"Black Heart and White Heart" from Black Heart and White Heart and Other Stories

'O Black Heart and body that is white and beautiful, I look into your heart'

Philip Hadden was a transport-rider and a trader in 'the Zulu'.

So he fled straight on

Already his finger was contracting on the trigger

A very picture of gentle despair

A very picture of gentle despair.

'Black Heart, you seem to have won the day'