Note: This is the first-published version of "The Wreck of the Titan". The 1898 publication may be the only one. It ends thus (p145 viewed at HathiTrust): (quote) Two years from the time of his [civil service] examination he was appointed a lucrative position under the Government, and as he seated himself at the desk in his office, could have been heard to remark: "Now John Rowland, yhour future is your own. You have merely suffered in the past from a mistaken estimate of the importance of women and whisky." THE END. The novel article at Wikipedia states both: • "After the sinking of Titanic the novel was reissued with some changes, particularly in the ship's gross tonnage." • "A later edition includes a coda. Rowland receives a letter from the mother, who congratulates him ...".