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Emblem finished speaking, no one replied, because Arnold and Lala knew the facts already, but did not wish to spread them abroad: and next, because to Iris it was nothing new that her cousin was a bad man, and because she thought, now that the Man in Possession was gone, they might just as well forget the papers, and go on as if all this fuss had not happened.

Iris laughed, and said she did not know she had a single namesake. Lala did not laugh; but he sat thinking in silence. There was no chess for him that night; instead of playing his usual game, Mr. Emblem, in his chair, laughed and chuckled in rather a ghastly way. "Well, Joe," said his wife, "and how is it going to finish? It looks to me as if there was a prison-van and a police-court at the end.

The Lala turned up his ugly face as Gregorios entered, and then rose from his seat, reluctantly, as though much exhausted. Balsamides laid his hand upon the fellow's arm and looked into his small red eyes. "The Khanum is dead," said the pretended physician. The negro trembled violently, and throwing up his arms would have clapped his hands together. But Balsamides stopped him.

Arnold was interested in this "But, my dear Clara, I have my profession. I must follow my profession." "Surely surely! Listen, Arnold, patiently. Anybody can become an artist anybody, of course, who has the genius. And all kinds of people, gutter people, have the genius." "The sun," said Arnold, just as if he had been Lala Roy, "shines on all alike."

Let me tell you that this little old Chinatown of yours is pie to me. You're trying to get me figuring on Chinese death traps, secret poisons, and all that junk. Boy, you're wasting your poetry. Even if you did see the Chink with Lala, and I doubt it Oh, don't get excited, I'm speaking plain there's no connection that I can see between the death of said Chink and old Huang Chow."

He went away at length, leaving the man the professional person behind. Then Lala Roy persuaded Mr. Emblem to go upstairs again. He did so without any apparent consciousness that there was a Man in Possession. "James," said Lala Roy, "you have heard that your master has been robbed. You are reflecting and meditating on this circumstance.

To describe all the incidents of my long visit would fill a book, but I think I have written enough to show what a very interesting time I spent with this Fijian Prince. It was without doubt one of the most curious experiences of all my travels in different parts of the globe. With all his faults, Ratu Lala was a good fellow, and he certainly was a sportsman.

We stayed here some days, but we had miserable, wet weather. There was excellent fishing in the stream here, and Ratu Lala especially had very good sport. Many of the fish averaged one-and-a-half pounds and more, but he told me that they often run to five pounds. There were three kinds, and all excellent eating.

But what nonsense it is even to talk of such things; I am quite alone, except for my grandfather and Lala Roy." "And they are old," murmured Arnold. "Do not look at me with such pity," said the girl. "I am very happy. I have my own occupation; I am independent; I have my work to fill my mind; and I have these two old gentlemen to care for and think of.

We put up at the "Buli's" hut; he was a cousin of Ratu Lala, and was a hideous and sulky-looking fellow, but his hut was one of the finest and neatest I had seen in Fiji. As I literally had not had a mouthful of food since the previous evening, I was glad when about a dozen women entered bearing banana leaves covered with yams, fish, octopus, chickens, etc.