Edward Hurd Smith Edward Hurd Smith i(A76694 works by)
Gender: Male
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1 Tarantula Edward Hurd Smith , 1896 single work short story
— Appears in: The Australian Journal , June vol. 31 no. 373 1896; (p. 534-535) An Englishman working on a ranch in New Mexico for his health is taken from a dance hall to a dark hut a few miles away by a beautiful Indian girl. He has money on him to buy his own ranch and suspecting a trick finds a poisonous tarantula on the bed she leads him to. She puts the spider to her bosom when he suspects her and her father - whose innocent dupe she was - watches her die before the English cowboy kills him. The Englishman leaves the next day for California. Mixture of understatement and melodrama. (PB)
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