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I> for the next Viceroyship; Mr. Frith, the passed-over Acting Chief
Secretary, a rather too familiar figure at the bar in the Milner Club;
Tony Henley, the A. D.C., who has ultimately to be disowned; Old Moses,
the trusted Mimbo butler and key figure in the Residency; the socially
irresistible Mr. Ngono; Mr. Talefwa, left-wing editor of the African
Independence newspaper, War Drum; and Mr. Das, itinerant legal Counsel
called in by the Defence. Then there is the Governor s Lady herself;
twenty years younger than Sir Gardnor; somewhat withdrawn from
Government life because of an incident that occurred before Harold
Stebbs arrived; and already the subject of gossip in European, African
and Asian circles alike. There is also Lady Anne s lady-in-waiting,
Sybil Prosser, who has her own reasons for discretion. I> portays a
host of interesting characters: young Harold Stebbs, bachelor, newly
appointed to the Governor s secretariat in Amimbo; the Governor, Sir
Gardnor Hackforth, already something of a Pro-consular legend in the
Service, and tipped by
The TimesThe Governor s Lady<
I> for the next Viceroyship; Mr. Frith, the
passed-over Acting Chief Secretary, a rather too familiar figure at
the bar in the Milner Club; Tony Henley, the A. D.C., who has
ultimately to be disowned; Old Moses, the trusted Mimbo butler and key
figure in the Residency; the socially irresistible Mr. Ngono; Mr.
Talefwa, left-wing editor of the African Independence newspaper, War
Drum; and Mr. Das, itinerant legal Counsel called in by the Defence.
Then there is the Governor s Lady herself; twenty years younger than
Sir Gardnor; somewhat withdrawn from Government life because of an
incident that occurred before Harold Stebbs arrived; and already the
subject of gossip in European, African and Asian circles alike. There
is also Lady Anne s lady-in-waiting, Sybil Prosser, who has her own
reasons for discretion. I> portays a host of interesting
characters: young Harold Stebbs, bachelor, newly appointed to the
Governor s secretariat in Amimbo; the Governor, Sir Gardnor Hackforth,
already something of a Pro-consular legend in the Service, and tipped
by The TimesThe Governor s Lady<
