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The Broken Shaft: Tales in Mid-Ocean 

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travelers on a transatlantic crossing. When their ship, the 

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Cover picture by Thomas Moran (circa 1906). Copyright expired in U.S. Cover design by 

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David Purdy. This design is in the public domain.