Excerpt from The Cruise of the Hippocampus

When an ex-navy friend wrote me th'at he was contemplating a cruise to San Francisco and was looking for a fourth man to make up a crew, I wrote twice, telegraphed once, and put in a long distance call to say that he could count me in. And I remember telling him and reiterating in each communication that I was all the more keen about the cruise because it originated with him and his two friends and so would not be subject to the usual withdrawals of crew members. Those were idle words.

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