McCutcheon, George Barr, 1866-1928 / 2008-06-29 00:00:00

EBOOK, WEST WIND DRIFT ***


Carrie Fellman

WEST WIND DRIFT
By George Barr McCutcheon



WEST WIND DRIFT


On a bright, still morning in October, the Doraine sailed from a
South American port and turned her glistening nose to the northeast.
All told, there were some seven hundred and fifty souls on board;
and there were stores that filled her holds from end to end,--grain,
foodstuffs, metals, chemicals, rubber and certain sinister things
of war. Her passenger list contained the names of men who had
achieved distinction in world affairs,--in finance, in business,
in diplomacy, in war, besides that less subtle pursuit, adventure:
men from both hemispheres, from all continents. It was a cosmopolitan
company that sailed out to sea that placid day, bound for a port
six thousand miles away.
Her departure, heavy-laden, from this South American port was
properly recorded in the then secret annals of a great nation; the
world at large, however, was none the wiser. For those were the
days when sly undersea monsters of German descent were prowling
about the oceans, taking toll of humanity and breeding the curse
that was to abide with their progenitors forever.
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