Word: parton
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great gold watch-chain; he wore a suit of black with lace at the wrist and collar; once a week he walked, Bible in hand, through the streets to church. In the graveyard above the town was a tombstone which he had erected to the memory of one Richard Parton, Esq., his FORMER ASSOCIATE IN VENTURE OF TRADING, LOST...
...wild story rose, like a drowned cadaver, to the air. . . . How this man Parton had tried to kill Eliphalet ... how Eliphalet had marooned him on an island, sailed away in a ship whose cargo was a load of black, bewildered, suffering flesh from Africa . . . how hate had kept alive the man who walked like a cat and kept Eliphalet drumming with long yellow fingers on the counting-house table...
Strange events conspired in sea-sleepy Portsmouth. Eliphalet sent the boy Jervaile to kill Parton in a tavern; Parton bested him, went back with him to kill Eliphalet. They came upon the old merchant in his library at dawn; his ink had upset and a slow blot was spreading through the figures. "Look out of the window, Eliphalet," said Parton. Pushing back the shutters, Greer saw a tall ship treading in and out of the wind at the harbor's mouth-a clipper with raked masts and a forefoot like a seabird's beak, waiting there with...