'The Golden Fleece' is a short story written by an English journalist and novelist named Albert Kinross. It is about a man named Capel, who came on board the "Golden Fleece" at Athens. It is an old and comfortable five-thousand-tonner, once a mail-boat, but now the property of a London syndicate, which fills it at advertised intervals with thoughtful tourists; sending them down the Mediterranean in winter, and across the North Sea, or up the Baltic, in summer. Capel had chosen this leisurely way
