An African Millionaire: Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay

by Grant Allen

An African Millionaire

Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay

By Grant Allen

First published in 1897

CONTENTS

1. [The Episode of the Mexican Seer]
2. [The Episode of the Diamond Links]
3. [The Episode of the Old Master]
4. [The Episode of the Tyrolean Castle]
5. [The Episode of the Drawn Game]
6. [The Episode of the German Professor]
7. [The Episode of the Arrest of the Colonel]
8. [The Episode of the Seldon Gold-Mine]
9. [The Episode of the Japanned Dispatch-Box]
10. [The Episode of the Game of Poker]
11. [The Episode of the Bertillon Method]
12. [The Episode of the Old Bailey]

I

THE EPISODE OF THE MEXICAN SEER

My name is Seymour Wilbraham Wentworth. I am brother-in-law and secretary to Sir Charles Vandrift, the South African millionaire and famous financier. Many years ago, when Charlie Vandrift was a small lawyer in Cape Town, I had the (qualified) good fortune to marry his sister. Much later, when the Vandrift estate and farm near Kimberley developed by degrees into the Cloetedorp Golcondas, Limited, my brother-in-law offered me the not unremunerative post of secretary; in which capacity I have ever since been his constant and attached companion.