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Half-way across the sound of the surf on the barrier becaulls ca back, the shore seereat way off It was lonelier still on the reef

Dick tied up the boat to a projection of coral, and helped E down into the west, the tide was nearly half out, and large pools of water lay glittering like burnished shields in the sunlight Dick, with his precious spear beside hian to divest hiarment

Emmeline turned away her head and contemplated the distant shore, which seemed thrice as far off as it was in reality When she turned her head again he was racing along the edge of the surf He and his spear silhouetted against the spindrift and dazzling foa with the general desolation of the background She watched hi to a piece of coral, whilst the surf rushed round and over hi, and pursue his ga with the wet

So with the sound of the surf and the cry of the gulls, and she would see hie his spear into a pool, and the nextand glittering at the end of it

He was quite different out here on the reef to what he was ashore The surroundings here see way; and he would kill, and kill, just for the pleasure of killing, destroying more fish than they could possibly use