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Show Stanley After His Return. Nothing worried Stanley more than a tap at the door while he was writing. He sometimes glared like a tiger ready to spring. When his courier knocked tremblingly at his door he would cry out,"Am I a prisoner in my own house?" "I've brought you this telegram, sir." "Well, I detest telegrams. Why do you persist in bringing them?" Every timo Sali, his African servant, approached the den tho least thing he expected was that the inkstand would be thrown at his head. One day he originated a new way of saving his head. He had a telegram to j deliver, so he ingoniously fixed it on the : end of a long bamboo, and fitting the door just ajar he poked it into the room and bolted. Although averse to reading correspondence, correspond-ence, StaiTlcy read some lottcrs with keen delight, and ono in particular from a little girl. It contained the following characteristic lines: "It was very kind of you to go through such perils to rescue Emin Pasha. I liked so much to hear of your fighting against the dwarfs, and should like to see one very much. They must look so funny, being so small. 1 am a little school girl at school, and I am 11 years old. I am very fond of geography, and am always longing to go round the world." Scribner's. i |