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War broke out in August, 1914, as everyone knows. In the October of that same memorable year, Garry Redmond, descending from the Far-alone country to the comparative civilisation of the All-alone, found in the possession of John Akkamuk a bottle, with a scrap of newspaper stuck to it.
Squatting in the thick murk of John Akkamuk's winter house, Garry lifted the bottle to the lamplight, and read the paper.