his face and he
has banished all his wives, relatives and councillors to a distant
village, he is more popular than ever.

"Illustrious and Excellent Senhor, I feel that at last I am seeing
the end of the old regime and that we may look forward to a period
of sobriety and prosperity in the M'fusi.

"Receive the assurance, Illustrious and Excellent Senhor, of my
distinguished consideration."

His Excellency went purple and white.

"Holy mother!" he spluttered apoplectically, "this is ruin!"

With trembling hands he wrote a telegram. Translated in its sense it was
to this effect--

"Recall de Sagosta without fail or there will be nothing doing on pay
day."

He saw this dispatched on its way, and returned to his bureau. He picked
up the duc's letter and read it again: then he saw there was a
postscript.

"P.S.--In regard to the strangers who visited the king, the man
they carried away on a closed litter was very sick indeed,
according to the accounts of woodmen who met the party. He was
raving at the top of his voice, but the white man was singing very
loudly.

"P.SS.--I have just heard, Illustrious and Excellent Senhor, that
the Hooded King (as his people call him) has sent off all his
richest treasures and many others which he has taken from the huts
of his deported relatives to one Bosambo, who is a chief of the
Ochori in British Territory, and is distantly related to Senhor
Sanders, the Commissioner of that Territory."

THE END

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