"Take this country! We came ashore today--left Monty on board ship on his way to Europe.

Nobody knew a thing about us.

A female woman, known to the police in Zanzibar and so notorious in Europe that she's in no hurry to go home--said, too, on every hand to be in the pay of the German government--chose to tell lies about us to the chuckle-headed puppies in charge of Mombasa.

Net result--what do you suppose ?" "I know," said Courtney.

"I've been told this evening." His eyes changed, and his voice took on the almost feminine note of appeal that came strangely from a big game hunter.