26/32 He sat up, embracing his great knees and looking at the sea and the _Cordera_. "I have been thinking, Doctor." "For your health, my Admiral, I wish you could rest a while from thinking!" "We were upon the south side of Mangi. I am assured of that! Could I, this time, have sailed on--Now I see it!" He dropped his hands from his knees and turned full toward me. I saw that lying thus for an hour he had gathered strength and now was passed, as he was wont to pass after quiet, into a high degree of vision, accompanied by forth-going energy. "Now I see, and as soon as I may, I will do! Beyond Mangi, Champa. |