The twenty-second volume of the Complete Works of the outstanding American writer Jack London (1876–1916) includes two brilliant collections of short stories: “The Dutch Courage” and “The Son of the Sun.”
“But Margaret was unyielding. The Wests never left their ships,” she said. “They always brought them into port, to their destination—or they went down with them. ‘Elsinore,’ leaving Baltimore for Seattle, was commanded by West, and now, leaving Valparaiso with a new crew and officers, it must come to Seattle with one of the Wests on board…”