Produced by Darleen Dove and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net WOVEN WITH THE SHIP _By the Same Author_ WHEN BLADES ARE OUT AND LOVE'S AFIELD Buff buckram, eight illustrations by E. Plaisted Abbott, with colored border decorations and head-pieces by Edward Stratton Holloway, $1.50 Mr. Brady's novel is full of fighting, gallant deeds and the surprises and alluring uncertainties of love-making. It has the vivid setting of Virginia and Carolina in 1781 "As a romance it is delightful."--_Boston Transcript_ "A perfect gem of a volume. One of the daintiest that ever came to the _World's_ table."--_New York World_ [Illustration: "Oh, Captain Barry, you must do something!" See page 35] WOVEN WITH THE SHIP A NOVEL OF 1865 TOGETHER WITH CERTAIN OTHER VERACIOUS TALES OF VARIOUS SORTS BY CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY, LL.D. Author of "When Blades are Out and Love's Afield," "For the Freedom of the Sea," "Hohenzollern," "The Quiberon Touch," "Border Fights and Fighters," etc. WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS BY HOWARD CHANDLER CHRISTY, FRANK X. LEYENDECKER, W. GLACKENS, WILL CRAWFORD, AND H. L. V. PARKHURST PHILADELPHIA & LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1902 Copyright, 1902, by THE CROWELL & KIRKPATRICK COMPANY Copyright, 1902, by THE CROWELL PUBLISHING COMPANY Copyright, 1902, by J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY _Published October, 1902_ _Electrotyped and Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U.S.A._ Lovingly Dedicated to Margaret and Katharine Whose chief pleasure during one seashore summer lay in listening to their father while this romance was "WOVEN WITH THE SHIP" PREFACE Prefaces remind me of a certain text of Scripture,--_i.e._, "the last shall be first,"--for they are things written after which go before! Whether or not they serve a useful purpose is hard to say. I have several thousands of them in my library, most of which I have read, and perhaps the fact that I am a reader of prefaces may mark me as unique. And the mark may be accentuated to the gentle reader--if this preface should have any--when I say that I am also one of the few remaining authors who write them. Only one of my books is without a preface,--though some of them are disguised as notes, or forewords, or afterwords,--and I hereby apologize for the acephalous condition of that volume. I am determined that this book shall be amply provided, and though I write the preface while I am sending back the proof galleys, yet I will begin at the beginning. Beginnings are sometimes interesting, although the interest of a beginning largely depends on the ending thereof. I shall hope that this book in the end may commend itself sufficiently to my indulgent readers to make the story of the beginning worth while.