It removed a man from the world of hazard and adventure.
As a matter of fact, many of us did not hear of this death till months afterwards--from Schomberg, who disliked Heyst gratuitously and made up a piece of sinister whispered gossip: "That's what comes of having anything to do with that fellow.

He squeezes you dry like a lemon, then chucks you out--sends you home to die.

Take warning by Morrison!" Of course, we laughed at the innkeeper's suggestions of black mystery.
Several of us heard that Heyst was prepared to go to Europe himself, to push on his coal enterprise personally; but he never went.

It wasn't necessary.

The company was formed without him, and his nomination of manager in the tropics came out to him by post.
From the first he had selected Samburan, or Round Island, for the central station.