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A Project Gutenberg of Australia eBook Title: The People of the River Author: Edgar Wallace eBook No.: 0501111.txt Edition: 1 Language: English Character set encoding: Latin-1(ISO-8859-1)--8 bit Date first posted: November 2005 Date most recently updated: November 2005
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Title: The People of the River Author: Edgar Wallace
To SIR SAMUEL SCOTT, BART, M.P.
1. A CERTAIN GAME
SANDERS had been away on a holiday.
The Commissioner, whose work lay for the main part in wandering through a malarial country in some discomfort and danger, spent his holiday in travelling through another malarial country in as great discomfort and at no less risk. The only perceptible difference, so far as could be seen, between his work and his holiday was that instead of considering his own worries he had to listen to the troubles of somebody else.
Mr. Commissioner Sanders derived