Chapter 34: XXXIV

XXXIV “It’s too bad the Ghost has lost her masts. Why we could sail away in her. Don’t you think we could, Humphrey?” I sprang excitedly to my feet. “I wonder, I wonder,” I repeated, pacing up and down. Maud’s eyes were shining with anticipation as they followed me. She had such faith in me! And the thought of it was so much added power. I remembered Michelet’s “To man, woman is as the earth was to her legendary son; he has but to fall down and kiss her breast and he is strong again.…