02603cam a22003613u 4500 76815 UtSlPG 20260610134758.0 m cr n 260607r20251918utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 PS Steele, Wilbur Daniel, 1886-1970 A devil of a fellow, and The yellow cat Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Little blue books series no. 906 Release date is 2025-09-04 Tim Miller, Laura Natal and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "A devil of a fellow, and The yellow cat by Wilbur Daniel Steele" is a collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. Set on Cape Cod and at sea, the book probes love, guilt, and superstition as ordinary people are tested by passion, fear, and the uncanny. In “A Devil of a Fellow,” the swaggering fisherman Tony Va Di returns to his Cape town after months presumed dead to find his old flame, Mamie, hastily married to an aging shopkeeper who has just drowned. Through a night of labor, town gossip, and his own jealousy, Tony is forced into tenderness; the baby Mamie bears plainly favors him, and his bravado softens into a grudging acceptance of love and responsibility. “The Yellow Cat” follows a narrator visiting an abandoned schooner brought in by his shaken friend McCord, who blames eerie happenings on a silent yellow cat. A hidden log hints at crew paranoia about a Chinese cook; a sailor vanishes; and, with the cat as their clue, they find the cook’s stash and papers concealed in the foretopsail before he slips away into the river. The sea “mystery” resolves into human fear, prejudice, and nerve, with the cat merely a catalyst for men undone by isolation. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: Girard: Haldeman-Julius Publications, 1918 Short stories, American American fiction -- 20th century Haldeman-Julius, E. (Emanuel), 1888-1951 Little blue books series no. 906 https://archive.org/details/deviloffellowand906stee/page/8/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76815 117540 117540