Twixt Land and Sea Tales #268609

This volume of three tales was also well received, publicly and privately and from a publisher's point of view. This little success was a most timely tonic for my enfeebled bodily frame. For this may indeed be called the book of a man's convalescence, at least as to three-fourths of it; because The Secret Sharer, the middle story, was written much earlier than the other two.