CHAPTER VIII

HECTOR COMES HOME The International airliner _Orion_, sailing from South Africa to England _via_ Timbuctoo, Madrid and Paris, landed an important passenger. This was Hector, chairman of the League’s Commission on Backward Races, Hector, father of Eleuthera. Athena, his mate, was gardening. She had come back a little dispirited from a meeting of the Free Library Committee, and was now refreshing her tired spirit among her flowers. The Free Library Committee had _carte blanche_ to buy all the books it liked, and ther…