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"The English," said the King, "are a great people, very wonderful. You even you, my friend, who are not English, but Irish you will not let me marry because of Corinne. You wish me to eat humble pie while poor Corinne goes hungry, and yet you will make money out of a company for reforming the people of Megalia, making them civilized, Christian a thing that is not at all possible ever, in any way.
He succeeded in carrying off the Crown jewels when he left the country; but his departure was so hurried that he carried off nothing else. His tastes were expensive, and Madame Ypsilante was a lady of lavish habits. The Crown jewels of Megalia did not last long.
Konrad Earl II. lost his crown and became a king in exile when Megalia became a republic. He was the victim of an ordinary revolution which took place in 1918, and was, therefore, in no way connected with the great war. Konrad Karl was anxious that this fact should be widely known.
The presence of a third person might have saved Gorman some awkwardness. Steinwitz was insistent and determined. He laid hold on Gorman before lunch and clung to him until they sat down together. "You remember asking me," said Steinwitz "let me see, it must have been a couple of months ago you remember asking me for information about Megalia." "Did I?" said Gorman.
"Nothing," he said, "can be done with that country. Nothing at all. There is no trade, no traffic of any kind. And there cannot be. If there were anything to be done in Megalia, we should have had a steamer going there. Our ships pass the coast. But they do not call. Never." This interview, curiously enough, was the one thing which gave Gorman any hope.
"I don't know Megalia well," said Gorman, "but there must surely be some outlying corner of that interesting country an island, for instance which you could make over, sporting, mineral and royal rights, to Donovan; just as England gave Heligoland to the Germans and somebody or other, probably the Turks, gave Cyprus to the English. The thing is constantly done." "But the Emperor," said the King.
But, alas and damn, I leave Paris. I take trains. I travel fast. I embark." He waved his hand towards the steamer. "Finally, I arrive." "How did you come to embark in that curious-looking ship? I never saw a steamer like her before." "That," said the King, "is the navy of Megalia. I come as a King, in a state." "I rather wonder that you trusted yourself to that navy," said Gorman.
The king seemed a little uneasy, and after dinner spoke to Gorman about the Megalian Order of the Pink Vulture. "You are magnificent, Gorman," he said, "and your English press! Ah, my friend, if you had been Prime Minister in Megalia, and if there had been newspapers, I might to-day be sitting on the throne, though I do not want to, not at all. The throne of Megalia is what you call a hot spot.
"I've rather a queer case on hand," said Dane-Latimer, "and some friends of yours are mixed up in it, at least I think I'm right in saying that that picturesque blackguard Konrad Karl of Megalia is a friend of yours." "I hope he's not the co-respondent," said Gorman. "No. No. It's nothing of that sort. In fact, strictly speaking, he's not in it at all. No legal liability.
"This American," she said, "is no doubt a fool, and his daughter imbecile. Do not contradict me. All young girls are imbecile. As for the father, if he were not a fool would he wish to buy Megalia? Megalia, my God! The world is full of things desirable to buy; and he asks for that." The King nodded. He knew Megalia. The man who wanted to buy it was certainly a fool.
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