Maugham, from their vast mental horizons of South Sea idylls and lone men brooding on lone coral islands, could not conceive a more ple~ turesque incident than that re ported by the three American Seaplanes taking part in the search for Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam lost in the Paeifle, Landing at Hull Island, which escapes mention on any but the most elaborate maps, tone of the machines, after searing the total native population of 30, alighted 8 lagoon, and the pilots must have been greatly astonished when ther' were welcomed by a solitary white an who greeted them with a heerio." It is said he wore white ducks and had his head clipped, but even in this remote part of the Pacific ud even if he did not wear a monocle to add the hall mark of national identification it can safely be said that he was an Englishman by his remark, Unfortunately, the American pilots were unable to catch his name but the impression they gained was that he is a cheerful soul and has 0 radio to while away the hot tropical days, although he had never heard of the flight which has had such an unfortunate interruption. Mystery, romance, adventure, a broken heart, 8 desire for solitude, a fugitive from justice for an uncommitted crime, a scientist lured to seck some age-long secret hidden in the deep waters of the Pacite—all these are clem"
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