Billy and the Big Stick
Billy Barlow, American superintendent of the electric-lighting plant in the capital of Hayti, loves Claire Ducrot, daughter of Widow Ducrot in the little French-speaking city. The president ... Read allBilly Barlow, American superintendent of the electric-lighting plant in the capital of Hayti, loves Claire Ducrot, daughter of Widow Ducrot in the little French-speaking city. The president of Hayti refuses to pay Billy's salary and the widow plans to give Claire to Paillard, a w... Read allBilly Barlow, American superintendent of the electric-lighting plant in the capital of Hayti, loves Claire Ducrot, daughter of Widow Ducrot in the little French-speaking city. The president of Hayti refuses to pay Billy's salary and the widow plans to give Claire to Paillard, a widower. Billy, desperate, shuts off the city's light supply by going to bed and refusing t... Read all