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He had picked up big lands for almost nothing; and he found himself presently in strong favor with what was probably the most stable government Equatoria had ever known. The Captain's original purpose of acquiring the mineral rights of certain rich rivers had greatly prospered.
"Looks that way," Framtree replied. "Miss Mallory has steered " "Miss Mallory has steered Equatoria off a revolutionary shoal," Bedient finished. "You mean the Señora ?" Miss Mallory intervened. "No." "I'm very tired and stupid; please tell me in little words," she pleaded. "You changed the ship's course?" "I didn't. It changed itself.
Wordling was not an especial favorite with her. "They made it up beautifully between them, didn't they?" the actress observed, as she squeezed orange-juice into her spoon. "What?" "That story." "Who?" "Why, that story that friendship, storm-at-sea, Equatoria story done jointly by Messrs. Cairns and Bedient." "You think they rehearsed it, then?" Kate Wilkes asked softly. "Why, of course.
Occasionally in the letters, there was an obvious effort to cover this profundity of affection with a surface of humor, but it always broke through before a page was blotted.... Equatoria, and his really remarkable acquisitions there, were invariably matters for light touches.
However, you never can tell about Equatoria. There are folks who believe that this stone palace of Señor Rey is fated to become the Capitol. It might happen in two ways. Señor Rey might overturn the government and move headquarters to his own house. You see, he loves fine things too well to reside back yonder. Or, the government overturning Celestino Rey would ultimately move up here on the hill."
A month passed a foretaste of what was to come. Bedient, prepared for greater work than this, was lonely in the sunlight. He knew that he must soon begin to live his own life. His every faculty was deeply urging. Equatoria had little to do with the realities for which he had gathered more than thirty years' equipment.
I haven't told anyone else.... It's the prospect of a war. I've always wanted a revolution. You can never know how much.... You see, I'm an every-day working woman, a newspaper woman, but out of routine work. Some big things have fallen to me, but never war. Equatoria, the name and everything about it, has enchanted me for years " Bedient liked her enthusiasm.
Within three days, the Glow-worm had left Coral City for an Antillean port, to connect with a South American steamer. The Sorensons and one Chinese accompanied her. The Glow-worm shone as one lavishly rich, but trembled with fears which she dared not express, until Equatoria should sink from her horizon.
It happened that Sir Samuel Baker, Gordon's predecessor in Equatoria, lived in the neighbourhood. A meeting was arranged, and the two ex-Governors, with Mr. Barnes in attendance, went for a drive together. In the carriage, Sir Samuel Baker, taking up the tale of the "Pall Mall Gazette", dilated upon the necessity of his friend's returning to the Sudan as Governor-General.
was face to face with an English general. Then the distant regions of Darfur and Equatoria could once more be occupied; their original Sultans could be reinstated; the whole country would be placed under civilised rule; and the slave-trade would be finally abolished.
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