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Newspaper
Big Piney Examiner
Location
Big Piney, Wyoming, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1930
Page
7
The narrator recalls social pressures and a tangled farewell on a ship. Pia Laurier’s world, debt, and looming end collide as a lover’s glance and a threatening suitor heighten tension before the vessel sails away.
In Daru on the western Papuan coast the narrator returns to the island world of the South Seas. He recalls Pia Laurier and Sir Richard Fanshaw, feeling a strange, unsettled link between them while navigating the busy market, winds, and scent of frangipani. The scene closes on a cliffhanger as the tale continues.
Pholip Amory, an English World War veteran now a trader on the island of Papua New Guinea, leaps overboard to save a musical comedy star nicknamed Gin-Sling. HeFixes on Pig Laurier from a wealthy New South Wales family, shares knowledge of a great gold field but withholds the place name. Gin-Sling says Piat is engaged to Sir Richard Tanshay.
The piece notes that fears and annoyances peak between forty and sixty and advises removing oneself from tempting scenes. It recounts a quip about a boy and a pen shaping the future author Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, illustrating how early failures can spur later success.
A father in a 1930 Western Newspaper Union piece questions gambling’s appeal to youth. He cites pride, money misuse, theft risk, and loss of sportsmanship, urging honesty and restraint. He uses Charles Kingsley’s letters to warn against betting and its social harms.
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