? ? ? ? 'It can be done- it can be done,' I was thinking and asserting aloud. 'What men have done I can do, and if they have never done this before, still I can do it.'
? ? ? ? 'What, for goodness' sake?' Maud demanded. 'Do be merciful. What is it you can do?'
? ? ? ? 'We can do it,' I amended. 'Why, nothing else than put the masts back into the Ghost and sail away.'
? ? ? ? 'Humphrey!' she exclaimed.
? ? ? ? And I felt as proud of my conception as if it were already a fact accomplished.
? ? ? ? 'But how is it possibly to be done?' she asked.
? ? ? ? 'I don't know,' was my answer. 'I know only that I am capable of doing anything these days.'
? ? ? ? I smiled proudly at her- too proudly, for she dropped her eyes and was for the moment silent.
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