There is one voyage, the first, the last, theonly
one.
In the freight-yards, switch-lights were
paintedblack except for small cross-slits.
It alsotells you how you may distribute copies of
this eBook if you want to. The business man was equally unconcerned with ideals but
did not sharethe officers optimism. Once beyond the heart of the city, traffic
became even thinner. Upon his desk the strewn vitals of a watch winkedwith a
thousand tiny points of bluish light.
Yet all thatsplendor was lavished upon precisely
twenty-five passengers includingmyself. The neutral countries form a sort of
twilightzone, where life is better, yet far from normal. This huge floatingpalace,
the pride of Italys merchant marine, carried only a handfulof
passengers.
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medium they may be on may containDefects. At dinner that evening my friends and
their guests talked freely.
That So-and-Sowas a young British navy officer
standing very erect in the tendersstern. Leaning against the iron railing of the
porch, above the sidewalk,a man stood smoking. Even the ships company was little
inevidence.
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Eugene fumbled in his pockets for a cigarette, with
fingers thatwere stiff and trembling. Wont Italy gain commercially by staying
neutral? There was silence again, while Eugene sought timorously for
words.
Then she whisperedhuskily, faintly: We must try to
love one another.
Eugene chattered, pointing with atrembling finger.
It was, he thought, the strong good medicineof death. The twinkling lightsof
Gibraltar Town slipped quickly past and vanished behind EuropaPoint.
I entered wartime Europe by way of Italy, making
the trip from Americaon the Italian liner Rex.
Some ships with a full loading were held up for
days. The army officer was an optimist, due largely to his faith inMussolini.