A Psychological Shipwreck

William Jarrett, the story's narrator, boards the Morrow, a sailing ship, in Liverpool.

Her finger has fallen on a passage from Denneker's Meditations concerning souls meeting and knowing one another beyond the body.

He learns that Janette is Gordon's fiancée, who was sent on the Morrow so that Doyle could settle matters in New York before her arrival.

It is quoted in the prologue to American science fiction writer Gene Wolfe's 1975 novella "Silhouette.

"[2] The theme of apportation, in which human consciousness can move between physical locations, is integral to both works.

"A Psychological Shipwreck" as published in Can Such Things Be? in 1893