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Loser Sleeper
John Steele Adventurer · May 21, 1953 · 23 min · 4,062 words
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The glory of a man who never belonged anywhere, whose backyard is the world, whose ways of life are the dreams of escape for those who want action but never find it. A man, John Steele, adventurer.
Those people spend most of their lives digging for wealth in one way or another. And only a few find it. Big money that is. Well, I was around when it happened. And really big stuff was found.
And you never know what greed can do until you're there to find out for yourself. I'd like to tell you what I found in the story I like to call Loser sleepers paid temporary foreign service for qualified personnel That's what the ad said the ad in the paper. I've never quite gotten over reading him
Well, the man at inter-world airlines said the same thing. Thank me for answering the employment notice and made me an offer That is he did when he found out I knew about isobars isotherms and adiabatic rate Three weeks later. I was in Port Edward on Africa's Gold Coast and it was hot It was a small coast of port, growing now, because the airlines had come in and taken over the
old military airbase. It's nothing to see and do, but it served as a good refueling stop. I soon found big charlays, the place where all the boys went after work. It was one night there was a fellow sitting next to me and wanted to talk.
You don't mind my putting in on your privacy, but you're American, right? Right. The tourist trade coming back? Do I look like a tourist? Yeah. Thanks. Chicago? No, haven't been to the States for ten years. Never gone back.
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