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           Yellowjack,CommanderJaunders,hasbroughtlettersandpapersfromCoventryIsland.H.E.SirThomasLiverseegehadfallenavictimtotheprevailingfeveratSwampton.Hislossisdeeplyfeltintheflourishingcolony.WehearthattheGovernorshiphasbeenofferedtoColonelRawdonCrawley,C.B.,adistinguishedWaterlooofficer.Weneednotonlymenofacknowledgedbravery,butmenofadministrativetalentstosuperintendtheaffairsofourcolonies,andwehavenodoubtthatthegentlemanselectedbytheColonialOfficetofillthelamentedvacancywhichhasoccurredatCoventryIslandisadmirablycalculatedforthepostwhichheisabouttooccupy."

           "CoventryIsland!Wherewasit?Whohadappointedhimtothegovernment?Youmusttakemeoutasyoursecretary,oldboy,"CaptainMacmurdosaidlaughing;andasCrawleyandhisfriendsatwonderingandperplexedovertheannouncement,theClubwaiterbroughtintotheColonelacardonwhichthenameofMr.Wenhamwasengraved,whobeggedtoseeColonelCrawley.

           TheColonelandhisaide-de-campwentouttomeetthegentleman,rightlyconjecturingthathewasanemissaryofLordSteyne."Howd’yedo,Crawley?Iamgladtoseeyou,"saidMr.Wenhamwithablandsmile,andgraspingCrawley’shandwithgreatcordiality.

           "Youcome,Isuppose,from"

           "Exactly,"saidMr.Wenham.

           "ThenthisismyfriendCaptainMacmurdo,oftheLifeGuardsGreen."

           "DelightedtoknowCaptainMacmurdo,I’msure,"Mr.

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