it--alone, upon a derelict ship, abandoned to the sea.
She went out with the tide, out with the storms; out, out, out to the
great gray Pacific that knew her and loved her, and that shouted and
called for her, and thundered in the joy of her as she came to meet him
like a bride to meet a bridegroom.

"Good-by, Moran!" shouted Wilbur as she passed. "Good-by, good-by,
Moran! You were not for me--not for me! The ocean is calling for
you, dear; don't you hear him? Don't you hear him? Good-by, good-by,
good-by!"

The schooner swept by, shot like an arrow through the swirling currents
of the Golden Gate, and dipped and bowed and courtesied to the Pacific
that reached toward her his myriad curling fingers. They infolded her,
held her close, and drew her swiftly, swiftly out to the great heaving
bosom, tumultuous and beating in its mighty joy, its savage exultation
of possession.

Wilbur stood watching. The little schooner lessened in the
distance--became a shadow in mist and flying spray--a shadow moving
upon the face of the great waste of water. Fainter and fainter she grew,
vanished, reappeared, was heaved up again--a mere speck upon the western
sky--a speck that dwindled and dwindled, then slowly melted away into
the gray of the horizon.

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