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? ? ? ? I started to rush below to the flag-locker, then remembered that in rigging the Ghost I had forgotten to make provisions for a flag-halyard.
? ? ? ? 'We need no distress signal,' Maud said. 'They have only to see us.'
? ? ? ? 'We are saved!' I said soberly and solemnly. And then, in an exuberance of joy, 'I hardly know whether to be glad or not.'
? ? ? ? I looked at her. Our eyes were not loath to meet. We leaned toward each other, and before I knew it, my arms were about her.
? ? ? ? 'Need I?' I asked.
? ? ? ? And she answered: 'There is no need; though the telling of it would be sweet, so sweet.'
? ? ? ? Her lips met the press of mine, and, by what strange trick of the imagination I know not, the scene in the cabin of the Ghost flashed upon me, when she had pressed her fingers lightly on my lips and said, 'Hush, hush.
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