THE MAN FROM SOLANO

THE OFFICE SEEKER

A SLEEPING-CAR EXPERIENCE

MORNING ON THE AVENUE

WITH THE ENTREES




DRIFT FROM TWO SHORES



THE MAN ON THE BEACH


I


He lived beside a river that emptied into a great ocean. The
narrow strip of land that lay between him and the estuary was
covered at high tide by a shining film of water, at low tide with
the cast-up offerings of sea and shore. Logs yet green, and
saplings washed away from inland banks, battered fragments of
wrecks and orange crates of bamboo, broken into tiny rafts yet
odorous with their lost freight, lay in long successive curves,--