Was this olive prince, he wondered, going to prove himself worth only a half-column on a back page, after all?
"I understand you to say," said St.George, with the weary self-restraint of one who deals with lunatics, "that the line of King Hiram, the friend of King David of Israel, became extinct less than a year ago ?" The prince smiled.
"Do not conceal your incredulity," he said liberally, "for I forgive it.

You see, then," he went on serenely, "how in Yaque the question of the succession became engrossing.

The matter was not merely one of ascendancy, for the Yaquians are singularly free from ambition.

But their pride in their island is boundless.

They see in her the advance guard of civilization, the peculiar people to whom have come to be intrusted many of the secrets of being.