`` Lad , your grandfather was my dearest friend . I thought there was nobody like him . I see now why I had to wait so long . It could n't be writ till the right man come . You BELONG here -- you 've got the soul of this old north shore in you -- you 're the only one who COULD write it . '' It was arranged that the tiny room off the living room at the lighthouse should be given over to Owen for a workshop . It was necessary that Captain Jim should be near him as he wrote , for consultation upon many matters of sea-faring and gulf lore of which Owen was quite ignorant . He began work on the book the very next morning , and flung himself into it heart and soul . As for Captain Jim , he was a happy man that summer . He looked upon the little room where Owen worked as a sacred shrine . Owen talked everything over with Captain Jim , but he would not let him see the manuscript . `` You must wait until it is published , '' he said . `` Then you 'll get it all at once in its best shape . '' He delved into the treasures of the life-book and used them freely . He dreamed and brooded over lost Margaret until she became a vivid reality to him and lived in his pages . As the book progressed it took possession of him and he worked at it with feverish eagerness . He let Anne and Leslie read the manuscript and criticise it ; and the concluding chapter of the book , which the critics , later on , were pleased to call idyllic , was modelled upon a suggestion of Leslie 's . Anne fairly hugged herself with delight over the success of her idea . `` I knew when I looked at Owen Ford that he was the very man for it , '' she told Gilbert . `` Both humor and passion were in his face , and that , together with the art of expression , was just what was necessary for the writing of such a book .
XXXXX Mrs. Rachel would say , he was predestined for the part . ''
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