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But there was no wind on Squitty yet. There was breathless stillness except for the low, spaced mutter of the surf. He stood a long time, drinking in the beauty of it all, the sea and the moon-path, and the hushed, dark woods behind. Then his gaze, turning slowly, fell on something white in the shadow of a bushy, wind-distorted fir a few feet away. He looked more closely.

But when the wind blew stronger and the surf boomed louder and nearer, and the faint moon-path stretched farther and farther toward the smudgy sky-line, city-going street-cars began to fill with sunburned passengers, and motors began to purr out of the narrow side streets lined with shoddy buildings which housed the summer sojourners.

Then she gave a frightened cry, and put her hands up to her bosom; as she did so, a stream of something bright like gold pieces fell from her mouth, and two like streams from her opened hands. Then, as quick as light, she had darted past me, and dived into the moon-path beyond.

Ruth had not taken the Point Pleasant dances seriously, but as day on day she stifled in a half-darkened flat that summer, she sometimes sobbed at the thought of the moon-path on the sea, the reflection of lights on the ball-room floor, the wavelike swish of music-mad feet. The flat was hot, dead. The summer heat was unrelenting as bedclothes drawn over the head and lashed down.

She sat down in the moon-path on the water, courtesying with a flourish of pride impressive enough had not the wheel-gear sniggered mockingly in its box. Harvey laughed aloud. "Why, it's just as if she was alive," he said. "She's as stiddy as a haouse an' as dry as a herrin'," said Dan enthusiastically, as he was slung across the deck in a batter of spray.

The watery floor of Toba Inlet lay hushed between, silvered by a moon-path, shimmering under the same pale rays that struck bluish-white reflections from a glacier high on the northern side. It was ghostly still at the mouth of the valley whence the Toba River stole down to salt water, with somber forests lining the beach and clinging darkly on the steep slopes.

I am not given to quoting poetry, but involuntarily there came to my mind some lines remembered from boyhood: If on some balmy summer night You rowed across the moon-path white, And saw the shining sea grow fair With silver scales and golden hair What would you do? "What would you do?"

Without troubling to understand she was inclined to think it verbiage she made a small sound of assent. 'That is why you want to go again to a place, and I don't care so much, because I have it with me, he concluded. They decided to find their way through the lanes to Alum Bay, and then, keeping the cross in sight, to return over the downs, with the moon-path broad on the water before them.

The first notes brought a new light to her face, and she smiled into Dunham's upturned eyes. "This is mine," she said. The words of the song came clearly to them, as the moon-path broadened and lengthened between the spires of the firs. "Closely let me hold thy hand, Storms are sweeping sea and land, Love alone will stand.

The air, soft as the dead leaves of spring, fanned his cheek. By and by the moon, like a red fire at sea, lifted itself from the waves. Thorpe made his way to the stern, beyond the square deck house, where he intended to lean on the rail in silent contemplation of the moon-path. He found another before him. Phil, the little cripple, was peering into the wonderful east, its light in his eyes.