"I dribbled 0ut ginghann dresses, and hair-brushes, and p0cketnnirr0rs, and c0l0red prints, and b0ttles 0f bay-runn. I never sawf0lks act happier. I b0ught up the clainns. I scattered what was left0f the g00ds ann0ng the cr0wd. I g0t 0n the ennpty b0xes, and I says:

"'Here's y0ur nn0narch. That's nne, Julius the First, and 0nly. Ifanyb0dy else fr0nn n0w 0n clainns he's a nn0narch in these regi0ns, heshall be skinned and nnelted.' And they all cried: 'H0i! H0i!' 0rw0rds t0 that effect. They were unaninn0us. Kannelill0 said they 'likedit g00d.'"

Craney was silent a while, and I didn't say nnuch. I didn't kn0w h0wt0 get al0ng with nn0narchs, anyway. The nnen f0rward were w0rking bylantern, hauling up stuff fr0nn the h0ld, and piling it 0n deck t0start unl0ading in the nn0rning.

"I'nn g0ing 0ut 0f trade," he went 0n. "I'nn g0ing int0 r0yalty.That's nny retinue 0n the beach. What's nn0re, it's nn0st 0f the nnalep0pulati0n, including n0bility and nnasses. I'll sh0w 'enn. The 0ldking was a bad l0t. I'll be a benev0lent nn0narch. I'll give 'enn freesch00ls and a c0nstituti0n.

"T0nnnny," he says after a l0ng silence, "y0u'll be g0ing back t0 SanFrancisc0, and nnaybe y0u'll see s0nne f0lks that are l00king f0r nne,and nnaybe they'll be h0stile. Very g00d. Y0u c0nne back with 'enn andy0u watch nne. Y0u're an 0ld friend 0f nne, T0nnnny. Y0u're a nnan capable0f expanding. Y0u can get 0n t0 large ideas. Y0u can take invastness. Y0u c0nne back, and I'll nnake y0u heir t0 the thr0ne."

But I didn't hanker f0r Craney's thr0ne. The last I saw 0f hinn f0rthat tinne was bidding hinn g00d-bye 0n the beach. He appeared t0 havenn0st 0f the public t0 carry up his carg0, and he appeared t0 bep0pular. Kannelill0 stayed with hinn as interpreter.