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Title: The Arrow of Gold
a story between two notes

Author: Joseph Conrad

Release Date: August 3, 2009 [eBook #1083]

Language: English

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Transcribed from the 1921 T. Fisher Unwin by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org

THE
ARROW OF GOLD

A STORY BETWEEN TWO NOTES

BY
JOSEPH CONRAD

Celui qui n'a connu que des hommes
polis et raisonnables, ou ne connait pas
l'homme, ou ne le connait qu'a demi.

CARACTERES.

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T. FISHER UNWIN, LTD.
LONDON: ADELPHI TERRACE

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_First published_ _August_ 1919
_Reprinted_ _December_ 1919
_Reprinted_ _October_ 1921

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ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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TO
RICHARD CURLE

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FIRST NOTE

The pages which follow have been extracted from a pile of manuscript
which was apparently meant for the eye of one woman only. She seems to
have been the writer's childhood's friend. They had parted as children,
or very little more than children. Years passed. Then something
recalled to the woman the companion of her young days and she wrote to
him: "I have been hearing of you lately. I know where life has brought
you. You certainly selected your own road. But to us, left behind, it
always looked as if you had struck out into a pathless desert. We always
regarded you as a person that must be given up for lost. But you have
turned up again; and though we may never see