Woven with the Ship: A Novel of 1865

  _Part II_

  VERACIOUS TALES OF VARIOUS SORTS

  "When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, Men will believe, because they love the lie; But truth herself, if clouded with a frown, Must have some solemn proof to pass her down."

  CHURCHILL

  "'Tis strange--but true, for truth is always strange, Stranger than fiction."

  BYRON

  "Variety's the very spice of life."

  COWPER

  Copyright, 1900 and 1902, by J. B. Lippincott Company. Copyright, 1901 and 1902, by Charles Scribner's Sons. Copyright, 1902, by Henry T. Coates & Company. Copyright, 1902, by The Golden Rule Company. Copyright, 1902, by Daily Story Company. Copyright, 1902, by Cyrus Townsend Brady.

  COUPS DE THEATRE

  "The world's a theatre, the earth a stage, Which God and Nature do with actors fill."

  THOMAS HEYWOOD