title: The Sailor: A Novel of History and Adventure
author: Jack Lurlyn Walters
description: He was born in Benton, Kansas, and grew up as a small-town boy in Yates Center, Kansas. To start his dream of adventure, he entered into the United States Navy at seventeen years of age and served one year in the Pacific at the end of World War II. He was stationed aboard LST 247 and, at the age of eighteen, received a honorable discharge. His father, who was a telegraph operator, taught him telegraphy as a teenager. After leaving the navy, he went to business college in Kansas City, Missouri, and after graduating became a railroad telegraph operator with the Missouri Pacific R. R. Co. until technology phased out the operators. He worked for Boeing Aircraft Company for several years and later went to Los Alamos, New Mexico, as security for the Atomic Energy Commission. He finished the last twenty-five years of his working career with the United States Customs Service in San Ysidro, California. He has been married over fifty years to his devoted wife, Shirley; and they raised four children, three daughters, and a son. He was an avid skier and still is active on the tennis courts, challenging his tennis buddies. He loves to travel and read and still dreams of adventures. He is active in the church and provides leadership for the senior members of the congregation. He adores his eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren and spends as much time with them as possible.
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  # The Sailor and the Southern Belle
  
  
  ### Sailors and Saints Series
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Annie Boone
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ### Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Copyright](part0002.html#1T140-69c0d655725243ca9954b4540994bcc5)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [If you enjoy sweet inspiring historical love
  stories](part0003.html#2RHM0-69c0d655725243ca9954b4540994bcc5)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Annie Boone
  
  
  [The Sailor and the Southern
  Belle](part0004.html#3Q280-69c0d655725243ca9954b4540994bcc5)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 1](part0005.html#4OIQ0-69c0d655725243ca9954b4540994bcc5)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 2](part0006.html#5N3C0-69c0d655725243ca9954b4540994bcc5)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 3](part0007.html#6LJU0-69c0d655725243ca9954b4540994bcc5)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 4](part0008.html#7K4G0-69c0d655725243ca9954b4540994bcc5)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 5](part0009.html#8IL20-69c0d655725243ca9954b4540994bcc5)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Chapter 6](part0010.h