Didn't go near the King of Belgium.

I was quarantined at Ismailia on wholly imaginary grounds for fourteen days; and who should come smiling into the same lazaretto on the last day but Frederick Courtney--a very old friend of mine!" "He was to go to Somaliland," I said.
"So he told me.

He's on his way there now.

Decided for reasons of his own to enter the country by way of Abyssinia.

Told me of the advice he'd given you fellows, and assured me he'd seen King Leopold himself on the very matter scarcely a year before.