The Isle of Retribution

The Isle of Retribution

The manifold powers of circumstance were in conspiracy against Ned Cornet this late August afternoon. No detail was important in itself. It had been drizzling slowly and mournfully, but drizzle is not uncommon in Seattle. Ned Cornet had been passing the time pleasantly in the Totem Club, on Fourth Street, doing nothing in particular, nothing exceedingly bad or good or even unusually diverting; but such was quite a customary practice with him. Finally, Cornets special friend, Rodney Coburn, had just returned from one of his hundred sojourns in far places,this time from an especially attractive salmon stream in Canada. The two young men had met in Coburns room at the Totem Club, and the steward had gone thither with tall glasses and ice. Coburn had not returned empty-handed from Canada. Besides pleasant memories of singing reels and throbbing rods and of salmon that raced like wild sea horses down the riffles, he had brought that which was much less healthful,various dark bottles of time-honored liquors. Partly in celebration of his return, and partly because of the superior quality of the goods that had accompanied him, his friend Ned raised his afternoon limit from two powerful pre-dinner cocktails to no less than four richly amber whiskies-and-sodas. Thus their meeting was auspicious, and on leaving the club, about seven, it came about that Ned Cornet met the rain. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 69070
Author: Marshall, Edison
Release Date: Sep 30, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Publication Date: 1923
Publisher Country: United States

Contributors

Illustrator: Duer, Douglas, 1887-1964