London was to be the battle ground in the coming conflict.

A committee of three had journeyed to England to put the matter in the hands of these lawyers and were now returning to the island with a representative of the firm, who was coming out to stand guard, so to speak.

Von Blitz, the German superintendent, was the master mind in the native contingent.

It was he who planned and developed the course of action.

The absent committee was composed of Ben Adi, Abdallah Ben Sabbat and Rasula, the Aratat lawyer.
They were truly wise men from the East--old, shrewd, crafty and begotten of Mahomet.
The mines continued to be operated as usual, pending the arrival of the executors' representative, who, as we know, was now on the ground in the person of Thomas Saunders.