The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-06

wished to spare myself those regrets, /
saw to 1t that there was nothing more
deadly about the place than trado guns.
and you wouldn't catch mo loosing OH
one OF those, however drunk might be.
regret to say the King didn't continue
to carry his liquor like gentleman after
you'd left: he grew quarrelsome; ano
finally / had to pull him UP with some
sharpness. Then came the ulumatuin.
He said I should find the roads stopped
airoady--the old scoundrel had been play
Ing me like trout, 1t seems, TIL every
thing had been got ready. and No toid
me that as fine for your lese-inajeste ne
should help himself to tho contents OK ZIG
factory as they stood.
But you headed him off there sir, at
any rate
swzzle-stlck Smith chuckled. we'll, 1
haven't been on this Coast for twenty
five years without knowing a thing or
two. told the RIrg was rather glad
, TO hear him say that because 1t showed
that prophecy made a year ago was
now going to be fulfilled He asked what
1t was. / spouted to him
Maecenas Atavis edite iosibus
O ct praesidium ct duce decus meum.
Stunt. quos curriculo pulverem Olympicum
Conlegisse juvat,
as the first thing that camo into my
head, and fine pompous lines they are, as
you'd remember If you'd ever been to
public school. which you haven't"
i've written out all Horace twenty
times over In impositions and know the
bulk by heart, but I can't say l ever
got taste for constituting it
We'll. we won't argue out the value
OF a classical education just now Any
way the King OF okky was impressed.
OF course, he twigged the stuff was not
English, or Okky, or Kroo. or Arabic,
or any of the tongues hereabouts. He
asked what 1t was. / said 1t was a
priests tongue He asked what the WORDS
meant / romanced then and told him
they prophesied that the factory wouio
be looted by king who had made him
self king-the old scoundrel was born
a slave, you'll remember, and made the
throne vacant by killing his predecessor
and that two days afterwards new ana
very curious sort of Ju-ju would be put
on that king who would thereupon die
q new and very painful sort of death
"RIpping!" said Carter.
"The meeting broke up in confusion
just about then, because his soldiers
down below began to run amuck among
our boys, and the King heard the row
and went for me. However I'd my
big lead tobacco box handy, and l wiped
him over the head with that. and as
the boys below were frightened, and had
got our surf-boat ready for launching.
/ saw that they intended to quit, what
ever I might say, and didn't see the
force of holding the fort here alone. SO
I went to sea with them. and spent the
evening preaching them a long sermon on
the vice of cowardce. l hadn't much
faith that the King would be fool enough
hIrt n
you can never be sure which way the
African brain will twist. And here you
sees the factory untouched
"When Mr. n. gets report on this,
sir, fancy you'll have letter you VIII
like
Maybe. But I shant wear myself out
expecting 1t Look here'-Mr. Smith pro-
duced a letter from the breast pocket
OF his stained pyjamas-'cam in just
after you'd left. Sent by canoe and spe-
cial runner from Our factory on the
Monk River. Agent there says he wants
to charge me seven pound ten for for
wardng my mail. II that's x. o'Neilis
idea of running a business economically,
l wish he'd come out to the Coast here
and find a way of making profits to cor
respond"
Carter had shrewd suspicion that If
MIR. K had ordered an expenditure of
seven pounds ten shilling sterling over
the forwarding of letter, 1t contained
an idea which that very astute business
man was sure would produce at least
seventy pounds in the near future. But
he did not irritate his superior by men
tloning this aloud. Instead he asked,
amy instructions for me, sir?'
We'll, yes. First of all, there is a
direct one. X. says, AS Mr. Carter
seems a good hand at collecting native
curios 1 should be glad If he would get
me some ivory war horns. | want q
row Of them on my drawing-room wall.
So, young man, you had better get hold
of some escribelos and your carving
tools and set to work.
II don't suppose" said Garter shortly,
"to start taxing curios for Mr.. X. A
man like that would spot them at once.
But I'll send my model horn, and see to
it he has some other good specimens of
the real thing"
"As you like. Well, the letter goes on
TO advise US that the next thing America
and France and Great Britain are going
to gamble over rubber. Not collected
! wild rubber you understand, but rubber
estates. where the vines can be planted
and cultivated. KS evidently going in
| for company promoting, and as pre-
! liminary he instructs NE to get options
| OF suitable territory. He's got an idea
that an uncleared estate on the Coast
here, which could grow rubber II it had
the chance, can be bought at the rate
of case of gin per thousand acres; and
IL you've a fancy for untouched bush,
and a doubtful title, daresay that is
So
But ono can get clear title, sup
pose. IL one takes the trouble?h
Mr.. Smiths pipe finally refused even
TO bubble, SO he started to clean out
its more obvious horrors into Carriers
wash basin. lie went on between the
throes OF this nice observation-disclosures
who You mean by one II you're hint.
ing at yourself, have no doubt you
could manage 1t, because-your very
painstaking young man, and I'm sure
you see yourself as n partner of X.
o'Neill already. Isn't that so?"
That might do when I'm ready, SIR,
said Carter, laughing. unless see
something better in the meantime. But
t as q point of fact, [ wasn't setting VI
myself as a man to see through the tan.
gle OF African land transfer"
III You We're referring to me,
shouldn't recommend you to bet on tht
result, unless the odds are big on YOU
side. And mark you. Two been dabblnl
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