At all events it was immensely clever of them to have put their finger upon the public pulse and to have realized that the public imagination is ready to believe anything because it has seen so much proved.

Still, "science was faith once"; and besides, to St.George, charts and compasses of all known and unknown systems of seamanship were suddenly become but the dead letter of the law.

The spirit of the whole matter was that Olivia might be there, under the lights that his own eyes would presently see again.

"Who, remembering the first kind glance of her whom he loves, can fail to believe in magic ?" It is very likely that having met Olivia at all seemed at that moment so wonderful to St.
George that any of the "frolic things" of science were to be accepted with equanimity.
For an hour or more the moon, flooding the edge of the deck of _The Aloha_, cast four shadows sharply upon the smooth boards.

Lined up at the rail stood the four adventurers, and the glass passed from one to another like the eye of the three Grey Sisters.