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"How does the fire show?" persisted the man of science, with keen and attentive interest. "And who has seen it?" "Stranger," said Hite, lowering his voice, "I hev viewed it, myself. But fust it war viewed by the Hanways, them ez lives in that house on the spur what prongs out o' the range nigh opposite the slope o' the Witch-Face.
Pierre du Bois and Torteval, with the gleaming light-houses out on the Hanways, and by Rocquaine Bay, and Vazon Bay, and through the vale to Captain Carey's peaceful house, where, perhaps, to-morrow night nay, this day's night Julia might be weeping and wailing broken-hearted.
But when the fog cleared horror of horrors! Clubin found himself not on the Hanways, but on the Douvres; not one mile from shore, but five miles! Clubin saw a ship in the distance. He determined to swim to a rock from which he could be seen, and make signals of distress. He undressed, leaving his clothing on deck.
If Gilliatt had known how she came to be there, he might have been more awed by the tremendous spectacle. The cause was an accident, and yet a purposed act. Clubin, the captain, as smug a hypocrite as ever scuttled a ship, had intended to run the Durande on the Hanways. His belt contained three thousand pounds.
"Ye see that cabin on the spur over yander around the bend?" It looked very small and solitary from this height, and the rail fences about its scanty inclosures hardly reached the dignity of suggesting jackstraws. "Waal, the Hanways over thar hev a full view of the old witch enny time she will show up at all. Folks in the mountings 'low the day be onlucky when she appears on the slope thar.
He meant to lose the ship on the Hanways, a mile from shore, and when the passengers had rowed away, pretending that he would go down with the ship, Clubin purposed to swim to land, get on board a pirate ship, and be off to the East. His little drama had been acted out; the boats had rowed away, everybody praising Captain Clubin, who would not abandon his ship.
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