plot: marlow tells story, river thames, belgian congo, rescue ivory trade, but horrified and the exploit, at company station hear about mr kurtz, ( company's best agent ), taken ill, other jelous, does not recover, after attacked by tribesmen, and memeber hope died, up river, met young russian, follower of kurtz,discover riverbank see humaan heads kurtz died in retur, last word: horror ( darkenss whitin humanity ) , and his girls friends: her name