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...plunge in the surf from the long beach where the tide comes in like a racing current . . . . a last glance from the bluffs where the lighthouse blinks across the sea toward Portugal . . . . a last look at the rose-covered cottages, the winding streets, the open moors where the red deer browse . . . . a warning whistle from the boat . . . . assorted farewells . . . . the little yachts with the bright-colored sails fade away in the twilight . . . . back to Boston, back to Cambridge, back to politics, depression, newspapers, prohibition, bad weather, books and autumn . . . . And then cometh Atropos...
...estate. Mr. Candler began collecting animals four months ago. In cages along the estate wall he placed a Bengal tiger, five elephants (including Rosie, world's largest), a pair of black leopards, a pair of lions (the female is expectant), a pair of llamas which recently had issue, deer, camels, Himalayan goats, zebras, Shetland ponies imported from Germany, eight bears of assorted colors, monkeys, chimpanzees, Japanese red-faced apes, 13 flamingos (one of the best collections in the U. S.), hundreds of birds, from Australian parakeets to American eagle. Practically all of the beasts & birds were acquired from Benson...
...fourth broke his neck looking at the scenery between Sarasota and New York), many a seal (the best known of which plays crazily on a horn), and a variegated assortment of porcupines, camels, cranes, storks, milgai, kangaroos, monkeys, baboons, dromedaries, tapirs, leopards, hippopotamuses, hyenas, bears, gnus, parrots & macaws, deer, pumas, an audad, a bok and a gemsbuck. There were many horses (735 by the program) and many a zebra. There were such subhuman animals as The Men from Mars (albino Negroes), Cliko the Bushman (who reads philosophy when not exhibiting himself), giants, giantesses, midgets, snake charmers, contortionists, fat ladies...
Thurso's wife, Helen, fears him more than she loves him, hates his destructive will that is irreversible as the tide. After a deer-killing she runs off with Thurso's friend, Rick Armstrong, and hides successfully for a year. When Thurso tracks her down she goes off with him quickly, to save a meeting between, him and her lover. On the way home Thurso pretends to break down the car, waits in the desert for Armstrong's pursuit. But Armstrong does not pursue; all Thurso can kill is a lizard that rambles...
...lieutenant approached, calling for the fugitive to surrender peaceably, he could see that the man's clothing was a, patchwork of deer and rabbit skins. Incongruity upon incongruity, the man appeared to be a Negro. The discharge of a sawed-off shotgun was his answer to the police. Then he jumped through a window, started running...