Capitolo 1
An African Millionaire
Episodes in the Life of the Colonel Illustrious Clay
Of Grant Allen
Before it published in 1897
CONTAINED
1. The episode of the Mexican Clairvoyant
2. The episode of the Diamond Connections
3. The episode of the Old Master
4. The episode of the Castle of Tyrolean
5. The episode of the Drawn Game
6. The episode of the German Teacher
7. The episode of the arrest of the Colonel
8. The episode of the Seldon the gold-my
9. The episode of the send-box of Japanned
10. The episode of the Game of Poker
11. The episode of the Method of Bertillon
12. The episode of the Old Boundaries external
ME
THE EPISODE OF THE MEXICAN CLAIRVOYANT
My name is Seymour Wilbraham Wentworth. I am brother-in-law and
secretary to Mr. Charles Vandrift, the African and Southern millionaire and
famous financier. Many years ago, when Charles Vandrift was a small
lawyer in Head City, I had the (qualified) the good luck to marry himself/herself/themselves his
sister. Very later, when the piece of ground of ground of Vandrift and it cultivates next to Kimberley
him developed by degrees in the Cloetedorp Golcondas, Limited mine
brother-in-law offered me the not unremunerative they post of secretary;
in that the ability I have been since then his/her constant and attached
companion.
He is not a man in that some common cheat can take, you/he/she is Charles
Vandrift. Middle height, to straight angle builds, fixed mouth, acute eyes--the
very drawn back of an acute genius of business and succeeded. I only have
known a vagabond imposes on Mr. Charles and that vagabond of one as the
Police's commissioner to remarked in Nice, would undoubtedly have imposed
on a labor union of Vidocq, Robert Houdin and Cagliostro.
We had raced I cross to the Coast for some weeks in the season. Our
object that is severely rest and recreation from the arduous duties
of financial combination, we didn't think of us him necessary to take ours
wives out with us. Indeed, Mrs. Vandrift completely the is married
the joys in London, and it doesn't appreciate the rural delights of the