Five Passengers from Lisbon

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P.S. Исправлено множество (несколько сотен) ошибок оцифровки, но какая-то часть их могла остаться незамеченной или нерасшифрованной.

Once in awhile a writer wishes to add a few words of facts to a story of fiction; such is the case in this story of fictional romance and fictional murder placed in a factual setting.

Not that the U. S. A. H. S. Magnolia is, or ever was, a real ship, for she is not. She is an imaginary composite of a number of ships which, however, are very real and very magnificent—staffed by men and women whose courage and devotion are equally real and magnificent. If this novel had a serious dedication it would be, humbly, to them! The nurses and doctors, the ship's officers and men, the Army Transportation Corps, whose combined and tireless effort brought thousands of our sick and wounded soldiers safely home. But no words can properly express the debt of gratitude we owe them.

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