Beach, Rex Ellingwood: The Spoilers. V1. 17 Nov 2010
 

Rex Ellingwood Beach (September 1, 1877 – December 7, 1949) was an American novelist, playwright, and Olympic water polo player.

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Glenister gazed out over the harbor, agleam with the lights of anchored ships, then up at the
crenelated mountains, black against the sky. He drank the cool air burdened with its taints
of the sea, while the blood of his boyhood leaped within him.