Zarquad

After all those long years searching, he had finally found him. “Doctor Livingstone, I presume?” Stanley said with great confidence.

“No!”

Stanley’s countenance fell.

“At least not any more,” the former Doctor Livingstone said, “I am now known as Zarquad Fleeberflammer IV, Deputy Foreign Minister to His Greatness, Floyd, King of Monkeys!” Zarquad beamed from ear to ear.

“I . . . see,” Stanley didn’t really know how to carry on the conversation from there, but he tried like any good English gentleman, “And would King Floyd be interested in an audience with a journalist?”

“I don’t see why,” Zarquad said, “He’s a monkey.”