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Fortis Imaginatio single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1931... 1931 Fortis Imaginatio
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A snobbish naval probate-surgeon loses a French heiress to a plain-faced and plain-spoken English lieutenant, after a terrific night tussle with a supposed lance-head (fer-de-lance) snake that turns out to be the tail of a macaque monkey.

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