But when he reached Lyster he said not a word of the despised
reds; he had other matters more important.
“Here, Max! A most annoying thing has happened,” he said,
hurriedly. “Those two men are newspaper fellows, and one is going
East on our train. Worse still—the one knows people I know. Gad!
I’d rather lose a thousand dollars than meet them now! And you must
come over and get acquainted. They’ve been here a month, and are to
write accounts of the life and country. That means they have been
here long enough to hear all about ’Tana and that Holly. Do you
understand? You’ll have to treat them well,—the best possible—pull
wires even if it costs money, and fix it so that a record of this
does not get into the Eastern papers. And, above and beyond
everything else, so long as we are
