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James Hilton. Contango
Contango
Table of Contents
CHAPTER ONE. — CHARLES GATHERGOOD
CHAPTER TWO. — FLORENCE FAULKNER
CHAPTER THREE. — STUART BROWN
CHAPTER FOUR. — SYLVIA SEYDEL
CHAPTER FIVE. — NICHOLAS PALESCU
CHAPTER SIX. — LEON MIRSKY
CHAPTER SEVEN. — MAX OETZLER
CHAPTER EIGHT. — PAULA COURVIER
CHAPTER NINE. — HENRY ELLIOTT
THE END
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James Hilton
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Events, however, prevented Gathergood from keeping his promise. That very night, while he was asleep under his mosquito-net, a score or more planters, fully armed, marched on the Sultan’s palace, forced an entrance, kidnapped Naung Lo from his prison-cell, and hanged him from a tree in the jungle less than a mile away.
Gathergood did not hear of this till the morning, when his house-boy brought him the sensational news. He was, for him, immensely disconcerted. He was even, when he had begun to consider it, appalled. In all that the Morrison case had so far meant to him, there had been simply the question of the accused man’s probable guilt or innocence. Of the tangled interplay of motive, racial and political, that might lie beyond that straightforward issue, he had been remotely aware, but he had shrunk from it; he lacked intricacy of vision, and his instinct was always to ignore the intangible. Now, at a stroke, the merely judicial question had been transformed into a matter of vaster significance which he took some time to comprehend. He sat for over an hour before his office-desk, thinking things out with an entire absence of personal passion that concealed, nevertheless, a growing inward uneasiness. The day was warming up; clammy and so far sunless, it sent hardly a ripple of sea moving over the sandbars of the estuary, and the tops of the rubber-planted foothills soared into a creamy haze. Towards midday he sent a boy with written messages to all the planters, asking them to meet him in the club-house during the afternoon. That done, he deliberately wrote business letters as usual and gave the daily orders to his Chinese cook; after which, having taken a drink and a sandwich, he walked up the hill to the club-house.
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