A Newspaper Tragedy of Two Journalists on a London Daily
Two former schoolfellows Edward Sinclair and Henry Ross rise from different temperaments to staff a major London daily. Sinclair’s orderly restraint contrasts with Ross’s wild, poetic daring, as they share office space and a troubled dynamic with Sinclair’s wife Mrs. Sinclair.
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London
Edward Sinclair
Henry Ross
Ross
Sinclair
Surbiton
Ace
Salvation Army
Poeta
Comet
Canada
Texas
Australia
Rolf Boldrewood
Manchester
Grist
Rosas
Night Editor Faces a Jealous Web of Love and Betrayal
Sinclair rehearses doubt after an anonymous letter accuses his wife Mrs. Sinclair and his friend Ross of an affair. Consumed by jealousy he confronts Ross at dawn, returns home, and discovers his wife at the mirror as accusations and anger explode into violence.
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Howard
Mra Sinclair
Ross
Antipodes
Sinclair
Emmie
Shipwreck scoop fuels late night newsroom turmoil
In a chaotic scene at the newspaper, Ross rushes to press after a sensational telegram about a deadly shipwreck. Sinclair, shaken and absent, loses his wife in a tide of guilt but regains purpose as the paper thrives. Meanwhile a separate narrator recounts a colonial tale of Molly and a pirate cousin at New Haven.
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Sinclair
Aun
Sub
Ross
Borta
Brighton
Hosa
A Tale of Early New York and a Wedding Promise
A narrator recalls New Amsterdam by the Battery with a ship arriving in summer as he and his beloved Molly Van Dusen pledge vows. His beloved grows weary from heat as her father plans sending her to Connecticut. The scene marks a joyful memory and the plighting of their troth.
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New Amsterdam
Molly
Connecticut
Molly van Dusen
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Charles Dawbarn Pape
Herbert de Dace
Oss
Aaronackermay
Boston
Long Island Sound
New Haven
Battery
Hudson's River
Mr. Mathews
Mistress van Dusen
Patience Mathews
New York
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