Serialization The Brute: A Desperate Tale
in The Hartford Courant (Hartford, CT, USA) (Apr 23, 1921 — Apr 26, 1921):
(Apr 23, 1921):
p.10 (Apr 24, 1921):
p.10 (Apr 25, 1921):
p.10 (Apr 26, 1921):
p.12 - First serialized as The Brute: Tale of a Bloodthirsty Brig in The Daily Chronicle (London, UK) (Dec 5, 1906)
- Subsequently serialized as The Brute: A Piece of Invective in McClure's Magazine (New York, NY, USA) (Nov 1907)
- Collected as The Brute in A Set of Six (1908)
- Subsequently serialized as The Brute: A Tale of a Ship That Wouldn't Behave in The Ocean Wireless News (New York, NY, USA) (Jan 1912)
- Subsequently serialized as The Brute: A Piece of Invective in The Milwaukee Journal (Milwaukee, WI, USA) (Apr 10, 1921)
- Subsequently serialized as The Brute in The New York Tribune (New York, NY, USA) (May 1, 1921)
- Subsequently serialized as The Brute in The Los Angeles Times (Los Angeles, CA, USA) (May 1, 1921)
- Subsequently serialized in The Syracuse Herald (Syracuse, NY, USA) (May 1, 1921)
- Subsequently serialized in The San Antonio Light (San Antonio, TX, USA) (May 1, 1921)
- Subsequently serialized in The Newark Sunday Call (Newark, NJ, USA) (May 1, 1921)
- Subsequently serialized in The Baltimore American (Baltimore, MD, USA) (May 8, 1921)
- Subsequently serialized as The Brute: An Indignant Tale in The Boston Sunday Globe (Boston, MA, USA) (Dec 2, 1923)
- Subsequently serialized as La Brute in La Revue de Genève (Geneva, Switzerland) (Feb 1924)
- Subsequently serialized as The Brute in The Argosy (London, UK) (Mar 1927)
- Subsequently serialized as The Brute in The Golden Book (New York, NY, USA) (Nov 1931)
- Subsequently serialized as The Brute (rpt) in The Argosy (London, UK) (Feb 1945)
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First installment of 1681 words begins on 23 April on p.10: "Dodging in from the rain-swept street. I exchanged a smile and a glance with Miss Blank in the bar of the Three Crows. This exchange was effected with extreme propriety. It is a shock to think that, if still alive. Miss Blank must be something over sixty now. How time passes!"
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Second installment of 1046 words begins on 24 April on p.10: ""This might have utterly spoiled a chap's nerve for going aloft, you know--utterly. He fell within two feet of me, cracking his head on a mooring-bitt. Never moved, Stonedead. Nice-looking little fellow he was. I had just been thinking we would be great chums. However..."
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Third installment of 1595 words begins on 25 April on p.10: "We were to tow right up to the dock. The river pilot boarded us below Gravesend, and the first words I heard him say were: 'You may just as well take your port anchor inboard at once. Mr. Mate.'"
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Fourth installment of 745 words begins on 26 April on p.12: "As I entered the parlor in rear of the bar of the Three Crows, a a stranger was declaring brutally, 'That fellow Wilmot fairly dashed her brains out and a good job, too.' In reply to my question he informed me that he was speaking of the "Apse Family."
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