You would n't have thought mild little Gus could be so bloodthirsty , would you ? Shows what party politics will do for a man . Marshall kept quiet and got his hair and beard disposed of and went home . When his old housekeeper heard him come upstairs she peeked out of her bedroom door to see whether 't was him or the hired boy . And when she saw a strange man striding down the hall with a candle in his hand she screamed blue murder and fainted dead away . They had to send for the doctor before they could bring her to , and it was several days before she could look at Marshall without shaking all over . '' Captain Jim had no fish . He seldom went out in his boat that summer , and his long tramping expeditions were over . He spent a great deal of his time sitting by his seaward window , looking out over the gulf , with his swiftly-whitening head leaning on his hand . He sat there tonight for many silent minutes , keeping some tryst with the past which Anne would not disturb . Presently he pointed to the iris of the West : `` That 's beautiful , is n't , it , Mistress Blythe ? But I wish you could have seen the sunrise this morning . It was a wonderful thing -- wonderful . I 've seen all kinds of sunrises come over that gulf . I 've been all over the world , Mistress Blythe , and take it all in all , I 've never seen a finer sight than a summer sunrise over the gulf . A man ca n't pick his time for dying , Mistress Blythe -- jest got to go when the Great Captain gives His sailing orders . But if I could I 'd go out when the morning comes across that water . I 've watched it many a time and thought what a thing it would be to pass out through that great white glory to whatever was waiting beyant , on a sea that ai n't mapped out on any airthly chart . I think , Mistress Blythe , that I 'd find lost Margaret there . '' Captain Jim had often talked to Anne of lost Margaret since he had told her the old story .
His love for her trembled in every tone -- XXXXX love that had never grown faint or forgetful .
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