Owen Ford accepted the offer of the life-book gladly . On their way home Anne told him the story of lost Margaret . `` That old captain is a wonderful old fellow , '' he said . `` What a life he has led ! Why , the man had more adventures in one week of his life than most of us have in a lifetime . Do you really think his tales are all true ? '' `` I certainly do . I am sure Captain Jim could not tell a lie ; and besides , all the people about here say that everything happened as he relates it . There used to be plenty of his old shipmates alive to corroborate him . He 's one of the last of the old type of P.E. Island sea-captains . They are almost extinct now . '' CHAPTER 25 THE WRITING OF THE BOOK Owen Ford came over to the little house the next morning in a state of great excitement . `` Mrs. Blythe , this is a wonderful book -- absolutely wonderful . If I could take it and use the material for a book I feel certain I could make the novel of the year out of it . Do you suppose Captain Jim would let me do it ? '' `` Let you ! I 'm sure he would be delighted , '' cried Anne . `` I admit that it was what was in my head when I took you down last night . Captain Jim has always been wishing he could get somebody to write his life-book properly for him . '' `` Will you go down to the Point with me this evening , Mrs. Blythe ?
I 'll ask him XXXXX that life-book myself , but I want you to tell him that you told me the story of lost Margaret and ask him if he will let me use it as a thread of romance with which to weave the stories of the life-book into a harmonious whole . ''
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