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Richard Harding Davis. The Exiles and Other Stories
The Exiles and Other Stories
Table of Contents
ILLUSTRATIONS
THE EXILES
THE BOY ORATOR OF ZEPATA CITY
THE OTHER WOMAN
ON THE FEVER SHIP
THE LION AND THE UNICORN
THE LAST RIDE TOGETHER
MISS DELAMAR'S UNDERSTUDY
THE REPORTER WHO MADE HIMSELF KING
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Richard Harding Davis
Published by Good Press, 2019
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Far, far below, the weary camels lie—"
Holcombe laughed and shrugged his shoulders. He had stopped half-way down the hill on which stands the Bashaw's palace, and the whole of Tangier lay below him like a great cemetery of white marble. The moon was shining clearly over the town and the sea, and a soft wind from the sandy farm-lands came to him and played about him like the fragrance of a garden. Something moved in him that he did not recognize, but which was strangely pleasant, and which ran to his brain like the taste of a strong liqueur. It came to him that he was alone among strangers, and that what he did now would be known but to himself and to these strangers. What it was that he wished to do he did not know, but he felt a sudden lifting up and freedom from restraint. The spirit of adventure awoke in him and tugged at his sleeve, and he was conscious of a desire to gratify it and put it to the test.
