"The Strange Adventure Of James Shervinton" from George Lewis Becke. Australian pacific trader, short-story writer and novelist (1855-1913).
The night was close and stifling, and the dulled bellowing of the surf on the weather side of the island told me that the calm was about to break at last, and in another hour or so the thirsty, sandy soil would be drenched with the long-expected rain, and the drooping palms and...
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