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Of these, that to the south, and inside the bay, is motionless, and bears the name of the 'Dead-Boy; but the 'Quick-Boy, to the north, shifts continually. It is a quicksand, in short; and will swallow a man in three minutes. "My mind," resumed my companion, "was soon made up. There is no murder, thought I, where there is no corpse.
Presently the turf ceased. Dismounting, I ran to the edge and plunged down the rocky face. I had descended about twenty feet, when I came to the spot where, by craning forward, I could catch sight of the spit of rock, and the Quick-Boy Sand to the right of it. The sun a blazing ball of red was just now setting behind us, and its level rays fell full upon the man we were chasing.
For fully half a minute nothing happened; hunters and hunted eyed each other and waited. Then carrying the snuff to his nose, and doffing his hat, with a satirical sweep of the hand and a low bow, he turned again and tripped off the ledge into the jaws of the Quick-Boy. There was no help now. At his third step the sand had him by the ankles.
Then I turned to Lydia, whom I had set down for the moment. In the moonlight her lips were parted as though she were still chattering; so I kissed her once, because I had loved her, and dropped her body over into the Quick-Boy Sand. In three minutes or so I had seen the last of her.
For a moment he fought it, then, throwing up his arms, sank forward, slowly and as if bowing yet, upon his face. Second by second we stood and watched him disappear. Within five minutes the ripples of the Quick-Boy Sand met once more above him. In the course of the next afternoon the Vicar of Bleakirk called at the Hall with a paper which he had found pinned to the church door.
"I trundled home the barrow, mixed myself a glass of whisky, sat beside it for half an hour, and then aroused the servants. I was cunning, sir; and no one could trace my footprints on the turf and rock of Woeful Ness. The missing hand-bag, and the disarray I had been careful to make in the bed-room, provided them at once with a clue but it did not lead them to the Quick-Boy.
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