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Subscribe to our free eBooks blog and email newsletter  \n‘Sofoul a sky clears without a storm.’  \n-SHAKESPEARE  \nTO  \nJOHN GALSWORTHY  \n􀀓 Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard  \nAUTHOR’S NOTE  \n‘NOSTROMO’longer novelsishheicmhobsteloanngxitooslhy me peerdiiotadtedfollof thowineg upon the publication of the ‘Typhoon’ volume of short stories.  \nI don’t mean to say that I became then conscious of any impending change in my mentality and in my attitude towards the tasks of my writing life. And perhaps there was never any change, except in that mysterious, extraneous thing which has nothing to do with the theories of art; a subtle change in the nature of the inspiration; a phenomenon for which I can not in any way be held responsible. What, however, did cause me some concern was that after finishing the last story of the ‘Typhoon’ volume it seemed somehow that there was nothing more in the world to write about.  \nThis so strangely negative but disturbing mood lasted some little time; and then, as with many of my longer stories, the first hint for ‘Nostromo’ came to me in the shape of a vagrant anecdote completely destitute of valuable details. As a matter offact in 1875 or ‘6, when very young, in the West Indies or rather in the Gulf of Mexico, for my contacts with land were short, few, and fleeting, I heard the story of some man who was supposed to have stolen single-handed a whole lighter-full of silver, somewhere on the Tierra  \n[Free eBooks at](Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com)[ Planet eBook.com](Free eBooks at Planet eBook.com) 􀀒  \nFirme seaboard during the troubles ofa revolution.  \nOn the face of it this was something of a feat. But I heard no details, and having no particular interest in crime qua crime I was not likely to keep that one in my mind. And I forgot it till twenty-six or seven years afterwards I came upon the very thing in a shabby volume picked up outside a second-handbook-shop. It was the life story of an American seaman written by himself with the assistance of a journalist. In the course of his wanderings that American sailor worked for some months on board a schooner, the master and owner of which was the thief of whom I had heard in my very young days. I have no doubt of that because there could hardly have been two exploits ofthat peculiar kind in the same part of the world and both connected with a South American revolution.  \nThe fellow had actually managed to steal a lighter with silver, and this, it seems, only because he was implicitly trusted by his employers, who must have been singularly poor judges of character. In the sailor’s story he is represented as an unmitigated rascal, a small cheat, stupidly ferocious, morose, of mean appearance, and altogether unworthy of the greatness this opportunity had thrust upon him. What was interesting was that he would boast ofit openly.  \nHe used to say: ‘People think I make a lot of money in this schooner of mine. But that is nothing. I don’t care for that. Now and then I go away quietly and lift a bar of silver. I must get rich slowly—you understand.’  \nThere was also another curious point about the man. Once in the course of some quarrel the sailor threatened  \n􀀊 Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard  \nhim: ‘What’s to prevent me reporting ashore what you have told me about that silver?’  \nThe cynical ruffian was not alarmed in the least. He actually laughed. ‘You fool, if you dare talk like that on shore about me you will get a knife stuck in your back. Every man, woman, and child in that port is my friend. And who’s to prove the lighter wasn’t sunk? I didn’t show you where the silver is hidden. Did I? So you know nothing. And suppose I lied? Eh?’  \nUltimately the sailor, disgusted with the sordid meanness of that impenitent thief, deserted from the schooner. The whole episode takes about three pages of his autobiography. 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