[The Ivory Trail by Talbot Mundy]@TWC D-Link bookThe Ivory Trail CHAPTER One 69/73
Those against the motion take their shirts off, and see if they can lick me! Nobody pugnacious? The ayes have it! Talk along, Didums!" For all Fred's playfulness, Yerkes and I came in of our free and considered will, and Monty understood that. "We've got to separate," he said, "and I've got to interview the King of Belgium." "If that were my job," grinned Yerkes, "I'd prob'ly tell him things!" "I don't pretend to like him," said Monty.
"But it seems to me I can serve our best interests by going to Brussels.
He can't very well refuse me a private audience.
I should get a contract with the Congo government satisfactory to all concerned.
He's rapacious--but I think not ninety per cent.
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