The People that Time Forgot, by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Title: The People That Time Forgot
Author: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Chapter 1
I am forced to admit that even though I had traveled a long distance
to place Bowen Tyler’s manuscript in the hands of his father,
I was still a trifle skeptical as to its sincerity, since I could
not but recall that it had not been many years since Bowen had been
one of the most notorious practical jokers of his alma mater. The
truth was that as I sat in the Tyler library at Santa Monica I
commenced to feel a trifle foolish and to wish that I had merely
forwarded the manuscript by express instead of bearing it personally,
for I confess that I do not enjoy being laughed at. I have a
well-developed sense of humor–when the joke is not on me.
Mr. Tyler, Sr., was expected almost hourly. The last steamer in
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