It never really got much beyond the rumor stage--Captain James Kelly of the S. S. _Andaman_ saw to that. It wouldn’t have done him any good, or his line, and since England was troubled with railway strikes and war scares at Agadir, things which happened on the other side of the globe were apt to be crowded out of the newspapers. But he couldn’t stop the rumors, and “Our Special Correspondent” in Colombo made out quite a fair story for his paper at home. It didn’t appear; seemingly the editor thought the poor devil had taken to drink and was raving. In fact, all that did appear in the papers were two short and apparently disconnected notices. The first ran somewhat as follows, and was found …
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