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Updated: June 10, 2025
None answered or stirred; so after he had waited a while, he said: 'Is there any who hath any guilt to lay against a Stranger, an Outlander, being such a man as he deems we can come at?
"Why, I travel with a staff, my dear, as you perceive: and it suffices me." "Certainly it is large enough, in all conscience. Alas, young outlander, who call yourself a king! you carry the bludgeon of a highwayman, and I am afraid of it."
What can the chief of a small State of 250,000 inhabitants do with such a large amount of Secret funds? "We can picture to ourselves what the financial administration of the Boers must be in this plethora of money, provided almost entirely by the hated Outlander. An example may be cited.
A strangely hideous procession, they shambled on, for the most part silent, all uncouth and unreal in the clear morning glow. The outlander was sensible of some relief when his cabby popped hurriedly out of the entrance to a tenement, a dull-visaged, broad-shouldered waterman ambling more slowly after.
'And thinkest thou, Nyleptha, she said in notes which pealed through the great hall like a clarion, 'thinkest thou that I, Sorais, a Queen of the Zu-Vendi, will brook that this base outlander shall sit upon my father's throne and rear up half-breeds to fill the place of the great House of the Stairway?
"There is the loutish outlander, who boasted before the duke that he would fight me. He is a big callow fellow, and it would be a shame to stick the swine." Max, who understood the Italian language sufficiently to grasp Calli's meaning, flushed angrily, but I touched his arm and he turned his back upon the fellow. Then I spoke in tones that Calli could not fail to hear:
Metem looked steadily at the tablets which he still held in his hand. "I have heard," he said humbly, "that the king Ithobal, the great king, always pays his debts, and as I an outlander shall be leaving Zimboe shortly under his safe conduct, I desire to close this small account." Ithobal went to the door of his tent and commanded that his treasurer should attend him, bringing money.
"If ye're lookin' for th' hotel," he volunteered unexpectedly, "there aint none;" and effected a masterly retreat into the ticket-booth. Amused, the despised outlander picked up his luggage and followed amiably. "I'm not looking for the hotel that aint," he said, planting himself in front of the grating; "but I expected to be met by someone from Tanglewood "
However, if Britt undertook such a play of perfidy, the outlander knew that the native would have the advantage in the exchange of accusation. Vaniman perceived the existing state of affairs in the demeanor of the men whom he met on the street, going to and from the tavern. He heard some of their remarks. He strove to keep a calm face while his soul burned! Then, at last, Examiner Starr acted.
He wore for this meeting, not his holiday raiment of blue, with the sprigged waistcoat that his Uncle Armistead might have left him, but that selfsame suit she had seen upon him all last year; including that other memorable day in her life when she had come clicking down the stairs to find the tall outlander standing here in her familiar background.
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