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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