To Menelek in a motor-car . Emperor Meneiek and \^ el. 3 a: CO 3 0; I; V. 0 03 10 - J Q ^5 a£ TO MENELEK IN A MOTOR-CAR nervously at the sides of the car and at each otherabsolutely speechless from fright. As has been said, the car was nicely tuned up,and they were presently doing a comfortable fiftymiles an hour, and by this time the dignitarieswere limp lumps of wabbling flesh, allowing them-selves to be bumped about helplessly, their eyesstaring into vacancy and nearly starting out of theirsockets. When at length the car drew up at the market-place, after what really was less than a three-m
To Menelek in a motor-car . Emperor Meneiek and \^ el. 3 a: CO 3 0; I; V. 0 03 10 - J Q ^5 a£ TO MENELEK IN A MOTOR-CAR nervously at the sides of the car and at each otherabsolutely speechless from fright. As has been said, the car was nicely tuned up,and they were presently doing a comfortable fiftymiles an hour, and by this time the dignitarieswere limp lumps of wabbling flesh, allowing them-selves to be bumped about helplessly, their eyesstaring into vacancy and nearly starting out of theirsockets. When at length the car drew up at the market-place, after what really was less than a three-minutesrun, but which to them no doubt appeared a fewcenturies, with simultaneous promptitude eachdignitary alighted from his own door, and when hereached terra firma ejaculated something which wasno doubt the Amheric equivalent of Thank God ! But Bentley was not out to lose time. He boughthis little basket and made a sign to Wells, and with-out more ado, each bundled a dignitary back intothe car, slammed the door to, and before they hadtime to prote
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