WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS BY HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY, FRANK X. LEYENDECKER, W. GLACKENS, WILL CRAWFORD, AND H. L. V. PARKHURST PHILADELPHIA & LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1902 Copyright, 1902, by The Crowell & Kirkpatrick Company The Crowell & Kirkpatrick Company Copyright, 1902, by The Crowell Publishing Company The Crowell Publishing Company Copyright, 1902, by J. B. Lippincott Company J. B. Lippincott Company Published October, 1902 Electrotyped and Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U.S.A. Lovingly Dedicated to Margaret and Katharine Whose chief pleasure during one seashoresummer lay in listening to theirfather while thisromance was "Woven with the Ship" "Woven with the Ship" PREFACE Prefaces remind me of a certain text of Scripture,—i.e., "the last shall be first,"—for they are things written after which go before! Whether or not they serve a useful purpose is hard to say. I have several thousands of them in my library, most of which I have read, and perhaps the fact that I am a reader of prefaces may mark me as unique. And the mark may be accentuated to the gentle reader—if this preface should have any—when I say that I am also one of the few remaining authors who write them. Only one of my books is without a preface,—though some of them are
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