Six Thousand Tons of Gold

6,000 Tons of Gold

BY H. R. CHAMBERLAIN London Correspondent of The Sun, New York. {4} Copyright, 1894 By Flood & Vincent Entered at Stationers Hall, London By H. R. Chamberlain The Chautauqua-Century Press, Meadville, Pa., U. S. A. Electrotyped, Printed, and Bound by Flood & Vincent. The steamship Elbe had crossed the equator on her long passage from Southampton to Buenos Ayres in September, 1893. All but the final phases of a well-regulated, fair-weather voyage on a big passenger ship had duly presented themselves. The first irksomeness of the long monotony had worn off; the invalids had begun to enjoy the slow, lazy rolling which at first had been their hopeless undoing; companions of a fortnight were exchanging confidences which the friendship of years on land would not have induced. The frankness, the unrestraint, the offguard good fellowship of life at sea held full sway. We are concerned with only two of the numerous ships company. Strangers to each other and to all on board at the outset of the voyage, they had by this time formed rather an odd intimacy. Men of widely different types, it would be difficult to discover any natural bond of sympathy between Robert Brent and Duncan Fraser. The one an American, whose quiet, self-possessed bearing had in it that indescrib{8}able ease of manner which is the unfailing mark of thorough acquaintance with men and affairs in the best phases of fin de sicle existence. The other a Scotchman, of rougher mold, more advanced in years, and whose natural keenness had been sharpened into an intuitive suspicion by much grinding against the unpolished side of human nature. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 58269
Author: Chamberlain, Henry Richardson
Release Date: Nov 11, 2018
Format: eBook
Language: English