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The Welcome back, everyone to one thousand one classic short stories and tales.

This is your host, John Hagadorn.

Today, another great story from Robert Barr called Mrs. Tremaine.

Mrs. Tremaine is one of those ladies, and I think we've all known a Mrs. Tremaine,

who just has an incredible effect upon everyone around her.

Robert Barr did a lot of steamer stories and brought some of the greatest characters to the world of classic short stories of any author out there.

Mrs. Tremaine is one of them. And now our story. The trouble about this story is that it really has no ending.

Taking an ocean voyage is something like picking up an interesting novel and reading a chapter in the middle of it.

The passenger on a big steamer gets glimpses of other people's lives, but he doesn't know what the beginning was, nor what the ending will be.

The last time I saw Mrs. Tremaine, and she was looking over her shoulder and smiling at Glendeney

as she walked up the gangway plank at Liverpool, hanging affectionately on the arm of her husband.

I said to myself at the time,

You silly little handsome idiot!

Lord only knows what trouble you will cause before flirting has lost its charm for you.

Personally, I would like to have shoved Glendinning off the Kangway plank into the dark

mercy, but that would have been against the laws of the country on which we were then landing.

Mrs. Tremaine was a woman whom other women did not like, and whom men did.

Glendin was a man that the average man detested, "'but he was a great favorite with the ladies.

"'I shall never forget the sensation Mrs. Tremaine caused

"'when she first entered the saloon of our steamer.

"'I wish I were able to describe accurately just how she was dressed,

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