24/44 Few of 'em quite so well informed, though, and dangerous if you give 'em a chance." "I still don't see why you're sweating," said Fred. There's a chance she knows where the ivory is! She has money, but how? Possibly they have paid her to do some spy-work--in the Zanzibar court, perhaps--the Sultan's a mere boy--" "Isn't he woolly-headed ?" objected Yerkes. It's a French game to send a white woman to intrigue at colored courts, but the Germans are good imitators." "Isn't she English ?" asked Yerkes. |