`` Yes , '' said Susan with a heavy sigh , `` but , Mrs. Doctor , dear , there is neither marrying nor giving in marriage there . '' CHAPTER 39 CAPTAIN JIM CROSSES THE BAR One day in late September Owen Ford 's book came at last . Captain Jim had gone faithfully to the Glen post office every day for a month , expecting it . This day he had not gone , and Leslie brought his copy home with hers and Anne 's . `` We 'll take it down to him this evening , '' said Anne , excited as a schoolgirl . The long walk to the Point on that clear , beguiling evening along the red harbor road was very pleasant . Then the sun dropped down behind the western hills into some valley that must have been full of lost sunsets , and at the same instant the big light flashed out on the white tower of the point . `` Captain Jim is never late by the fraction of a second , '' said Leslie . Neither Anne nor Leslie ever forgot Captain Jim 's face when they gave him the book -- HIS book , transfigured and glorified . The cheeks that had been blanched of late suddenly flamed with the color of boyhood ; his eyes glowed with all the fire of youth ; but his hands trembled as he opened it . It was called simply The Life-Book of Captain Jim , and on the title page the names of Owen Ford and James Boyd were printed as collaborators . The frontispiece was a photograph of Captain Jim himself , standing at the door of the lighthouse , looking across the gulf . Owen Ford had `` snapped '' him one day while the book was being written . Captain Jim had known this , but he had not known that the picture was to be in the book . `` Just think of it , '' he said , `` the old sailor right there in a real printed book . This is the proudest day of my life . I 'm like to bust , girls . There 'll be no sleep for me tonight . I 'll read my book clean through before sun-up . '' `` We 'll go right away and leave you free to begin it , '' said Anne .
Captain Jim had been handling the book in a kind XXXXX reverent rapture .
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