![]() ![]() The great war was then at its very beginning, and the ocean forces of the Hun had not completely sunk to their later degradation so that our vessel was made a legitimate prize, whilst we of her crew were treated with all the fairness and consideration due us as naval prisoners. ![]() It was in one of the most open and least frequented parts of the broad Pacific that the packet of which I was supercargo fell a victim to the German sea-raider. When you have read these hastily scrawled pages you may guess, though never fully realise, why it is that I must have forgetfulness or death. Do not think from my slavery to morphine that I am a weakling or a degenerate. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below. I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. ![]()
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