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I'm going home," said the Agent-General, and departed. I am glad that I am no colony's Agent-General. Penfentenyou continued to argue about naval contributions till 1.15 A.M., though I was victor from the first. At ten o'clock I got him and his correspondence into the motor, and he had the decency to ask whether he had been unpolished over-night. I replied that I waited an apology.
But with Penfentenyou behind him he had worked; for he told us that Lord Lundie the Law Lord was the final authority on the legal and constitutional aspects of the Great Idea, and to him it must be referred. "Good Heavens alive!" thundered Penfentenyou. "I told you to get that settled last Christmas." "It was the middle of the house-party season," said the Agent-General mildly.
That he was chased to my door by his own Agent-General in a motor; that they turned my study into a Cabinet Meeting which I was not invited to attend; that the local telegraph all but broke down beneath the strain of hundred word coded cables; and that I practically broke into the house of a stranger to get him telephonic facilities on a Sunday, are things I overlook.
Deborah rolled out in drenched lumps into the swilling gutter. There was a muffled shriek at the window where Mrs. Bellamy gesticulated. 'It's all right. I've paid for them, said Mr. Lingnam. He dumped out the last dregs like mould from a pot-bound flower-pot. 'What? Are you going to take 'em home with you? said the Agent-General. 'No! He passed a wet hand over his streaky forehead.
Here is a woman, purblind, decrepit, looking sixty years old at least, and, by some incomprehensible series of mistakes, she has found her way out here as a "single girl!" What was the Agent-General in London about, and what could the Dispatching Officer have been thinking of, when they let this ancient cripple pass them?
With a wild ping of joy the latter made for me, and I retired promptly into a dark corner of the verandah, swearing horribly, but internally, and fought them. Mr. Hudson, Agent-general, and Mr. Cockshut, Agent for the Ogowe, walk up and down the beach in front, doubtless talking cargo, apparently unconscious of mosquitoes; but by and by, while we are having dinner, they get their share.
No expectations, indeed, were then formed from renewing a direct application to the French Regicides through the agent-general for the humiliation of sovereigns. At length a step was taken in degradation which even went lower than all the rest. Deficient in merits of our own, a mediator was to be sought, and we looked for that mediator at Berlin!
The Gaboon trade is chronicled by John Barbot, Agent-General of the French West African Company, "Description of the Coast of South Guinea," Churchill, vol. v. book iv. chap. 9; and the chief items were, and still are, ivory and beeswax. Of the former, 90,000 lbs. may be exported when the home prices are good, and sometimes the total has reached 100 tons.
There is thorough provision as far as the law can provide for the Coolies in case of sickness. One of these officers, the Inspector, is always on the move, and daily visits, without warning, one or more estates, reporting every week to the Agent-General.
You won't have to do it more than once. 'What's he suffering from? 'The Empire. He's pretty nearly cured us all of Imperialism at home. P'raps he'll cure you. 'Very good. What am I to do with him? 'Don't you worry, said Penfentenyou. 'He'll do it. And when Mr. Lingnam appeared half-an-hour later with the Agent-General for Penfentenyou's Dominion, he did just that.
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