HER SAILOR

A Love Story

MARSHALL SAUNDERS

AUTHOR OF
“BEAUTIFUL JOE,” “ROSE À CHARLITTE,”
“DEFICIENT SAINTS,” ETC.

“Now if you love the southern sea

And pleasant summer weather;

Come, let us mount this gallant ship,

And sail away together.”

New York
International Association of Newspapers and Authors
1901

Copyright, 1899
By L. C. Page and Company
(INCORPORATED)
George M. Hill Company
Printers and Binders
Chicago, Ill.

I DEDICATE
THIS MY FIRST STORY
TO MY MOST INDULGENT CRITIC,
THE ONE WHO WILL HAVE MOST PATIENCE WITH ITS
IMPERFECTIONS,—MY BELOVED MOTHER,
Maria Kisborough Freeman Saunders
OF HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA.