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Updated: September 26, 2025
Steinwitz' office. The first one I found in the hall of the Queen's palace the day we landed on Salissa." "Well," said Gorman, "that's not much to go on. Lots of firms use envelopes like that, and I suppose there are thousands of letters every day with that postmark. Still it's possible that Steinwitz wrote a letter to some one who was on the island last September.
If that Emperor of yours really enjoys a rag with a woman like Madame Ypsilante I should have thought a man in his position wouldn't care to be mixed up in the sort of scene there will certainly be." Steinwitz stiffened visibly. His hair always stands upright on his head. It actually bristled while Gorman was speaking. "I do not," he said, "discuss the Emperor in that way.
When I reached his table I saw that he already had a companion Steinwitz, the director of the Cyrenian Sea Steam Navigation Company. I turned away at once, for Steinwitz is a man whom I particularly dislike. Gorman caught sight of me and called: "Come and sit here. There's plenty of room. The waiter can lay another place."
Steinwitz who got me my present situation a very good situation, your Majesty." "Smith," said Donovan, "get the King's luggage ashore. He's going to stay here for a bit. You must make him as comfortable as you can." "Yes, sir," said Smith. "I'll see to that, sir, at once. Anything else, sir?" "Not now," said Donovan. "Thank you, sir," said Smith. Then he left the balcony.
The Ida will, no doubt, return after she is unloaded. You can give your letters to Captain Wilson." "I suppose there's no other way of sending letters?" "A coasting steamer, perhaps," said Steinwitz, "or a fishing boat might put in at the island; but the Ida will be your best means of communicating with me." "All right," said Gorman. "I'll let you know how things go on. But don't be too sanguine.
But he thought that still more amusement might be obtained by playing politics with people like Steinwitz, von Moll, and the immensely pompous Emperor. Donovan was anxious that Gorman should stay on the island. He listened, reluctantly, to all the Queen had to tell him. He heard about the cisterns in the cave.
The puzzle became more complicated and Gorman's curiosity was further whetted before he started for Salissa. After leaving my rooms he went to Cockspur Street and called at the office of the Cyrenian Sea Steam Navigation Company. Steinwitz was expecting him and received him in the most friendly manner.
It is enough for you to know this. Madame Ypsilante will sell. Goldsturmer will buy. I myself will settle these matters." Gorman was enjoying himself greatly. Nothing in the world gives him more pleasure than intercourse with a man who takes himself seriously. Steinwitz was a real delight. He was solemnly and ponderously serious about himself. He was pontifical about the Emperor.
There were alterations to be made in the Ida, a steamer not originally intended to carry passengers. These were left to Steinwitz; but Miss Daisy managed to run down every day to see that the work was being done as quickly as possible. She had interviews with Captain Wilson, who commanded the Ida, and Mr. Maurice Phillips, the first officer. She asked them both to dinner.
"And I told you it was a rotten country no trade, no harbours, no tourist traffic, no anything. Well rather an odd thing happened yesterday. A man came into my office by the way, you know him, I think Donovan, the American millionaire " "Oh, yes, I know him. Owns a pretty daughter, doesn't he?" "She was with him," said Steinwitz "a romantic sort of girl, I should say, by the look of her.
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