“Then she'll round the Hook about eleven.”.
“Is the lighthouse very high?” asked Regie, his face aglow with excitement.
“High enough to see a long way out to sea,” answered the captain.
“I was not thinking of that,” said Regie, rather ruefully. “I was thinking I could not climb up so very many stairs with these crutches.”
“But you can go up mighty easy without them. See! just like this,” and Captain Murray caught Regie in his arms as easily as Regie himself would have lifted a kitten. “Bring the crutches, Nan,” he added, “there's no use in staying here any longer.”
