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One of my men Henry who is too stupid to get into mischief a great recommendation by the way understands his business. I will ring and have him sent over to your rooms at once." He did so, and they sat in silence until the butler had come and gone. "We have been very successful with the Simiacine our scheme," said Jack suddenly. "Ah!"
He knew that this was now completely overgrown. The Simiacine Plateau was once more lost to all human knowledge. And up there alone amidst the clouds Guy Oscard was, as he himself tersely put it, "sticking to it." He had stuck to it to such good effect that the supply of fresh young Simiacine was daily increasing in bulk. Again, Victor Durnovo seemed to have regained his better self.
"So this," he said, "is the end of the Simiacine. It did not look like a tragedy when we went into it." "So far as I am concerned," replied Oscard, with quiet determination, "it certainly is the end of the Simiacine! I have had enough of it. I, for one, am not going to look for that Plateau again." "Nor I. I suppose it will be started as a limited liability company by a German in six months.
"I will oblige you whenever you are taken with the desire," answered Jack lightly; "Loango has been a very good friend to me. But I am afraid there is no choice. The doctor speaks very plain words about it. Besides, I am bound to go home." "To sell the Simiacine?" inquired Maurice. "Yes." "Have you the second crop with you?" "Yes." "And the trees have improved under cultivation?"
After a little pause he pointed to a chair. "Just sit down," he said. "I want to talk over this Simiacine business with you." Joseph squared his shoulders, and sat down with a face indicative of the gravest attention. Sitting thus he was no longer a servant, but a partner in the Simiacine.
Many of the most precious have lain unheeded for hundreds of years in barren plains, on inaccessible mountains, or beneath the wave, while others are thrown at the feet of savages who know no use for them. The man who had found the Simiacine was eager, restless, full of suspicion. To the others the scheme obviously presented itself in a different light.
The trees were now beginning to show the good result of pruning and a regular irrigation. Never had the leaves been so vigorous, never had the Simiacine trees borne such a bushy, luxuriant growth since the dim dark days of the Flood. Oscard relapsed into his old hunting ways.
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