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Dracula's Guest by Bram Stoker
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place in such a tempest!'

'Not a bit,' came the reply. 'You remember how Abel Behenna saved me
there on a night like this when my boat went on the Gull Rock. He
dragged me up from the deep water in the seal cave, and now someone may
drift in there again as I did,' and he was gone into the darkness. The
projecting rock hid the light on the Flagstaff Rock, but he knew his way
too well to miss it. His boldness and sureness of foot standing to him,
he shortly stood on the great round-topped rock cut away beneath by the
action of the waves over the entrance of the seal cave, where the water
was fathomless. There be stood in comparative safety, for the concave
shape of the rock beat back the waves with their own force, and though
the water below him seemed to boil like a seething cauldron, just beyond
the spot there was a space of almost calm. The rock, too, seemed here to
shut off the sound of the gale, and he listened as well as watched. As
he stood there ready, with his coil of rope poised to throw, he thought
he heard below him, just beyond the whirl of the water, a faint,
despairing cry. He echoed it with a shout that rang into the night Then
he waited for the flash of lightning, and as it passed flung his rope
out into the darkness where he had seen a face rising through the swirl
of the foam. The rope was caught, for he felt a pull on it, and he
shouted again in his mighty voice:

'Tie it round your waist, and I shall pull you up.' Then when he felt
that it was fast he moved along the rock to the far side of the sea
cave, where the deep water was something stiller, and where he could get
foothold secure enough to drag the rescued man on the overhanging rock.
He began to pull, and shortly he knew from the rope taken in that the
man he was now rescuing must soon be close to the top of the rock. He
steadied himself for a moment, and drew a long breath, that he might at
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