I guess they're waiting for me." "Good-bye! Oh, how I wish I were in your place! Just to put my foot on the blessed, green earth once more.

Good-bye! And--and good luck, again." "If you will take a pair of glasses and watch the top of that hill,--there is a bare knob up there, you see,--you will know long before we come back whether this island is inhabited or not.

I am taking an American flag with me.

If we do not see another flag floating anywhere on this island, I intend to plant the Stars and Stripes on that hill,--just for luck!" She walked a few steps at his side, their bodies aslant against the slope of the deck.
"And if you do not raise the flag, we shall know at once that--that there are other people here ?" she said, her voice eager with suppressed excitement.

"It will mean that ships--" Her voice failed her.
"It will mean home,--some day," he returned solemnly.
The one remaining port-side boat was lowered a few minutes later and to the accompaniment of cheers from the throng that lined the rails, the men pulled away, heading for a tiny cove on the far side of the basin.