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And I suppose those two considerations , the practical and the mystical ,
prevented Heyst -Axel Heyst — from going away . The Tropical Belt Coal
Company went into liquidation . The world of finance is a mysterious world in
which , incredible ...
And I suppose those two considerations , the practical and the mystical ,
prevented Heyst -Axel Heyst — from going away . The Tropical Belt Coal
Company went into liquidation . The world of finance is a mysterious world in
which , incredible ...
Page 13
Axel Heyst was also a smoker ; and when he lounged out on his veranda with his
cheroot , the last thing before going to bed , he made in the night the same sort of
glow and of the same size as that other one so many miles away . In a sense ...
Axel Heyst was also a smoker ; and when he lounged out on his veranda with his
cheroot , the last thing before going to bed , he made in the night the same sort of
glow and of the same size as that other one so many miles away . In a sense ...
Page 14
On the nights of full moon the silence around Samburan — the “ Round Island " of
the chartswas dazzling ; and in the flood of cold light Heyst could see his
immediate surroundings , which had the aspect of an abandoned settlement
invaded ...
On the nights of full moon the silence around Samburan — the “ Round Island " of
the chartswas dazzling ; and in the flood of cold light Heyst could see his
immediate surroundings , which had the aspect of an abandoned settlement
invaded ...
Page 15
It was Axel Heyst , styled in the prospectus " manager in the tropics , ” remained
at his post on Samburan , the No. I coaling - station of the company . And it was
not merely a coaling - station . There was a coal - mine there , with an outcrop in ...
It was Axel Heyst , styled in the prospectus " manager in the tropics , ” remained
at his post on Samburan , the No. I coaling - station of the company . And it was
not merely a coaling - station . There was a coal - mine there , with an outcrop in ...
Page 16
He was not a traveller . A traveller arrives and departs , goes on somewhere .
Heyst did not depart . I met a man once — the manager of the branch of the
Oriental Banking Corporation in Malacca — to whom Heyst exclaimed , in no
connection ...
He was not a traveller . A traveller arrives and departs , goes on somewhere .
Heyst did not depart . I met a man once — the manager of the branch of the
Oriental Banking Corporation in Malacca — to whom Heyst exclaimed , in no
connection ...
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