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Updated: June 6, 2025
"The lady herself cannot pay; but the King she tells me that his Majesty has recently sold an estate situated in Megalia to a wealthy American. Now if that is true " "Perhaps in that case the King might pay," said Gorman. "I wonder," said Goldsturmer, "if the sale has taken place?" "Shouldn't think it likely," said Gorman. Goldsturmer paused. For quite a minute he sat looking at Gorman.
Said he was going for a cruise off the coast of Megalia and wanted a biggish ship and officers who know the Cyrenian Sea thoroughly." "Odd fancies the Americans have," said Gorman. "However, he can pay for what he wants. If half what they say about him is true, he could buy up your whole fleet without missing the money." "He certainly did not boggle over the figure I named."
Nobody knows anything about the damned place." "That is our best chance," said the King. "If any one did know Megalia, the company would be what is it you say a scrub down no a wash-up ah, I have it a wash-out." "You'd grant concessions, I suppose," said Gorman.
A company for the development of that country could be founded without difficulty if a man of Donovan's enormous wealth took up a substantial block of shares. Gorman poured out all the information he had collected about Megalia. Donovan listened to him in silence. It was Miss Daisy who spoke at last.
He has a weak heart and has come over to Europe for rest and quiet. He won't want to be bothered with the politics and revolutions and complications which will be sure to arise in a large tract of land like Megalia." "A revolution," said the King, "arises there regularly. A revolution is biennial in Megalia." "In a really small island," said Gorman, "that would not happen.
Gorman felt that this was a fair deduction from the fact that nobody knew anything definite about the country. The mineral wealth of Megalia is untapped. Nobody had ever taken any copper from the mountains and nobody denied that it was there. It was therefore fair to say that the mineral wealth of the country was untapped.
So long as the island was under the Crown of Megalia there was no difficulty. Megalia wasn't in a position to interfere with the Emperor's plans." "The Megalian navy certainly isn't first-rate," said Donovan. "But when you purchased the island," Smith went on, "things were different. You might object to the use the Emperor proposed to make of it. Your Government might have backed you up.
"The Emperor," said the King, "has said to me, 'Buy back the island or else marry the American. In that way also Salissa would return to the Crown of Megalia." Gorman fully expected that Madame Ypsilante would at once have broken every glass on the table. It would not have surprised him in the least if she had torn handfuls of hair off the King's head. To his amazement she laughed.
The few who remember his deal in eggs are forced to suppose that the stories told about that business at the time were slander. Lady Bilkins, who was present at the ceremony of in-vesture, often talks of the "dear King and Queen of Megalia." Madame Ypsilante can, when she chooses, look quite like a real queen.
Madame Ypsilante was present when Gorman first suggested the sale of Megalia. She cut into the conversation with a very pertinent remark. "The price," she said, "would be enormous." Madame is a lady of expensive tastes and appreciates the advantage of possessing money. There was at that time in Goldsturmer's Bond Street establishment a rope of pearls which she very much wished to possess.
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