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Updated: May 6, 2025
Their priesthood if it can be called a priesthood is patriarchal. There are no taxes, no police, no courts of justice, no regular laws, indeed no government, though the island is, or was, part of the Kingdom of Megalia. My friend Gorman, who spent some time there, says that Salissa was a delightful place to live on until the Great Powers discovered its existence.
It is a one-dog country. There is nothing in it. I have tried it, and I know." "We might start a Megalian Development Company," said Gorman. "A company, perhaps," said the King, "but development of Megalia, never." "I was not thinking of actually developing it. That would be the company's business afterwards. Not that it will be easy to start the company. It won't.
I do not think that the Emperor's plan for restoring Salissa to the Crown of Megalia by means of a marriage would have worked, even if there had been no such person as Maurice Phillips. The Queen did not like Konrad Karl. She was not, of course, openly disagreeable or uncivil to him.
But my friend is it wise? There must be someone who knows that the Pink Vulture of Megalia is not an antique. It is, as the English say, mid-Victorian. 1865, Gorman. That is the date; and someone will know that." "I daresay," said Gorman, "that there may be two or three people who know; but they haven't opened their mouths so far and before they do we ought to have Bilkins' checque safe."
I can give an order, I can say 'Bilkins, you are Grand Knight of the Order of the Pink Vulture of Megalia, First Class. Gorman, it is done. I give. Bilkins pays. The world admires the honourableness of the Right Honourable Sir Bilkins. His character is washed white. Ah, Corinne, my beloved, you shall spit in the face of the manager of Emile's. I said I cannot ramp. I have no eggs. I was wrong.
Miss Daisy was still standing with her arms round her father's neck. She hugged him as she spoke. "I shall just love Megalia," she said. "I'd far rather have it than one three times the size." "Well," said her father, "I guess there's no reason why you shouldn't have it." Gorman saw several reasons, excellent ones, why Daisy Donovan could never be queen of Megalia. He began to explain them.
He got another glass of brandy and a box of cigarettes. He set them on a table beside a deep armchair. Madame suffered herself to be led to the chair. "Now, my friend Gorman," said the King, "if you have a key which will open the dead lock, make it trot out." "What Donovan wants," said Gorman, "is a kingdom for his daughter. Not Megalia in particular, but some kind of right to wear a crown.
Gorman was a politician. It was not the first time he had been offered a commission. He hoped it would not be the last. What puzzled him was Goldsturmer's final remark. Why should the man have said he had no interest in the state affairs of Megalia unless indeed he was interested, was on the track of a suspected secret?
"I think," he said, "that you are a friend of his Majesty, King Konrad Karl of Megalia?" Gorman was on his guard and determined to give away no information of any kind. The King's nervous fear of the Emperor's displeasure had impressed Gorman with the necessity of keeping the sale of Salissa as secret as possible; but he could hardly avoid admitting that he knew King Konrad Karl.
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