Mick, this gets curiouser and curiouser.

My 1964 rpt. more or less includes the sentences you give as directly following the name of McGinnis.

But mine reads,

"Some of these good friends have since gone to Fiddler's Green. To their names should be added Mr. Sam Peck, Captain Victor Slocum, and Mr. R. M. Davids, all former seafarers who have 'swallowed the anchor.'"

New editions sometimes delete material, but for a mere "reprint" to silently remove an *acknowledgment* in two places - one of them within the body of the text is a new one on me!

Possibility: Maitland's name was added in a later *printing" (which would have the same 1938 copyright date), while an earlier printing was the basis of the 1964 Oak publication.