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Title: Captain Macedoine's Daughter

Author: William McFee

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Language: English

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CAPTAIN MACEDOINE'S DAUGHTER

By William McFee

Author of "ALIENS", "CASUALS OF THE SEA", "LETTERS FROM AN OCEAN TRAMP,"
"PORT SAID MISCELLANY"

Garden City New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1920

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

"It is an amiable but disastrous illusion on the part of the
western nations that they have created a monopoly in freedom and
truth and the right conduct of life."--_Mr. Spenlove_

TO
PAULINE

DEDICATORY

There is an hour or so before the train comes puffing round the curve of
the Gulf from Cordelio, and you are gone down into the garden for a
while because the mosquitoes become tiresome later, and the great
shadows of the cypresses are vanishing as the sun sinks behind the
purple islands beyond the headlands. You will stay there for a while
among the roses and jasmine, and then you will come in and say: "There
it is!" And together we will slip and stumble and trot down the steep
hillside to the level-crossing, and we will run along to the little
station, so like ours in America. And when the train is come creaking
and groaning and squealing to a standstill, I shall climb in, while you
will stand for a moment looking.... You will wave as we start with the
usual prodigious jerk, and then you will run back and climb up to the
house again, banging the big iron gate securely shut....

All just as before.

But this time there is this difference, that I am not coming back. I am
ordered to return to England, and I am to sail to-morrow morning. Now,
as I have told you more than once, it is very difficult to k