The Chivalry of Captain Eckles
The Chivalry of Captain Eckles by Frank L. Packard, Lachine, P.Q., Canada. From the Fonds of Frank L. Packard; also published first in New Story Magazine , v3 #3, January 1912. 12000 words This story also appeared in Sea Stories magazine. I did quite a bit of work recovering the Sea Stories of A. Hyatt Verrill, nearly a decade ago with the assistance of a student librarian, since graduated. Verrill Over Seas was one such product. Another, Red Peter and Other Stories . Small world!/drf I. The Galway , of the M & G Line, was a tramp, frowsy of funnel, rusty of plate, a wanderer inveterate, whose comings and goings recognized neither schedule nor sea. China, the Persian Gulf or the North Atlantic, it mattered little to Messrs. MacNeil and Gleeson, the owners, who directed their letters to agents and skippers from a cobwebby office in Liverpool where their boats went or what they carried, so that they went somewhere and carried something—with profit. Therefore, there ...