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The girl, holding the baby to her breast, sat up gasping The baby had come to no harm; it had cried at first when the thunder broke, but now it seemed impassive, almost dazed Dick stepped froy in the air

The cyclone had gathered on its way sea-birds and birds froulls, electric white and black man-of-war birds, butterflies, and they all seelass As they went, travelling like things without volition and in a dream, with a hum and a roar the south-west quadrant of the cyclone burst on the island, and the whole bitter business began over again

It lasted for hours, then towardshe cay for the destruction caused by his children the winds He showed trees uprooted and birds lying dead, three or four canes reoon the colour of a pale sapphire, and a glass-green, foaainst the reef