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Those happy tales of mystery are as much my envy as the popular narratives of the deeds of bread and cheese people, for they both create a tide-way in the attentive mind; the mysterious pricking our credulous flesh to creep, the familiar urging our obese imagination to constitutional exercise.
Not without reason, for, though she could not see him from the land, she knew he could see her plainly through his telescope, if he chose. She reached the shore. The time had come for him to go, but there was his ship at anchor in the tide-way still. Perhaps the Narcissus was not going; perhaps, after all, Philip was to remain! She laughed with pleasure at the thought of that.
There was reassurance, comfort, loving care in his very tones. How brightly the stars shone, how clearly the music of the stream came over the hedge! With what lazy restfulness the distant All's well floated across the mielles from a ship at anchor in the tide-way, how like a slumber-song the wash of the sea rolled drowsily along the wind!
An uncertain path of light lay across the face of the far-off tide-way broken by a narrow strip of darkness and renewed again close at hand across the wide river almost to the sea-wall beneath the window. From this window no house could be seen by day nothing but a vast expanse of water and land hardly less level and unbroken.
"Well done, Soldier!" he laughed, and was back over the wall in a trice, attempting to stop the rout. He might as well have attempted to stay the tide. A torrent of men tumbled past him in howling tumult. He stood like a lighthouse in the tide-way. "What! one man lick the lot o you!" came the whipping voice. "O, good God!" with a passion of scorn "you sweeps! you swine!"
The noise of the streets, at first paralysing, died down to a familiar rumble, and the ear began to distinguish voices in the tide. Sounds of crying, calls for help, hailings, laughter, tears, separated themselves and appealed. You heard them, like the cries of the drowning, drifting by you upon a dark tide-way. You could do nothing; a word would have broken the spell.
Mine was but an idle quest, Roses white and red are best! Blue Roses THE SEA had not changed. Its waters were low on the mud-banks, and the Marazion Bell-buoy clanked and swung in the tide-way. On the white beach-sand dried stumps of sea-poppy shivered and chattered. 'I don't see the old breakwater, said Maisie, under her breath. 'Let's be thankful that we have as much as we have.
When the body of Philip was carried from the Cohue Royale signals were made to the Imperturbable in the tide-way. From all her ships in company forty guns were fired funeral-wise and the flags were struck halfmast. Slowly the cortege uncoiled itself to one long unbroken line from the steps of the Cohue Royale to the porch of the church.
Hist! Neil! The figure turned round. 'Who is that? asked a voice in Gaelic. 'It's Marjorie, Neil; and Allan. Neil carefully secured the boat and came forward. 'What are you doing here, Miss Marjorie, at this time of night? and Allan too? Has anything happened? 'We're shipwrecked, Neil; or rather we've been cut off by the tide-way, said Marjorie.
Guida had worked all forenoon with a feverish unrest, not trusting herself, though the temptation was sore, to go where she might see Philip's vessel lying in the tide-way.
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