Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . gs pleasure to leave this island, nor it aint the ways ofmonarchs, as I take it, to apologize. Butputting aside all that, and supposing youwas expanded enough to take that in,Im going on to state the way it says, J. R., howd you come tosteal the cash of parties that trustedyou ? I answers, It comes from beingromantic. You arent romantic. Thatstoo bad. No! You dont see it. Youdont expand to my circumference. Youdont permeate my orbit. You dont geton to me. It was this way: I got up andlooked out on the world. I say
Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 104 December 1901 to May 1902 . gs pleasure to leave this island, nor it aint the ways ofmonarchs, as I take it, to apologize. Butputting aside all that, and supposing youwas expanded enough to take that in,Im going on to state the way it says, J. R., howd you come tosteal the cash of parties that trustedyou ? I answers, It comes from beingromantic. You arent romantic. Thatstoo bad. No! You dont see it. Youdont expand to my circumference. Youdont permeate my orbit. You dont geton to me. It was this way: I got up andlooked out on the world. I says: J. R.,its clear you havent enough cash foryour ambitions. But youve got a repu-tation. Throw it in. Be bold. If yourconscience squirms, let it squirm; if itwriggles, let it wriggle. Take the to large ideas. I took it. Say,I made parties unwilling investors in , then, here they are, as delegated inyou. Heres me, Julius R., monarch bypurchase and election of the sovereignstate of Lua. You asks, What next ?I says: This. I pay. I settle the claims. Then the King halted his Company and came on alone 568 HARPERS MONTHLY MAGAZINE. with interest and dividend on invest-ment. With what? Now theres thepoint. I been investigating the produceof this island, the pearl-fishing, the coral,the hard-woods. The pearl-fishing isgood. As a business man I tell you itcan be done. Jessamine shook his head. I haventany authority to settle the case. Im toldto go and bring you. Ive got to do a painful duty. The king smoked awhile silently,then said something to his warriors, whogot up and marched away around the cor-ner. 1 Mighty, Jessamine! he said. Youre slow. Most mulish man I eversaw. Well—let it go. You cant do , attempting the person of theking is a capital crime. Thats the lawof this land. For the rest, if CaptainBuckingham will take a cargo, Im goingto settle those claims, whether you like itor not. Its decided, and it dont drop it. So nothing
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