An African Illionaire Episodes in The Life of The Illustrious Colonel Clay
Gece Akademi
My name is Seymour Wilbraham Wentworth I am brotherin 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 He is not a man whom any common sharper can take in is Charles Vandrift Middle height square build firm mouth keen eyes the very picture of a sharp and successful business genius I have only known one rogue impose upon Sir Charles and that one rogue as the Commissary of Police at Nice remarked would doubtless have imposed upon a syndicate of Vidocq Robert Houdin and Cagliostro
