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I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable! I can bear! The torture no longer shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below. Do not think from my slavery to morphine that I am a weakling or degenerate. When you have read these hastily scrawled pages, you may guess, though, never fully realize why it is that I must have forgetfulness or death. It was in one of the most open and least frequented parts of the broad pacific that the packet of which I was super cargo fell a victim to the german sea raider. The Great War was then at its very beginning, and the ocean forces of the hun had not completely sunk to the later degradation, so that our vessel was made a legitimate prize, whilst we of a crew were treated with all the fairness and consideration due us as naval prisoners. So liberal, indeed, was the discipline of our captors, that five days after we were taken and managed to escape alone in a small boat with water and provisions for a good length of time