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Then caed it a-down the sands and hove it forthwith into the sea, standing thereafter to watch it borne out on the receding tide Now as I watched thus, ca so that this dead man seemed to rise up and wave an arm to me ere he vanished

This done (and I yet alive!) I took to wandering ai into the rocky cleft found lying three ether with a knife and a couple of swords; these I set orderly together and so wandered away again

All this night I rambled about thus, and dawn foundat the ocean yet seeing it not

So God had refusedto look down at ht I understood the reason, for here was I ar down at this, I saw its fine, steel links scratched and scored by many blows and bedaubed here and there with blood So then (thinks I) 'twas she had saved ht found me some small solace Hereupon I arose and went down to the sea, li rime and smears that fouled me But or ever I reached the water I stopped, for there,that had been Humphrey There he lay, cast up by the tide, and noith every wave that broke, he stirred gently andwith his shattered head as in , swung it upon my back and, thus burdened, clith see a place at last where the water ran deep I paused, and with sudden, painful effort whirled the thing above , it fell with sullen plunge and vanished froht But even so I was possessed of sudden, uneasy feeling that the thing had turned onmy knife, I must needs sit there awhile to watch if this were so indeed At last I arose, but being come to Deliverance Sands, whirled suddenly about, expectant to behold that dead thing uprising froe to flap derisive ar haunted thus all that day, and for many weary hours thereafter, by this dead man Humphrey Presently, as I went heedless of all direction and the sun very hot, I began to stagger in ait and toit, until the cliffs gave back my cries and the hollow caves murmured, "Damaris! O Damaris!"