The People of the River by Edgar Wallace

ONCE upon a time a man went up to the Calali River to buy rubber from the natives. He had a permit signed by the new Administrator and a licence to trade, and he had come into Sanders' territory by a back way and did not trouble to have this permit visaed.

Now the permit bore the signature of His Excellency the Administrator, him and none other, and the name of His Excellency "goes," and people have been known to bow their heads most respectfully at the mention of his name.