FOR THE ADMIRAL

W.J. MARX

_Author of "Scouting for Buller," "The British Legion," etc._


HODDER AND STOUGHTON
PUBLISHERS LONDON

_Printed in 1906_

_Butler and Panner, The Selwood Printing Works, Frome, and London_



TO MY WIFE

BUT FOR WHOSE ENCOURAGEMENT

THIS STORY WOULD NEVER

HAVE BEEN WRITTEN.




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