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    The Ebony Stick
    The Ebony Stick
    The Ebony Stick
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    The Ebony Stick

    By Earl Derr Biggers

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    No sooner had Bob from the Silver Star ranch reached Italy than a telegram arrived asking for $1,000. A pretty woman was behind it, but that wasn’t all. This early work by Earl Derr Biggers was originally published in 1916. „The Ebony Stick” is one of Biggers shorter stories, published after his death. The son of Robert J. and Emma E. (Derr) Biggers, Earl Derr Biggers was born in Warren, Ohio, and graduated from Harvard University in 1907. While on holiday in Hawaii, Biggers heard tales of a real-life Chinese detective operating in Honolulu, named Chang Apana. This inspired him to create his most enduring legacy in the character of super-sleuth Charlie Chan. Many of his plays and novels were made into movies.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKtoczyta.pl
    Release dateOct 22, 2017
    ISBN9788381360180
    The Ebony Stick
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    Earl Derr Biggers

    Earl Derr Biggers (1884-1933) was an American novelist and playwright. Born in Ohio, Biggers went on to graduate from Harvard University, where he was a member of The Harvard Lampoon, a humor publication for undergraduates. Following a brief career as a journalist, most significantly for Cleveland-based newspaper The Plain Dealer, Biggers turned to fiction, writing novels and plays for a popular audience. Many of his works have been adapted into film and theater productions, including the novel Seven Keys to Baldpate (1913), which was made into a Broadway stage play the same year it was published. Towards the end of his career, he produced a highly popular series of novels centered on Honolulu police detective Charlie Chan. Beginning with The House Without a Key (1925), Biggers intended his character as an alternative to Yellow Peril stereotypes prominent in the early twentieth century. His series of Charlie Chan novels inspired dozens of films in the United States and China, and has been recognized as an imperfect attempt to use popular media to depict Chinese Americans in a positive light.

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      The Ebony Stick - Earl Derr Biggers

      Earl Derr Biggers

      The Ebony Stick

      Warsaw 2017

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      AT nine o’clock on a bright June morning Clay Garrett, colored, intermittent sweeper and duster of the leading bank in a large Texas city, opened the heavy doors that led from the street into that most marble of bank interiors. Two minutes later–this being also part of the regular schedule–Major Tellfair, white-haired but erect, crossed the threshold, nodded to Clay and to the boys behind the bars, and passed into the office where he ruled as president. There he opened his desk, lighted a cigar, and began the perusal of his morning paper.

      He had got no farther than the headlines of the first page when the door of his office opened and young Dick Merrill of the Silver Star Ranch came in. Merrill was covered with the dust he had collected on his ride in from the ranch that morning. Lighting his face was the Merrill smile, human and kindly, and it brought the major to his feet in hearty welcome.

      Sit down, Dick, he said. Beautiful morning, ain’t it? How are things out at the Silver Star?

      The Silver Star’s all right, Merrill answered. But, say, I got a cablegram from Bob this morning. He explored a pocket. Here it is. I wish you’d read it. Bob’s in Italy–at a place called Rome–over there among them I-talians.

      His tone was as disapproving as the pleasant Merrill tone could be. He deposited his husky length in a mahogany chair and waited for the major to adjust his glasses. The bank president noted the truth of Merrill’s scornful statement as to Rome, and then read the message slowly:

      Cable thousand dollars immediately. Care National Express. Keep matter under hat, Bob.

      What do you make of it, major? Merrill asked.

      The major smiled.

      It looks to me like somebody had annexed your brother’s roll, he replied.

      That’s how I figure it, Merrill said, also with a smile. He’s been in Italy less than a week too–they work fast, them boys. Bob had two thousand dollars small change, along with all his tickets, which he bought from this man Cook in New York. I hope they didn’t clean him out of those too. Well, it serves him right for wandering off the range. He ain’t got no business over on the other side.

      The major cleared his throat.

      I don’t wish to seem inquisitive, he said. But I was utterly at a loss to understand your brother’s sudden dash for Europe, particularly at a time when the nations over there are engaged in the most bloody and terrible warfare–

      A woman, interrupted Dick Merrill. It was a woman that done it. Maybe you remember her–Celia Ware–she used to sing at church concerts hereabouts a few years back.

      "Ah, yes, I

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