The Pavilion on the Links (annotated)

"The Pavilion on the Links" (1880) is a short story by Robert Louis Stevenson. It was first published in Cornhill Magazine (Vol. 42, Sept-Oct 1880).A revised version was included in The New Arabian Nights (1882). The story was considered by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1890 as "the high-water mark of [Stevenson's] genius" and "the first short story in the world'".[3] Along with a number of other stories it was collected in a volume entitled The New Arabian Nights in 1882. This collection is se...