091- Seeds of Greed
Escape · December 27, 1949 · 29 min · 4,382 words
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Tired of the everyday routine, ever dream of a life of romantic adventure, who want to get away from it all? We offer you escape, escape, designed to free you from the four walls of today for a half hour of high adventure.
Tonight we escape to a small ship off the coast of Borneo, and an exciting tale of murderous greed, as Freud A. Nelson tells it in his strange story, seeds of greed. This is it, the romantic South Pacific, the languid lure of the tropics.
I ship at my command to take me anyplace I might choose, A jewel tiara of sky above, and an ocean of emerald velvet below. To my left, the languid coast of Borneo. To my right, the Sulu archipelago.
Such romance. Such gentleness. Such maddening, unbearable gentleness. Not long ago, there was a carefree little monument to failure, reaping the rewards of my My college education and the atmosphere, a hitch in the Navy, had taught me to love and live.
The waterfront. Maybe it's the atmosphere, maybe it's the people you meet, or maybe it's the margin you can make on the exchange of drinks with guys in Port Fatwood, Cipe. Take this guy Lee, for instance.
An oriental little guy who's correct English told you it was adopted. I had him figured wrong from the beginning. Mr. Braun? Mr. Kenneth Braun? Yeah, yeah, that's right. My name is Lee. Lee Zetum, if you prefer.
I don't. Oh, may I join you? Oh, sure, surely. Pull up a buck for a couple of rings and sit down. Certainly. Yeah. Oh, same thing here. OK. What's yours, Lee? Nothing, thank you. I do not indulge.
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