29/30 Well, it is a risky job, and if any one else had proposed it to me, I'd have told him to go to--Mur. But, Adams, my boy, you saved my life once, and never sent in a bill, because I was hard up, and I haven't forgotten that. Also things are pretty hot for me here just now over a certain controversy of which I suppose you haven't heard in Central Africa. What do you say, Oliver ?" "Oh!" said Captain Orme, waking up from a reverie, "if you are satisfied, I am. |