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100 1 _aStacpoole, H. De Vere
_q(Henry De Vere),
_d1863-1951
245 1 4 _aThe romance of Captain Duffy
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aProduced from the May 7, 1929 issue of The Popular Magazine
500 _aRelease date is 2026-02-12
508 _aPrepared by volunteers at BookCove (bookcove.net)
520 _aThe 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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cNew York: Street & Smith Corporation, 1929
653 _aShort stories
653 _aIslands -- Fiction
653 _aSouth Pacific Ocean -- Fiction
653 _aCastaways -- Fiction
830 0 _aProduced from the May 7, 1929 issue of The Popular Magazine
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/the-popular-magazine-v-95-n-04-1929-04-07
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77920
999 _c118640
_d118640