THE INTERLOPERS by SAKI

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2018

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Two men, both having been feuding over property rights for years, meet one another at night while hunting each other in the forest, only to have a lightening-struck tree fall upon them, pinning them both down. Siad to be one of HH Munro's (Saki) best. SUPPORT OUR SHOW MONTHLY AT PATREON Become an Assistant Producer at 1001 Stories Network ( a great resume enhancement) and support us at Patreon today! Here;s the link: https://www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork\ YOUR REVIEWS AT APPLE/ITUNES ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! Catch RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 HEROES now at Apple iTunes Podcast App: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2 Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at iTunes/apple Podcast App Now: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622?mt=2 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at iTunes/Apple Podcast now: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901?mt=2 ANDROID USERS- CATCH OUR SHOWS AT WWW.CASTBOX.FM SUBSCRIBE FREE THEN SHARE THANK YOU 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Classic-Short-Stories-%26-Tales-id381734?country=us 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Heroes%2C-Legends%2C-Histories-%26-Mysteries-Podcast-id1114843?country=us 1001 Stories for the Road: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Stories-For-The-Road-id1324757?country=us Catch ALL of our shows at one place by going to www.1001storiesnetwork.com- our home website with Megaphone. Website For 1001 Heroes is still www.1001storiespodcast.com (we redirected that one to www.1001storiesnetwork.com) Website For 1001 Classic Short Stories is still www.1001classicshortstories.com ( we redirected that as well) Website for 1001 Stories For The Road is still www.1001storiesfortheroad (we redirected that one, too) Website for 1001 Radio Days is www.1001radiodays.com Links: Our Twitter: @1001podcast Our Facebook: www.Facebook.com/1001Heroes Our Email: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the The Welcome to another episode from 1001 Classic classic short stories and tales this one from
0:34.9	British author H. H. Monroe also known as sake. The interlopers was first published in his
0:42.3	1919 collection The Toys of Peace and other papers.
0:46.7	The Toys of Peace is in our archives and is one of my favorites.
0:50.8	The Interlopers is set in the eastern Carpathian mountains and focuses on two men,
0:55.8	George Zainam and Ulrich von Gradowitz.
0:59.2	The story tracking a territorial conflict between their families that has grown out of control.
1:05.8	Think of them as the Hatfields and the McCoy's of Euro-Russian Desed.
1:10.2	Focusing primarily on themes of revenge and the futility of holding grudges, the story takes the two men's feud and escalates it until it reaches a tragic conclusion.
1:20.0	It focuses on how the two men in their obsession with and pursuit of each other have become alike in their actions and blind to the real threats facing them.
1:30.0	This story is considered one of Saaki's most memorable and effective stories.
1:35.9	And now the interlopers by Saki.
1:41.5	In a forest of mixed growth, somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Carpathians, a man stood one winter night watching and listening, as though he waited for some beast of the woods to come within the range of his vision,
1:54.1	and later of his rifle. But the game for whose presence he kept so keen an outlook
2:00.1	was none that figured in the sportsman's calendar as lawful and proper for the chase.
2:05.0	Ulrich von Gradwitz patrolled the dark forest in quest of a human enemy.
2:12.0	The forest lands of graduates were of wide extent and well stocked with game.
2:17.0	The narrow strip of precipitous woodland that lay on its outskirt was not remarkable for the game at Harvard or the shooting it afforded, but it was the most
2:26.7	jealously guarded of all its owner's territorial possessions. A famous lawsuit in the days of his grandfather had rested it from the
2:35.1	illegal possession of a neighboring family of petty landowners. The
2:39.0	Dis possessed party had never acquiesced in the judgment of the courts, and a long series of poaching
2:44.7	a phrase and similar scandals had embittered the relationships between the
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