Richard Harding Davis - Unfinished Story

A very congenial dinner party is ongoing. Among the distinguished guests are also one author and one painter, who have just been told that their work does not reflect reality. Their work is good, of course, but reality is different than in the paintings and in the novels. Suddenly and unexpectedly, the young explorer Gordon says that sometimes, life contains stories so outrageous that they would never be printed in novels. He has one to tell as an example. — Summary by Carolin