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"I glanced atby thirty one an hour and a half The exciteer inside me And when another cypress appeared with its ancient chain and its jagged arrow I veered slightly to the left again, only to coht

"I was drifting along, in even deeper water, when, gazing upwards, I realized I was looking at a house

"At that ue struck a bank I was jolted nearly out of it I had to get s Wild blackberries swarmed over the front of the boat and reached out to scratch me, but with the kitchen knife I slashed at theloved hands

"It wasn't an impossible situation And in the meantime I could see that my first visual i house loo up in front of s, and it occurred to ht have come to someone else's home

"Well, I'd approach with respect, I figured, and, when I had cut through ue up onto the bank, I turned around to find uhosts of trees beneath the desperate vicious ariant cypress trees on both sides of me and further on

"I stopped, felt the dizziness again, and then I heard the huloves were dirty and I probably got h I had a linen handkerchief inwith lots of paper tissue, it was no time for that

"I walked on,upwards onto a e clearing surrounded by immense cypress -- in fact, it see and made an island out of it by their knees and their hateful sprawling roots

"And in the ht feet above ground atop its log foundations, a see arches and in a rising succession of s to this impression was a cupola on the very top

"A solid wooden stairs rose from the earth to the front doorway, and affixed above this front door was a rectangular sign with deeply etched and plainly readable letters:

PROPERTY OF

MANFRED BLACKWOOD

KEEP OUT

"If I'd ever felt as much triumph before, I didn't remember it This was my house, this was end to other people, and it was all mine I'd reclaimed Manfred's tale I'd seen what William never sahat Gravier never sahat Pops never saas here

"In a heated deliriu, al Rebecca's plea topain which I had just heard inside my head

"The droning of the bees, the rattle and flapping of the giant palravel under s sort of embraced me and upheld me and seeh I'd come into the paradise of another man's faith