty hours. and We re- q
4ood Two hundred miles from the Coast.
- Us bit marvellous ! wonder how
Nle deuce the uigecrs DO g. Some sort
oi J4-J4. suppose. but 7 never met "a
trick
iii you hear anything about a white
woman stirring things up?"