"The Outpost" by H.P. Lovecraft

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"Pelf" is an archaic word for money, especially when gained in a dishonest or dishonorable way.

The picture used is an aerial view of Great Zimbabwe's Great Enclosure (circumference 250 m, maximum height 11 m) and adjacent ruins looking southeast from the Hill Fort, by Janice Bell, used here under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en).

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