10-Story Book, February 1928 — page 20: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

# Page Analysis This is a **text-only story page** (page 18) from a pulp magazine titled "The South Sea Island Number." The visible prose continues a narrative about a seafaring character recounting his life story to an audience. The speaker describes his maritime origins, his marriage to Maggie Clancy, and his subsequent financial success in railroads and banking, crediting his initial wealth to profits from early ship voyages. The page concludes with dialogue between the narrator (addressed as "Commodore") and a ship's Chaplain debating morality and salvation, with the Chaplain offering to save souls of the Commodore's dinner guests. The text is clearly mid-narrative, continuing from page 16.