The Stacpoole, H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) 1863-1951 creator text utu 2026 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats The romance of Captain Duffy by H. De Vere Stacpoole is a South Seas adventure short story written in the early 20th century. Framed as a sailor’s reminiscence, it turns on shipwreck, castaway survival, and a chivalrous, ultimately unfulfilled romance. An unnamed narrator in Malacca listens as Captain Duffy tells how a mutiny on a Canton pig boat left him adrift and marooned on the tiny island of Fovea. Living on fruit and crabs, he builds a hut and shell garden, then wakes to find that a distant nighttime “thunder” was a mail steamer’s explosion, whose lone survivor—a young woman in a ball dress—has washed ashore. Duffy steadies her through shock and amnesia, keeps a scrupulous distance, and covers her with his coat when a shabby trading schooner arrives to rescue them. In Canton, while her delayed family sends word and tailors refit her wardrobe, newspapers turn Duffy into a sensation; he resolves to speak his heart, but when her parents appear with a polished young suitor who greets her with a kiss, he quietly withdraws, ships out, and reflects ruefully that waiting for the “right moment” cost him the only one he had. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Release date is 2026-02-12 Prepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net) Originally published: New York: Street & Smith Corporation, 1929 Short stories Islands -- Fiction South Pacific Ocean -- Fiction Castaways -- Fiction PR New York: Street & Smith Corporation, 1929 https://archive.org/details/the-popular-magazine-v-95-n-04-1929-04-07 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77920 https://archive.org/details/the-popular-magazine-v-95-n-04-1929-04-07 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77920 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134815.0 77920