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Our steadfast captain, as long as he could see nothing, refused to go on, knowing well the risk, though he sent the ship's boats out at times to try to get his bearings. In all that time, the fog never once lifted so that he could get the horizon-line. At the end of the fifth day, he entered in triumph, with a clear view of the river, the grandest sight I have ever seen.
Here and there faint trails of mist floated and hovered over the waves, but the breeze was fast tearing and blowing them away. With a feeling of delight, he saw on the far horizon-line the white film of shadowy sails. It showed that there was life and stir somewhere, he thought, and it was pleasant to think of them as bound for far-off Hastings.
The whole llano, or plain, stretching to the horizon-line, was DISTINCTLY UNDULATING! The faint haze of the hills was repeated over its surface, as if a dust had arisen from some grinding displacement of the soil. I threw myself from my horse, but the next moment was fain to cling to him, as I felt the thrill under my very feet. Then there was a pause, and I lifted my head to look for Enriquez.
The closed vista of memory opened to its far horizon-line, and past and present were pictured in a single instant of clear vision. The dread moment which had blighted his life returned in all its terror. He felt the convulsive spring in the form of a faint, impotent spasm, the rush of air, the thorns of the stinging and lacerating cradle into which he was precipitated.
Jagged rocks, broken into all sorts of shapes, as if giant animals had trampled them under foot when the earth was still in a condition of mud, on the day when it emerged from chaos, broke the stretches here and there, and relieved from time to time by their abrupt breaks the flat horizon-line which merged into that of the sky in a zone of reddish mist.
This sea of Sicily seemed different to him to-day from other seas, more mysterious and more fascinating, a sea of sirens about a Sirens' Isle. Mechanically he swam through it, scarcely moving his arms, with his chin low in the water out towards the horizon-line. He was swimming towards Africa.
It erodes easily under running water, but it does not slide; sand and clay are in such proportions as to make a brittle but not a friable soil. Before you are out of Colorado, you begin to see these novel architectural features on the horizon-line the canon turned bottom side up, as it were. In New Mexico, the canon habit of the erosion forces is still more pronounced.
Madeline swept her gaze along the gray, sloping horizon-line to where dark-blue spires rose far beyond the ridge. "Peloncillo Mountains," said Stillwell. "Thet's home, when we get there. We won't see no more of them till afternoon, when they rise up sudden-like." Peloncillo! Madeline murmured the melodious name. Where had she heard it? Then she remembered.
"No, it is not a thing one could announce exactly," said Carlton; "it is rather in an embryo state as yet in fact, I have not met the young lady so far, but I mean to meet her. That's why I am going abroad." Miss Morris looked at him sharply to see if he were smiling, but he was, on the contrary, gazing sentimentally at the horizon-line, and puffing meditatively on his pipe.
"I mean that you are forever thinking you are on the brink of nothingness, when the true horizon-line is too far for you ever to reach in your mortal life." "Not in this case," said Robert. "You know nothing about it.
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