Frances Waldeaux — Rebecca Harding Davis

Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.In another minute the Kaiser Wilhelm would push off from her pier in Hoboken. The last bell had rung, the last uniformed officer and white-jacketed steward had scurried up the gangway. The pier was massed with people who had come to bid their friends good-by. They were all Germans, and there had been unlimited embracing and kissing and sobs of Ach! mein lieber Sckatz! and Gott bewahre Dick!