The Quickening of Caliban: RN STORY OF EVOLUTION. BY MPTON RICKETT, AUTHOR OF THAT IS TO BE A LATTER-DAY ROMANCE." AND COMPANY, LIMITED: DON, PARIS AND MELBOURNE. [ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.] [189-3 B 18 Jan 1943 'S The Quickening of Caliban: A MODERN STORY OF EVOLUTION. I. In the tropics Life is supreme, and the change of day to night only shifts the scene, but does not check the drama. Life stalks across the stage, the lion of the play, followed by his shadow, the lean, hungry jackal-Death. THE morning surged along the river valley like a tidal wave, and Paul Ruefold put out the lamp, as he could now see the African village on the opposite shore. The cluster of huts with a feather work of forest at their back, the large canoes with their jagged stems in air, stood out clearly, and the scattered barking and cackling showed that the village was awake, and that the work of the day had begun. His letters were finished, and were ready for the mail-bag. In a few hours the fussy frail steam barge would come down-stream and tether to the bank. It B |