[ Hutcheson / The Ghost Ship ]
In Chapter 20, the narrator asks another character about a young woman he had seen:
"Is the young lady slight in figure, and has she long golden-coloured hair hanging loose about her head, sir?" I eagerly asked, almost breathless in my excitement. "And, tell me too, did she have a large black Newfoundland or retriever dog by her side that same evening, sir?"
The dog, we are told two paragraphs later, is actually a Russian wolfhound; there is no other mention of Newfoundland dogs in this novel.