The Steward

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Edgar Wallace. The Steward

The Steward

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I. — THE STEWARD AND THE SHARPS

No record of prior magazine published under this title found

II. — OVERDUE

No record of prior magazine published under this title found

III. — THE BUOY THAT DID NOT LIGHT

Published in: The Saturday Evening Post, Jan 13, 1923 The Grand Magazine, January 1924 Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January 1968, as "The Father Christmas Job"

IV. — THE LEFT PASS

Published in: The Pall Mall Magazine, December 1928 The Saint Detective Magazine (US), September 1954 &The Saint Detective Magazine (UK) April 1955 as "Dishonor Among Thieves"

V. — THE GHOST OF JOHN HOLLING

Published in: The Grand Magazine, Vol. 45, Mar-Aug, 1924 The Saturday Evening Post, March 8, 1924

VI. — THE LITTLE BARONESS

Published in: The Grand Magazine, Vol. 49, Mar-Aug, 1926 Collier's Weekly, September 11, 1926 The Saint Detective Magazine (UK), May 1964

VII. — SOLO AND THE LADY

Published in 20 Story Magazine, Odhams Ltd., October 1924

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VIII. — THE BARONS OF THE NIMBLE PACK

Published in: The Saturday Evening Post, June 3, 1922 The Grand Magazine, Vol, 41, Mar-Aug 1922 as "Lords of the Nimble Pack"

IX. — BLOOMING ALOES

First published in The Saturday Evening Post, Nov 24, 1923 Published in The Grand Magazine, Dec 1923, as "Should a Steward Tell?"

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Edgar Wallace

Published by Good Press, 2021

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"He was the sort of man who wanted a million dollars' worth of service for a five-dollar trip. He said that the company ought to pay the stewards a good salary and abolish tipping. He said it was degrading to a man to have to depend on the charity of passengers. He wouldn't have degraded me at all, only I always kept a sharp eye on him the morning he landed,

"I don't know where he got his wife from, but I believe from somewhere in New England. She was a lovely, scared-looking little thing—the last woman in the world you'd expect would make the supreme sacrifice of marrying a fat man. I can tell you that holding down the job of a rich man's wife is no cinch, and all my ideas about the cleverness of American women went west after they'd sailed with me.

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