'I've seen the Royal William coming around East Point.

She will be here by dawn.

Tomorrow night I shall sit with my bride by my own hearth-fire.' "Do you think he did see it ?" demanded Captain Jim abruptly.
"God knows," said Gilbert softly.

"Great love and great pain might compass we know not what marvels." "I am sure he did see it," said Anne earnestly.
"Fol-de-rol," said Doctor Dave, but he spoke with less conviction than usual.
"Because, you know," said Captain Jim solemnly, "the Royal William came into Four Winds Harbor at daylight the next morning.
"Every soul in the Glen and along the shore was at the old wharf to meet her.

The schoolmaster had been watching there all night.