The Gilded Helm
The Albatross was the ugliest boat Julian Ashworth had ever owned, and that was precisely why he bought it. It was a private steam yacht, thirty meters long, painted gold - actually painted gold, with real gold leaf applied to the hull by craftsmen who had been paid five hundred pounds and told not to ask questions. Julian had commissioned it in the spring of 1894 from a shipbuilder in Deptford...
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