The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-13
KATE MEREDITH FINANCIER- By c c5TszEFE tnNE

swizzle- Stick Smith shortly, ''and wrig-
ged out Of 1t by the skin of my teeth. .
Rubber palaver?'
"oh sorry for inquirlns. l though,
that was what you came up for?
$50 1t was, and 1 started OFF from
the Coast with full intention Of carry
''Ah'' said Slade. thoughtfully.
believe I could guess"
"Guessing's dangerous. But l may as
been seeing the King OF okky." ,,,...
..Well. you've nerve. ! shouldn't
have cared for that job myself"
TT wasn't pleasant okky City Jars
ones sense of decency rather badly Just
now. Old Kallee's been going 1t extra
H fite''s private va crucflxion tree is thing
you don't like to think about"
"Fllthy old beast he Is.
Il see. And you got onto your old game me
of the pre-Smith days and tried 70 g Si,
royal self under the formal protectorate
of the British Empire? | thougnt yo VOW
dropped all that tommy-rot when you 50.
kicked-I mean when you turnsu Slausi
ana became known to fame as MT. Silitll.
Sink the past, of course. sink the past
II couldn't help going. got news l,,'. OF ns
French expedition In ,Okky S -, ~
British Foreign OFFICE in days gone by,
hut the old fires will relight sometimes.
Frenchmen in oklsy City, III trouble you
Slade and of eoure. with the O. G Iona f az
entes. So couldn't resist trying my own
hand with the Kalee. even though ~
hadn't anything at all up to MS weight
"H 81, a dozen cases of Heidsieck is the
nearest way to his royal ear, though |
hear that lately he's developed taste
for the BETTER years tre OF the vas fu fancy
touch OF Ba aue .u our Monk river man
call that hardly Legitimate business
you know. German champagne ana an,
they ought to be good enough for black
savage like Kallee. Dash 1t, what rights
would he see your"
before he killed his predecessor and got
the, Kings stool. and SO he's bit treer
with me than he is with most people pc 10
gether till you We're both blind speech
II wasn't. anyway" said tho older man
s my tale. The NsP Fren eng wasn't In it
He went to sleep before we whacked the
first ten bottles. and he was laid up With
fine dose Of fXer next aay et nere
an escrlbella for all the might, majesty
dominion and power of the British En-
pire. He's got ten small cannon UP there,
that, according to him; can quite - account count
him. and in the meanwhile the French
are very kind friends. They've given him
| a gramophone, and generals uniform,
they bring him the canoe load OF Win
chester repeaters he's asked for, holl Sign
! a treaty of allegiance to France"
had better take care. If any Of our Gov
eminent fellows catch him at that game.
they'll shoot 100 him first and inquire into
well. what he's going to do in the
matter don't exactly know You see.
the beggar had kallee's ear, and to tell
you the plain truth he had me deported.
again. he would have my skin off, and
stuff It with straw. and stick 1t In the
| road that leads to Malta, Nulla rs warm
along that It would be more healthy to
sIade e'i iaughe he'd 0S Il bet You footed 1T
| away"
here am no usn, eIde With Win oSei and
! tralnped out of Malla-Nulla. Il did say
Rubber to the King, and he did hear out
there and then With matchets to clear
/ push anu plant rubber vines TO SroW re-
! venue for himself. But he sells no land
| TO Englishmen. and I guess II another Of
the breed comes up yet awhile, kalleell
been In touch with the hush teegraph?'.
I ooh, heard that the usual vague rows
and horribles were going on in okky City,
| but didn't pay much attention to that
did hear, too, that Capple Image and the
| Mposo helped a rcd-headed man. who /
suppose was that young Carter of yours,
| IN some sort of q row at presumably
1 into the dates; the news must have trav-
! clled here In thirty hours, and We're a
| good two hundred miles from the Coast.
| the deuce the niggers do it. Some sort
| of ju-ju, ! suppose, but I never met a
| white. man yet who understood The
| trick"
did you hear anything about White
| woman stirring things up2"