Putnam patriot., 1909-08-20
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eepvrieht. 1908. by Dodd. Mead
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 sslsad. ed nothing is taken away frui.
 here exc 1. h tbe conlpany's chess.
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 fbieves. T4ey Iaay Kill people orras
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 lepe u,e 3nd in ans event. aFe thes
 n, 1 part Of the great earporatlonz
 fheT haze their share ia the working
 If fhe alinas and fin the profits MT
 wvekhal51e and MF. Skaegs were hon=
 esf aIJH taea. and they have been
 inst as honest in return
 -I shaaIG think they'd be terribly
 tempted s,id Lady Agnes. "rhes
 le,k so n.rete hetlly poor
 M iztle. said BaWleS. there are
 fut faur ,sHar meg or the Island =nr-
 self and fire thfee Ensl'samen wha o,,= sr.ie fhe aaHk There isat a Faaef
 man. wens.a CT child among the na. fiYes This Is ftrnly lapa af rich mn I't.e safeeintendeHt If the mines ts 1 white u8a-a German aud the lire fe=e1se1 gre Boers Thes work ea sh4re5. iH~t es The natives 1a. and Slre even uupre. think The clerical fra sari. ri.z. !zl.e.#e Vser. hnt i.n Etc f0sa here before you eaide. iHaiileiua fHo Greeks. Being part owners. tue natives have decided that fca 'i9a#s pt#stHufe days vare The= rsav tlnfnseivas accar,l ingiy. as 1t were. No one works after midday sir
 T say wouldn't this be a paradise for the English workingman said peppingkam. That's the kind of dsy's labor they'd like Do you mean te say that these fellows trudge eight niles to Uork every morning and back again at noon
 certainly not, sir. They ride their thoroughbred horses to work and ride them back again"
 You take my breath away" said the other. lapsing into q stunned silence.
 The road had become so steep and laborious by this time that Bowles was very glad to foreeo the pleasure of talking He fell back with Mir Saunders and proceeded to give the inauisitive iawyerss clerk all the late news of the island.
 The inhabitants of Japat had been prompt to protect themselves in a le- gal sense. They han- engaged the serv- lees of eminent solicitors in London. who were to represent them fn tAe final settlement of the estate. London was to be the battle-ground in the coming conflict. A committee of three had journeyed to England to put the matter in the hands of these lawyers and were now returning to the island with representa- tive of the firm. who was coming out to stand guard. so to speak Eon Blitz, the German superin- tendent. was the master mind in the native contingent The absent com mittee was composed of Ben Adj. Alb dallah Ben Sabbxt and Rasula. the Arafat lawyer. They were truly wise men from the east-old. shrewd. crafty and begotten of Mohammed.
 The mines continued to be operated as usual pending the arrival of the ex- ecutors' representative. who. as We know was now on the ground in the person of Thomas Saunders. The fact that he also served as legal adviser to Lady Deppingham was not of suff1- cient moment to disturb the arrange merlts on either side.
 As for the American heir, Robert Browne. he had not yet arrived. He was coming by steamer from the,west. according to report. and was probably on the Boswell Sumatra te Madagas- ear, due eff Arataf in tive or three days.
 ~The islanders" said Mir. Bowles, lighting cigarette, '-it looks to me, have all the best of the situation They get the property whether they marry or not. while the original bene- hciaries have to marry each other ser get of the island at the end ef the year Most of the islanders haue got tnree or four wives already"
 You mean to say that they can have as many wives as they choose demanded Saunders. wrinkiing fas brow.
 Yes, just so long as they dons Choose anybody else's-'
 Ny worde'
 "Eh?" gueried Bowies. arousins himself.
 didn't say anything" retorted saunders. looking up into the treetops-
 Standing out against the sky fully | niie ahead was the home 10 which 1aeF were going. The chateau. beau nful as a picture. lifted itself like | oream castle above all that was earth Y and sordid It smiled down from 'n lofty terrace and giistened in the sanset glow like the jewel that had oeea its godmother.
 Acoosding to its own records. the ehatean. fashioned quite closely after z famous structure in France. was de sisned and built by La Marche. the i'll la'ed French architect who was lost q sea in the wreck of the Vendome- 4aree years and more than f1oo.oo- Q make ii seem more prodigious. near 7 isuno000 francs-were consumed in 'ss building.
 Apartments fit for king aboupded- saits which took one back to the lux af'es of Marie Antoinette were com non Banquet halls. bathrooms. recep- ''so halls, chapel and even crypt ~ese to be found if one undertook 'oyase of discovery. iord and Lady Deppingham. being 1ls' m the field. at once proceeded fo ee1lse themselves Ia the choicest rooms
 Henry VI. suit. which looked ouf - ,he sea and the town as well II Aaid that Wyckholme slept there 'sne. while Skagzs looked in perhaps