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"Now, if you were in New York and had a hundred thousand dollars of another man's money, and wanted to relax you would come here to Equatoria, and put up with Celestino Rey. To all appearances, The Pleiad is a hotel, but in reality it's just a club for those who have taken the short cut to fortune the direct and amiable way of loot.
"As an acknowledged resource of the government, I suppose it is rather hard to see me at this particular moment in the history of Equatoria as carrying anything so simple as a friendly token." "You are very absorbing to me, Mr. Bedient," the Señor said delicately. "An old man may express his fondness.... I am glad The Pleiad pleases you.
The matter has nothing to do with Equatoria, the present unrest, nor with any relation of his or mine to the Island or to The Pleiad. You can make it possible for me to see him at once." "Unfortunately, I cannot. My province in The Pleiad is to cut down tension to a minimum. So many gentlemen present are of a highly nervous temperament.
"Don't mistake me, Señor Rey," he added. "The man I wish to talk with can only prosper for my coming." "Frequently it happens that the one searched for in Equatoria is the last found," the Spaniard observed. Linen, silver, crystal and candle-radiance were superbly blended upon the small round table between them. Rey, as a talker, was artful and inspiriting.
Only a half-day in New York on the way down to Equatoria, or the alternative of waiting over a ship, meaning eight days later with Captain Carreras. Bedient could not bring his mind to the latter delay at this stage of the journey, though the metropolis called to him amazingly. Here he had been born; and here was the setting of many early memories, now seen through a kind of faëry dusk.
The Mahdi's triumphs were beginning to penetrate even into the tropical regions of Equatoria; the tribes were rising, and Emir Pasha was preparing to retreat towards the Great Lakes. On the cast, Osman Digna pushed the insurrection right up to the shores of the Red Sea and laid siege to Suakin.
The dysentery which had broken out was probably due to the 'green' water of the Nile; for during the early period of the flood what is known as 'the false rise' washes the filth and sewage off the foreshore all along the river, and brings down the green and rotting vegetation from the spongy swamps of Equatoria. The water is then dangerous and impure.
Miss Mallory explained what Dictator Jaffier had done for her, adding: "It was all Mr. Bedient's doing.... You see what I mean, about the wonderful things that happen to others where he is.... Yet I would rather have that picture of him you painted than all Equatoria but even that should not belong to one " "You love him then?" Beth asked softly. "I dared that at first, but I didn't understand.
He is probably richer than Equatoria, and then Coral City lives off this institution as Monaco lives off Monte Carlo. He doubtless commands the whole lower element of the town. The word is, Celestino Rey intends to run the Island first-hand if he can't run it through the powers that are."
Bedient entered The Pleiad, and with relief breathed the coolness of the vast shadowed halls. One does not ride for pleasure on a June afternoon in Equatoria, and Bedient was far from fit.... There were no guests about. A pale, slender, sad-eyed gentleman appeared in a sort of throne of marble and mahogany, and perceiving the arrival, his look became fixed and glassy.
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