CHAPTER IX

AUTOCRATS AT THE BREAKFAST-TABLE "Well, son Bud, what you know about _that_ for a fight?" asked the Emir of his Vizier as they broke fast after the duel between the French officer and the _agent provocateur_ from the East. "What price Boje at the killing game?" "I allow it was the best sword-fight I ever seen," replied the Vizier. "I never denied that Rastignac nor Boje was real _men_. . . ." "And I'll tell the world that if Boje gets Miss Mary, she gets a husband to be proud of," interrupted the Emir. "Yep--as a h…