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But even now it occasionally
relapses into its old humours--with this difference, that instead of
being decorated with a coveted distinction, the disabled man is sent to
the hospital and told not to make a fool of himself next time.
This was the gun whose sound attracted the strained attention of Mr.
Keith and his companions, far away, on the sea, under the cliffs.



CHAPTER XX


The firing had ceased; the boat began to glide forwards once more. But
Mr. Heard's eye remained fixed upon the ill-omened black rock. The
sun's rays had already licked dry the moisture on its surface; it shone
with a steady dull glow. Some malefic force seemed to dwell here. Some
demon haunted the place, peering out of the crevices or rising up from
the turquoise-tinted water at its foot. The suicides' rock!
That vague sense of apprehension, of impending disaster, once more
invaded him. Suddenly it revealed itself in definite terms. A ghastly
notion flitted through his mind.
"You think it possible that Denis--?" he began.


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