Mae Madden

Mae Madden is the somber story of young Mae Madden and her family at sea during their travels to Europe. Excerpt: «It's something like dying, I do declare,» said Mae, and as she spoke a suspicious-looking drop slid softly across her cheek, down over the deck-railing, to join its original briny fellows in the deep below. «What is like dying?» asked Eric. «Why, leaving the only world you know. There, you see, papa and mamma are fast fading away, and here we are traveling off at the rate of ever so many miles an hour.» «Knots, Mae; do be nautical at sea.» «Away from everything and everybody we know. I do think it is like dying,—don't you, Mr. Mann?» Mae turned abruptly and faced the young man by her side."