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The Queen versus
Billy and
Other Stories
THE QUEEN VERSUS
BILLY AND
OTHER STORIES
By LLOYD OSBOURNE
Charles Scribner’s Sons
New York . . . . 1900
Copyright, 1900, by
Charles Scribner’s Sons
THE DEVINNE PRESS.
Contents
| Page | |
| The Queen versus Billy | 3 |
| The Beautiful Man of Pingalap | 31 |
| The Dust of Defeat | 65 |
| The Happiest Day of his Life | 109 |
| Father Zosimus | 127 |
| Frenchy’s Last Job | 171 |
| The Devil’s White Man | 213 |
| The Phantom City | 237 |
| Amatua’s Sailor | 287 |
THE QUEEN VERSUS BILLY
THE QUEEN VERSUS BILLY
IT was the Sandfly, Captain Toombs, that broughtthe news to Sydney and intercepted her Majesty’sthird-class cruiser Stingaree, as she lay in Man-of-WarCove, with her boats hoisted in and a deck-loadof coal as high as her bulwarks, on the eve of a longtrip into the western Pacific. It was the same oldstory—another white man sent to his last account inthe inhospitable Solomons, where if the climate doesnot kill you the black man soon will: “ThomasHysslop Biggar, commonly known as ‘Captain Tom’;aged forty-six; British subject; occupation, trader incoprah; place of residence, Sunflower Bay, island of