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On his accession to the throne Suleiman placed the government of Egypt in the hands of Assama ibn Yazid, with the title of agent-general of finances.
On the last occasion an Agent-General for one of the great Colonies had sat next her at dinner. Then there was her friend Mrs. Penderby, whose husband gathered enormous wealth in some mysterious way in Mark Lane. Why should she not go up to London and open a campaign on Dick's behalf, secure him an appointment, and come back flourishing it before his dazzled and delighted eyes?
'This place, Blaauwildebeestefontein, he used to say, 'is among the Zoutpansberg mountains, and as far as I can see, not above ninety miles from the railroad. It looks from the map a well-watered country, and the Agent-General in London told me it was healthy or I wouldn't have taken the job.
In their rear, carrying the lunch-basket, marched the Agent-General and Holford the hired chauffeur. 'I say, said the Agent-General, nodding at the darkened khaki backs. 'If that's what we've got to depend on in event of war they're a broken reed. They ran like hares ran like hares, I tell you. 'And you? I asked. 'Oh, I just sauntered back over the bridge and stopped the traffic that end.
'What? growled Penfentenyou. 'Nothing, said the Agent-General, squeezing my hand affectionately. 'Only we have just found out that we are brothers. 'Exactly, said Mr. Lingnam. 'That's what I've been trying to lead up to. We're all brothers. D'you realise that fifteen years ago such a conversation as we're having would have been unthinkable? The Empire wouldn't have been ripe for it.
"The document," Trent said, "is signed by the King and witnessed by Captain Francis, who is Agent-General out here, or something of the sort, for the English Government. It was no gift and don't you think it, but a piece of hard bartering. Forty bearers carried our presents to Bekwando and it took us three months to get through. There is enough in it to make us both millionaires.
Lingnam in pyjamas, and he talked to me Pan-Imperially for half-an-hour before his bath. Later, the Agent-General said he had letters to write, and Penfentenyou invented a Cabinet crisis in his adored Dominion which would keep him busy with codes and cables all the forenoon. But I said firmly, 'Mr. Lingnam wishes to see a little of the country round here. You are coming with us in your own car.
I think that if they will study the last immigration ordinance enacted by the Governor of Trinidad, June 24, 1870, and the report of the Agent-General of Immigrants for the year ending September 30, 1869, their fears will be set at rest as far as this colony is concerned.
We stood on the pavement, before Elemental Man calling on Elemental Powers to condemn and incinerate Creation. 'Well, hadn't we better be getting back? said the Agent-General. 'Look out! I remarked casually. 'Those bonnet-boxes are full of bees still! 'Are they? said the livid Mr. Lingnam, and tilted them over with the late Mr. Bellamy's large boots.
"But, my dear fool," Penfentenyou almost wept, "do you pretend that these banana-fingered amateurs at home are grown up?" "You poor, serious, pagan man," I retorted, "if you take 'em that way, you'll wreck your Great Idea." "Will you take him to Lord Lundie's to-morrow?" said the Agent-General promptly. "I suppose I must," I said, "if you won't." "Not me!
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