10-Story Book, February 1928 — page 10: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Page 8: Story Prose from "The South Sea Island Number" This page contains prose fiction from a story appearing in what the masthead identifies as "The South Sea Island Number" of a pulp magazine. The narrative depicts a conflict between a ship's captain and crew members over shore leave during a whaling expedition. A junior officer requests permission to go ashore, but the captain refuses and dismisses the officer harshly. When disgruntled sailors complain to the captain, he responds dismissively. The narrator reflects on the incident and observes that some men are affected deeply by insults, though the narrator claims not to be bothered by the crew's complaints about him. The text is typical hardboiled pulp dialogue and internal monologue.