[The Ivory Trail by Talbot Mundy]@TWC D-Link bookThe Ivory Trail CHAPTER EIGHTEEN 3/4
But that is really all government business, and looks impertinent in print. We did not make enough money to establish Monty in the homes of his ancestors at Montdidier Towers and Kirkudbrightshire Castle; for that would have been an unbelievable amount; it takes more than mere affluence to keep up an earldom in the proper style.
But we all got rich. Brown received his cattle back after a long wait, as well as a present of money that set him up handsomely for life.
And certain dissatisfied Masai were fined so many cows and sheep for raiding across the border that they talked of migrating out of spite to German East--but did not do it. A youthful red-headed assistant district superintendent of police was unaccountably alert enough to round up and bring into court more than a dozen natives who had preached sedition.
And, being lucky enough to secure convictions in every case, he was promoted.
The last I heard of him he was fighting in the very heart of German East in command of a whole brigade.
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