y to spend it in more luxurious
countries."

"Perhaps, but it has never seemed to me to be fair. My father is not
like that. He loves Africa as I do, but he is a very hard-working man,
and perhaps some things do not occur to him. I think he is up here now
to see the country, as well as acquire fresh mining properties, and
all the time he seems so busy and preoccupied, he is probably thinking
out development schemes of general benefit."

"I hope so," and Ailsa spoke very earnestly. "Your father is a fine
man; one has only to talk to him to perceive that quickly, and it
would be a good day for Rhodesia if he began to take a genuinely
practical interest in her welfare. I know he has talked much of it to
Major Carew, and no one could tell him more of our hopes and needs."

They were silent a few moments, and then Ailsa added with a touch of
emotion, "You know, when one thinks of the service some men give so
quietly and unquestioningly to the far-off lands, it seems, after all,
but a small thing for rich men who have benefited by them to give of
their riches. Yet how few ever do! There are more men ready to risk
their lives than to put their hands in their pockets. But then that is
just perhaps because they are fools, and fools never make any money to
give; have nothing, in fact, except their lives to offer."

She smiled with a little twist to her lips, playing fitfully with a
thread in her fingers. Evidently it was a subject that moved her
deeply. "Of course, you know the verse from 'The Ship of Fools':

'We are those fools who could not rest
In the dull earth we left behind,
And burned with passion for the West,
And drank strange frenzy from its wind.

The world where wise men live at ease
Fades from our unregretful eyes,
And blind, across uncharted seas,
We stagger on our enterprise.'

"Those are the men who appeal to me; the men to whom gain is the
secondary consideration; who come blindly out just as much to give as
to take. My husband is one, Major Carew is another, Stanley under
Carew's influence will become a third. Think of them all, all over the
world; guarding the frontiers, making the paths, exploring the
danger-zones!

"Think of the little band now gone into the sleeping-sickness belt to
investigate the disease, and try to learn how best to cope with it!
How little reward will they get! how little acclaim! But that is just
a side issue. They did not go for rewa