and which turns you skilfully back into the marsh by another way. No;
you might float around there for days but you'd never find the
castle.'

'I found it once.'

'That was because you came from the north shore. I did not guard that
side, because no one has ever come that way; you remember how quickly
I saw your light and rowed over to find out what it was. But you are
miles away from there now.'

The moon could not pierce the heavy clouds, and the night continued
dark. At last the dawn come slowly up the east and showed an angry
sea, and an old man grayly pallid on the sands near the dying fire; of
the vessel nothing was to be seen.

'The things will be coming ashore, the things will be coming.
ashore,' muttered the old man, his anxious eyes turned towards the
water that lay on a level with his face; he could not raise himself
now.

'Do you see things coming ashore?'

Waring looked searchingly at him. 'Tell me the truth,' he said, 'has
the girl no boat?'

'No.'

'Will any one go to rescue her; does any one know of the castle?'