The Overman

The Overman

This is the story of Edward , as he told it to me only a few days before he died; he told it as he lay half paralysed, and knowing that the hand of death was upon him. I am by profession a scientist. My story goes back some fifty years, when I was a student. I had one brother, Daniel, five years younger than myself, a musician of extraordinary promise. We lived abroad together for a number of years, 4each pursuing his own work. About my brother, suffice it to say that music to him was everythinglove and friendship, ambition and life. He was a man without a stain, whose lower nature had been burned out by the flame of art. I think the one tie that bound him to the world was myself. When Daniel was about twenty-three years of age, his health weakened, and a long sea voyage was decided upon. I could not go with him, so for the first time we parted; and it was twenty years after that before I ever heard of him again. 5It was believed that the ship had been wrecked in the South Seas; and I had given him up for dead many years, when it chanced that, as a man advanced in life, I was travelling as a naturalist in Ceylon, and met an old sailor who had been with my brother, and who told me a strange storyhow one boat containing five men, including Daniel, had outlived the storm and landed upon an uninhabited island; how, after remaining there for several months, they had made up their minds to risk a voyage in their frail craft; and how my brother alone had refused, 6declaring his intention to remain by himself, with his violin and the few effects that he had saved. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 67732
Author: Sinclair, Upton
Release Date: Mar 29, 2022
Format: eBook
Language: English
Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company,1906
Publication Date: 1906
Publisher Country: United States