"I imagine he is a good man--tip-top shot and all that.

I've never met him, but I have heard of him." "He is a gentleman, at all events," said Meredith quietly; "I know that." Jocelyn was looking at him between the hibiscus flowers decorating the table.
"Is Mr.Durnovo going to be leader of the expedition ?" she inquired casually, after a few moments' silence; and Jack, looking up with a queer smile, met her glance for a moment.
"No," he answered.
Maurice Gordon's hearty laugh interrupted.
"Ha, ha!" he cried.

"I wonder where the dickens you men are going to ?" "Up the Ogowe river," replied Jack.
"No doubt.

But what for?
There is something mysterious about that river.
Durnovo keeps his poor relations there, or something of that kind." "We are not going to look for them." "I suppose," said Maurice, helping himself to marmalade, "that he has dropped upon some large deposit of ivory; that will turn out to be the solution of the mystery.

It is the solution of most mysteries in this country.