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"
Two
or
three
thousand
,
"
answered
the
other
.
"
But
the
climate
's
so
infernal
,
they
do
n't
enjoy
it
long
.
Liverseege
died
after
eighteen
months
of
it
,
and
the
man
before
went
off
in
six
weeks
,
I
hear
.
"
"
Some
people
say
his
brother
is
a
very
clever
man
.
I
always
found
him
a
d
--
--
--
bore
,
"
Smith
ejaculated
.
"
He
must
have
good
interest
,
though
.
He
must
have
got
the
Colonel
the
place
.
"
"
He
!
"
said
Brown
.
with
a
sneer
.
"
Pooh
.
It
was
Lord
Steyne
got
it
.
"
How
do
you
mean
?
"
"
A
virtuous
woman
is
a
crown
to
her
husband
,
"
answered
the
other
enigmatically
,
and
went
to
read
his
papers
.
Rawdon
,
for
his
part
,
read
in
the
Royalist
the
following
astonishing
paragraph
:
GOVERNORSHIP
OF
COVENTRY
ISLAND
.
--
H.M.S.
Yellowjack
,
Commander
Jaunders
,
has
brought
letters
and
papers
from
Coventry
Island
.
H.
E.
Sir
Thomas
Liverseege
had
fallen
a
victim
to
the
prevailing
fever
at
Swampton
.
His
loss
is
deeply
felt
in
the
flourishing
colony
.
We
hear
that
the
Governorship
has
been
offered
to
Colonel
Rawdon
Crawley
,
C.B.
,
a
distinguished
Waterloo
officer
.
We
need
not
only
men
of
acknowledged
bravery
,
but
men
of
administrative
talents
to
superintend
the
affairs
of
our
colonies
,
and
we
have
no
doubt
that
the
gentleman
selected
by
the
Colonial
Office
to
fill
the
lamented
vacancy
which
has
occurred
at
Coventry
Island
is
admirably
calculated
for
the
post
which
he
is
about
to
occupy
.
"
"
Coventry
Island
!
Where
was
it
?
Who
had
appointed
him
to
the
government
?
You
must
take
me
out
as
your
secretary
,
old
boy
,
"
Captain
Macmurdo
said
laughing
;
and
as
Crawley
and
his
friend
sat
wondering
and
perplexed
over
the
announcement
,
the
Club
waiter
brought
in
to
the
Colonel
a
card
on
which
the
name
of
Mr.
Wenham
was
engraved
,
who
begged
to
see
Colonel
Crawley
.
The
Colonel
and
his
aide-de-camp
went
out
to
meet
the
gentleman
,
rightly
conjecturing
that
he
was
an
emissary
of
Lord
Steyne
.
"
How
d'ye
do
,
Crawley
?
I
am
glad
to
see
you
,
"
said
Mr.
Wenham
with
a
bland
smile
,
and
grasping
Crawley
's
hand
with
great
cordiality
.
