Ema, the Half-Blood single work   short story  
Issue Details: First known date: 1898... 1898 Ema, the Half-Blood
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Twenty-year-old Ema and her brother, Jim, live with their trader father on Drummond's Island. Jim leaves the island to join the crew of an American ship, but runs away and returns home. Several years later an American naval party arrives to arrest him and Ema fights valiantly to save him.

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