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In the foggy China seas he thought a great deal of Nurkeed, and, when Elsass-Lothringen steamers lay in port with the Spicheren, inquired after him and found he had gone to England via the Cape, on the Gravelotte. Pambe came to England on the Worth. The Spicheren met her by the Nore Light. Nurkeed was going out with the Spicheren to the Calicut coast.
From this cross-road he could see the railway, where a line of freight-cars, drawn by a puffing locomotive, was passing cars of all colours, marked on one end "Elsass-Lothringen," on the other "Alsace-Lorraine."
But Pambe Serang has been hanged by the neck till he is dead, and Nurkeed is dead also. Three years ago, when the Elsass-Lothringen steamer Saarbruck was coaling at Aden and the weather was very hot indeed, Nurkeed, the big fat Zanzibar stoker who fed the second right furnace thirty feet down in the hold, got leave to go ashore.
In order to abbreviate the détour to diplomacy, I applied to a Rhenish government, that of Aachen, where the course could be gone through in two years, whereas in the "old" provinces at least three years were required. I can well imagine that in making the appointments to the Rhenish Governing Board in 1816 the same procedure was adopted as at the organization of Elsass-Lothringen in 1871.
Gunterson had now for almost two years been in charge of the United States business of the Elsass-Lothringen on a loss ratio so surprisingly satisfactory that he himself was absolutely at a loss to explain it. For the first time in a considerable period he felt himself to be in a strong strategic position, and he received Mr.
Gunterson had at last, in the Elsass-Lothringen, found almost what he had always been seeking; his company gave him an entirely free hand, a highly desirable thing for an underwriting manager, and he did not know whether he should ever care about looking for anything else. At the psychological moment he nonchalantly displayed to Mr.
We've got to do something pretty quick. Now, how will we get at Gunterson? He don't know us." "And a blame good thing he don't," said McCoy, with perfect frankness. "A swell chance we'd have of landing the Guardian if we'd had the Elsass-Lothringen! There's no use of talking we've been writing too freely. We must cut out the skates. Now, let's get together and land Gunterson."
Wintermuth's interested gaze his twenty-two per cent loss ratio for the Elsass-Lothringen, but in the next breath, recalling a few recent preliminary tremors unpleasantly suggestive of other catastrophes through which he had passed, and not to overlook a link in his entangling chain, he stated that after all, though, he was an American, and intimated that as such he sometimes felt he would a little rather devote himself to the interests of an American underwriting institution.
Not only that, but to be so efficient in hate that even inscriptions on tombstones may no longer be written in French? Alsace-Lorraine is to be literally Elsass-Lothringen to the last detail. The truth of the matter is that the Alsatians greeted the French as deliverers and were depressed when they fell back.
Good-will to England and to the Latin peoples, hostility to the Power which had torn Elsass-Lothringen from France such was the policy of Gambetta. All hope of a war of revenge proved to be futile; and he himself fell from power on January 26, 1882 . The year to which he looked forward with high hopes proved to be singularly fatal to the foes of Germany.
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