uly, climatic influence is a strange and
wonderful thing. It was Africa that had done this, and he was conscious
of it. He remembered Victor Durnovo's strange outburst on their first
meeting a few miles below Msala on the Ogowe river, and the remembrance
only made him the more anxious that Jocelyn and he should turn their
backs upon the accursed West Coast for ever.

Before they went to bed that night it was all arranged. Jack Meredith
had carried his point. Maurice and Jocelyn were to sail with him to
England by the first boat. Jocelyn and he compiled a telegram to be sent
off first thing by a native boat to St. Paul de Loanda. It was addressed
to Sir John Meredith, London, and signed "Meredith, Loango." The text of
it was:

"I bring Jocelyn home by first boat."

. . .

And the last words, like the first, must be of an old man in London. We
found him in the midst of a brilliant assembly; we leave him alone. We
leave him lying stiffly on his solemn fourpost bed, with his keen, proud
face turned fearlessly towards his Maker. His lips are still; they wear
a smile which even in death is slightly cynical. On the table at his
bedside lies a submarine telegram from Africa. It is unopened.

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