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Hastings assured him blandly, "you are dealing with
things that can happen. My brother Otho, my niece's father, was just
this last year the sole survivor of the wreck of a very important
vessel."
"I have the honour, Mrs. Hastings, to be narrating to you the
circumstances attending the discovery of your brother and Miss
Holland's father, after the wreck of that vessel."
"My father?" cried Olivia.
The prince bowed.
"After this manner, Chance had rewarded us. We crowned your father
King of Yaque."


CHAPTER V
OLIVIA PROPOSES

Prince Tabnit's announcement was received by his guests in the
silence of amazement. If they had been told that Miss Holland's
father was secretly acting as King of England they could have been
no more profoundly startled than to hear stated soberly that he had
been for nearly a year the king of a cannibal island. For the
cannibal phase of his experience seemed a foregone conclusion. To
St. George, profoundly startled and most incredulous, the possible
humour of the situation made first appeal.


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