Kate Meredith, Financier
By Charles John Cutcliffe Wright Hyne
Length10h 18m
About this audiobook
Excerpt: ""Mighty beach to-day!" grumbled Captain Image, and handed binoculars across to the purser. Mr. Balgarnie tossed his cigarette over the lee rail and tucked a sheaf of papers into his mouth so as to have two spare hands. Day had ten minutes before glared up over an oily swell-writhing sea of bottle-green; dew lay in fat greasy gouts on the deck planks and the skylight frames, foretelling in clear prophecy another spell of scalding West African sunshine; and a mile out from the crashing, bellowing surf that smoked along the beach, the S.S. M'poso buttocked sullenly over the swells, with engines rung off, and sweating firemen on the top of the fiddley, slewing ventilators to catch a flavor of the breeze. "They've seen us, sir, at the factory," said Mr. Balgarnie. "All the boys are out working cargo, and there's old Swizzle-Stick Smith sucking his eternal pipe and hustling them with a chiquot. I can catch the glint of his eyeglass. Wonder how long that man's been out on the Coast? Must be a matter of twenty years now by all accounts since he had his last run home. He's found the right kind of ju-ju to dodge fever-palaver, anyhow. They say he's a lazy old beach-comber as a general thing, but he's up bright and early this morning.""
Audiobook details
GenreGeneral Fiction, Mystery and Thriller
Length10 hrs 18 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 29, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I A WEST COAST WELCOME
2CHAPTER II INTRODUCES MISS LAURA SLADE
3CHAPTER III THE KING WHO STOPPED THE ROADS
4CHAPTER IV THE BEACH BY MOONLIGHT
5CHAPTER V EVENTS AT MALLA-NULLA
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6CHAPTER VI THE COMING OF THE OKKY-MEN
7CHAPTER VII THE INVISIBLE FIRE
8CHAPTER VIII PRESENTS THE HEAD OF THE FIRM
9CHAPTER IX NAVIGATION OF DOG'S-LEG CREEK
10CHAPTER X ENVOYS IN COUNCIL
11CHAPTER XI AGAIN PRESENTS THE HEAD OF THE FIRM
12CHAPTER XII EXHIBITS ANTISEPTICS
13CHAPTER XIII AT THE LIVERPOOL END
14CHAPTER XIV TIN HILL: THE JOURNEY
15CHAPTER XV TIN HILL: THE MINE
16CHAPTER XVI THE KING'S BOUNTY
17CHAPTER XVII KATE SENDS A CABLEGRAM
18CHAPTER XVIII CARTER MAKES A PURCHASE
19CHAPTER XIX SENHOR CASCAES
20CHAPTER XX MAJOR MEREDITH
21CHAPTER XXI THE FEELING ON THE COAST
22CHAPTER XXII A FISHERMAN AND HIS CATCH
23CHAPTER XXIII THE SONG OF SPEED
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