upon the ship which, like a haunted castle near th i is shunned ips. Itis not the captain's cabin, for that is temporarily in the posses- tie sion of a family who cornered pigs euccessfully in Chicago. It is not the port hospital, It is a threshold which no one crosses, because on the portal is inscribed the fatal legend 'Ladies' Cabin.' Men may not enter there, therefore women will not." And another. Nothing will excite in the traveller who is making his firat long voyage such astonishment at that caused by
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