Victory: An Island Tale, Volume 1Louis Conard, 1916 - 276 pages |
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Page 39
... coal got out . These manifestations shook the soberest minds . For a time everybody in the islands was talking of the Tropical Belt Coal , and even those who smiled quietly to themselves were only hiding their uneasi- ness . Oh , yes ...
... coal got out . These manifestations shook the soberest minds . For a time everybody in the islands was talking of the Tropical Belt Coal , and even those who smiled quietly to themselves were only hiding their uneasi- ness . Oh , yes ...
Page 46
... mine ? ' I asked him . " Something of the sort , ' he says . " I am keeping hold . ' “ But all this is as dead as Julius ... Belt Coal Company - A . Heyst , manager in the East . Davidson , a good , simple fellow in his way 46 VICTORY .
... mine ? ' I asked him . " Something of the sort , ' he says . " I am keeping hold . ' “ But all this is as dead as Julius ... Belt Coal Company - A . Heyst , manager in the East . Davidson , a good , simple fellow in his way 46 VICTORY .
Page 53
... business to attend to . We said Sourabaya , of course , and took it for granted that he would stay with one of the ... Belt Coal fiasco . But Davidson set us right . It was nothing of the kind . Heyst went to stay in Schomberg's hotel ...
... business to attend to . We said Sourabaya , of course , and took it for granted that he would stay with one of the ... Belt Coal fiasco . But Davidson set us right . It was nothing of the kind . Heyst went to stay in Schomberg's hotel ...
Page 65
... Belt Coal Company , still emerg- ing from a wild growth of bushes like an inscription stuck above a grave figured by the tall heap of unsold coal at the shore end of the wharf , added to the general desolation . Thus the sensitive ...
... Belt Coal Company , still emerg- ing from a wild growth of bushes like an inscription stuck above a grave figured by the tall heap of unsold coal at the shore end of the wharf , added to the general desolation . Thus the sensitive ...
Page 76
... Belt Coal Company when becoming for a moment a public character he was the object of silly criticism and unintelligent envy for every vagabond and adventurer in the islands . Davidson concluded that people liked to discuss that sort of ...
... Belt Coal Company when becoming for a moment a public character he was the object of silly criticism and unintelligent envy for every vagabond and adventurer in the islands . Davidson concluded that people liked to discuss that sort of ...
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