The Most Dangerous Game

"Off there to the proper—someplace—is a big island," stated Whitney. "it is alternatively a mystery—" "What island is it?" Rainsford asked. "The antique charts name it `deliver-trap Island,'" Whitney responded. "A suggestive name, isn't always it? Sailors have a curious dread of the place. I do not know why. a few superstition—" "cannot see it," remarked Rainsford, seeking to peer through the dank tropical night that become palpable because itpressed its thick heat blackness in upon the yacht.