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My eyes followed him up the path with sad forebodings. All day long I loitered about the Gap. It consisted of two bays the one I had already seen, and another, divided from it by a saw-edge of rock. In the further cove crouched a few low stone cottages. A broad-bottomed sailing boat lay there, pulled up high on the beach. About three o'clock, as I sat and watched, two men began to launch it.
"Then as the poles are cut, the boys will soon put it up. In the meantime, supper's ready." He took her across the narrow open space, and when near the fire she stopped and looked about. It was after ten o'clock, but a pale-green glow shone above the pines, whose ragged tops cut against it in a black saw-edge.
Threads of glancing spray quivered in and out among the foliage, and high above, beyond a strip of sparkling sea and set apart by filmy cloud from all the earth below, stretched the giant saw-edge of the Coast Range's snow.
You gave me a scare, Jean." "I'm dreadfully sorry. Come here, and sit by me." She moved to allow him room, and he sat down by her, taking the wheel from her hand. On the horizon the high lands of northern Africa were showing their saw-edge outlines. "That is Morocco," he pointed out to her. "I propose giving Gibraltar a wide berth, and following the coast line to Tangier."
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