DRACULA
PART 6
CHAPTER
VI
MINA MURRAY’S JOURNAL
24
July. Whitby.—Lucy met me at the
station, looking sweeter and lovelier than ever, and we drove up to the house
at the Crescent in which they have rooms. This is a lovely place. The little
river, the Esk, runs through a deep valley, which broadens out as it comes near
the harbour. A great viaduct runs across, with high piers, through which the
view seems somehow further away than it really is. The valley is beautifully
green, and it is so steep that when you are on the high land on either side you
look right across it, unless you are near enough to see down. The houses of the
old town—the side away from us—are all red-roofed, and seem piled up one over
the other anyhow, like the pictures we see of Nuremberg. Right over the town is
the ruin of Whitby Abbey, which was sacked by the Danes, and which is the scene
of part of “Marmion,” where the girl was built up in the wall. It is a most
noble ruin, of immense size, and full of beautiful and romantic bits; there is
a legend that a white lady is seen in one of the windows. Between it and the
town there is another church, the parish one, round which is a big graveyard,
all full of tombstones. This is to my mind the nicest spot in Whitby, for it
lies right over the town, and has a full view of the harbour and all up the bay
to where the headland called Kettleness stretches out into the sea. It descends
so steeply over the harbour that part of the bank has fallen away, and some of
the graves have been destroyed. In one place part of the stonework of the
graves stretches out over the sandy pathway far below. There are walks, with
seats beside them, through the churchyard; and people go and sit there all day
long looking at the beautiful view and enjoying the breeze. I shall come and sit
here very often myself and work. Indeed, I am writing now, with my book on my
knee, and listening to the talk of three old men who are sitting beside me.
They seem to do nothing all day but sit up here and talk.
The
harbour lies below me, with, on the far side, one long granite wall stretching
out into the sea, with a curve outwards at the end of it, in the middle of
which is a lighthouse. A heavy sea-wall runs along outside of it. On the near
side, the sea-wall makes an elbow crooked inversely, and
its end too has a lighthouse. Between the two piers there is a narrow opening
into the harbour, which then suddenly widens.
It is nice
at high water; but when the tide is out it shoals away to nothing, and there is
merely the stream of the Esk, running between banks of sand, with rocks here
and there. Outside the harbour on this side there rises for about half a mile a
great reef, the sharp edge of which runs straight out from behind the south
lighthouse. At the end of it is a buoy with a bell, which swings in bad
weather, and sends in a mournful sound on the wind. They have a legend here
that when a ship is lost bells are heard out at sea. I must ask the old man
about this; he is coming this way....
He is a
funny old man. He must be awfully old, for his face is all gnarled and twisted
like the bark of a tree. He tells me that he is nearly a hundred, and that he
was a sailor in the Greenland fishing fleet when Waterloo was fought. He is, I
am afraid, a very sceptical person, for when I asked him about the bells at sea
and the White Lady at the abbey he said very brusquely:—
“I
wouldn’t fash masel’ about them, miss. Them things be all wore out. Mind, I
don’t say that they never was, but I do say that they wasn’t in my time. They
be all very well for comers and trippers, an’ the like, but not for a nice
young lady like you. Them feet-folks from York and Leeds that be always eatin’
cured herrin’s an’ drinkin’ tea an’ lookin’ out to buy cheap jet would creed
aught. I wonder masel’ who’d be bothered tellin’ lies to them—even the
newspapers, which is full of fool-talk.” I thought he would be a good person to
learn interesting things from, so I asked him if he would mind telling me
something about the whale-fishing in the old days. He was just settling himself
to begin when the clock struck six, whereupon he laboured to get up, and said:—
“I must
gang ageeanwards home now, miss. My grand-daughter doesn’t like to be kept
waitin’ when the tea is ready, for it takes me time to crammle aboon the grees,
for there be a many of ’em; an’, miss, I lack belly-timber sairly by the
clock.”
He hobbled
away, and I could see him hurrying, as well as he could, down the steps. The
steps are a great feature on the place. They lead from the town up to the
church, there are hundreds of them—I do not know how many—and they wind up in a
delicate curve; the slope is so gentle that a horse could easily walk up and
down them. I think they must originally have had something to do with the
abbey. I shall go home too. Lucy went out visiting with her
mother, and as they were only duty calls, I did not go. They will be home by
this.
1
August.—I came up here an hour ago
with Lucy, and we had a most interesting talk with my old friend and the two
others who always come and join him. He is evidently the Sir Oracle of them,
and I should think must have been in his time a most dictatorial person. He
will not admit anything, and downfaces everybody. If he can’t out-argue them he
bullies them, and then takes their silence for agreement with his views. Lucy
was looking sweetly pretty in her white lawn frock; she has got a beautiful
colour since she has been here. I noticed that the old men did not lose any
time in coming up and sitting near her when we sat down. She is so sweet with
old people; I think they all fell in love with her on the spot. Even my old man
succumbed and did not contradict her, but gave me double share instead. I got
him on the subject of the legends, and he went off at once into a sort of
sermon. I must try to remember it and put it down:—
“It be all
fool-talk, lock, stock, and barrel; that’s what it be, an’ nowt else. These
bans an’ wafts an’ boh-ghosts an’ barguests an’ bogles an’ all anent them is
only fit to set bairns an’ dizzy women a-belderin’. They be nowt but air-blebs.
They, an’ all grims an’ signs an’ warnin’s, be all invented by parsons an’
illsome beuk-bodies an’ railway touters to skeer an’ scunner hafflin’s, an’ to
get folks to do somethin’ that they don’t other incline to. It makes me ireful
to think o’ them. Why, it’s them that, not content with printin’ lies on paper
an’ preachin’ them out of pulpits, does want to be cuttin’ them on the
tombstones. Look here all around you in what airt ye will; all them steans,
holdin’ up their heads as well as they can out of their pride, is acant—simply
tumblin’ down with the weight o’ the lies wrote on them, ‘Here lies the body’
or ‘Sacred to the memory’ wrote on all of them, an’ yet in nigh half of them
there bean’t no bodies at all; an’ the memories of them bean’t cared a pinch of
snuff about, much less sacred. Lies all of them, nothin’ but lies of one kind
or another! My gog, but it’ll be a quare scowderment at the Day of Judgment
when they come tumblin’ up in their death-sarks, all jouped together an’ tryin’
to drag their tombsteans with them to prove how good they was; some of them
trimmlin’ and ditherin’, with their hands that dozzened an’ slippy from lyin’
in the sea that they can’t even keep their grup o’ them.”
I could
see from the old fellow’s self-satisfied air and the way in which he looked
round for the approval of his cronies that he was
“showing off,” so I put in a word to keep him going:—
“Oh, Mr.
Swales, you can’t be serious. Surely these tombstones are not all wrong?”
“Yabblins!
There may be a poorish few not wrong, savin’ where they make out the people too
good; for there be folk that do think a balm-bowl be like the sea, if only it
be their own. The whole thing be only lies. Now look you here; you come here a
stranger, an’ you see this kirk-garth.” I nodded, for I thought it better to
assent, though I did not quite understand his dialect. I knew it had something
to do with the church. He went on: “And you consate that all these steans be
aboon folk that be happed here, snod an’ snog?” I assented again. “Then that be
just where the lie comes in. Why, there be scores of these lay-beds that be
toom as old Dun’s ’bacca-box on Friday night.” He nudged one of his companions,
and they all laughed. “And my gog! how could they be otherwise? Look at that
one, the aftest abaft the bier-bank: read it!” I went over and read:—
“Edward
Spencelagh, master mariner, murdered by pirates off the coast of Andres, April,
1854, æt. 30.” When I came back Mr. Swales went on:—
“Who
brought him home, I wonder, to hap him here? Murdered off the coast of Andres!
an’ you consated his body lay under! Why, I could name ye a dozen whose bones
lie in the Greenland seas above”—he pointed northwards—“or where the currents
may have drifted them. There be the steans around ye. Ye can, with your young
eyes, read the small-print of the lies from here. This Braithwaite Lowrey—I
knew his father, lost in the Lively off Greenland in ’20; or Andrew
Woodhouse, drowned in the same seas in 1777; or John Paxton, drowned off Cape
Farewell a year later; or old John Rawlings, whose grandfather sailed with me,
drowned in the Gulf of Finland in ’50. Do ye think that all these men will have
to make a rush to Whitby when the trumpet sounds? I have me antherums aboot it!
I tell ye that when they got here they’d be jommlin’ an’ jostlin’ one another
that way that it ’ud be like a fight up on the ice in the old days, when we’d
be at one another from daylight to dark, an’ tryin’ to tie up our cuts by the
light of the aurora borealis.” This was evidently local pleasantry, for the old
man cackled over it, and his cronies joined in with gusto.
“But,” I
said, “surely you are not quite correct, for you start on the assumption that
all the poor people, or their spirits, will have to take
their tombstones with them on the Day of Judgment. Do you think that will be
really necessary?”
“Well,
what else be they tombstones for? Answer me that, miss!”
“To please
their relatives, I suppose.”
“To please
their relatives, you suppose!” This he said with intense scorn. “How will it
pleasure their relatives to know that lies is wrote over them, and that
everybody in the place knows that they be lies?” He pointed to a stone at our
feet which had been laid down as a slab, on which the seat was rested, close to
the edge of the cliff. “Read the lies on that thruff-stean,” he said. The
letters were upside down to me from where I sat, but Lucy was more opposite to
them, so she leant over and read:—
“Sacred to
the memory of George Canon, who died, in the hope of a glorious resurrection,
on July, 29, 1873, falling from the rocks at Kettleness. This tomb was erected
by his sorrowing mother to her dearly beloved son. ‘He was the only son of his
mother, and she was a widow.’ Really, Mr. Swales, I don’t see anything very
funny in that!” She spoke her comment very gravely and somewhat severely.
“Ye don’t
see aught funny! Ha! ha! But that’s because ye don’t gawm the sorrowin’ mother
was a hell-cat that hated him because he was acrewk’d—a regular lamiter he
was—an’ he hated her so that he committed suicide in order that she mightn’t
get an insurance she put on his life. He blew nigh the top of his head off with
an old musket that they had for scarin’ the crows with. ’Twarn’t for crows
then, for it brought the clegs and the dowps to him. That’s the way he fell off
the rocks. And, as to hopes of a glorious resurrection, I’ve often heard him
say masel’ that he hoped he’d go to hell, for his mother was so pious that
she’d be sure to go to heaven, an’ he didn’t want to addle where she was. Now
isn’t that stean at any rate”—he hammered it with his stick as he spoke—“a pack
of lies? and won’t it make Gabriel keckle when Geordie comes pantin’ up the
grees with the tombstean balanced on his hump, and asks it to be took as
evidence!”
I did not
know what to say, but Lucy turned the conversation as she said, rising up:—
“Oh, why
did you tell us of this? It is my favourite seat, and I cannot leave it; and
now I find I must go on sitting over the grave of a suicide.”
“That
won’t harm ye, my pretty; an’ it may make poor Geordie gladsome to have so trim
a lass sittin’ on his lap. That won’t hurt ye. Why, I’ve sat here off an’ on
for nigh twenty years past, an’ it hasn’t done me no
harm. Don’t ye fash about them as lies under ye, or that doesn’ lie there
either! It’ll be time for ye to be getting scart when ye see the tombsteans all
run away with, and the place as bare as a stubble-field. There’s the clock, an’
I must gang. My service to ye, ladies!” And off he hobbled.
Lucy and I
sat awhile, and it was all so beautiful before us that we took hands as we sat;
and she told me all over again about Arthur and their coming marriage. That
made me just a little heart-sick, for I haven’t heard from Jonathan for a whole
month.
The
same day. I came up here alone, for I
am very sad. There was no letter for me. I hope there cannot be anything the
matter with Jonathan. The clock has just struck nine. I see the lights
scattered all over the town, sometimes in rows where the streets are, and
sometimes singly; they run right up the Esk and die away in the curve of the
valley. To my left the view is cut off by a black line of roof of the old house
next the abbey. The sheep and lambs are bleating in the fields away behind me,
and there is a clatter of a donkey’s hoofs up the paved road below. The band on
the pier is playing a harsh waltz in good time, and further along the quay
there is a Salvation Army meeting in a back street. Neither of the bands hears
the other, but up here I hear and see them both. I wonder where Jonathan is and
if he is thinking of me! I wish he were here.
Dr. Seward’s Diary.
5 June.—The case of Renfield grows more interesting the more
I get to understand the man. He has certain qualities very largely developed;
selfishness, secrecy, and purpose. I wish I could get at what is the object of
the latter. He seems to have some settled scheme of his own, but what it is I
do not yet know. His redeeming quality is a love of animals, though, indeed, he
has such curious turns in it that I sometimes imagine he is only abnormally
cruel. His pets are of odd sorts. Just now his hobby is catching flies. He has
at present such a quantity that I have had myself to expostulate. To my
astonishment, he did not break out into a fury, as I expected, but took the
matter in simple seriousness. He thought for a moment, and then said: “May I
have three days? I shall clear them away.” Of course, I said that would do. I
must watch him.
18
June.—He has turned his mind now to
spiders, and has got several very big fellows in a box. He keeps feeding them
with his flies, and the number of the latter is becoming
sensibly diminished, although he has used half his food in attracting more
flies from outside to his room.
1 July.—His spiders are now becoming as great a nuisance as
his flies, and to-day I told him that he must get rid of them. He looked very
sad at this, so I said that he must clear out some of them, at all events. He
cheerfully acquiesced in this, and I gave him the same time as before for
reduction. He disgusted me much while with him, for when a horrid blow-fly,
bloated with some carrion food, buzzed into the room, he caught it, held it
exultantly for a few moments between his finger and thumb, and, before I knew
what he was going to do, put it in his mouth and ate it. I scolded him for it,
but he argued quietly that it was very good and very wholesome; that it was
life, strong life, and gave life to him. This gave me an idea, or the rudiment
of one. I must watch how he gets rid of his spiders. He has evidently some deep
problem in his mind, for he keeps a little note-book in which he is always
jotting down something. Whole pages of it are filled with masses of figures,
generally single numbers added up in batches, and then the totals added in
batches again, as though he were “focussing” some account, as the auditors put
it.
8 July.—There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary
idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious
cerebration! you will have to give the wall to your conscious brother. I kept
away from my friend for a few days, so that I might notice if there were any
change. Things remain as they were except that he has parted with some of his
pets and got a new one. He has managed to get a sparrow, and has already
partially tamed it. His means of taming is simple, for already the spiders have
diminished. Those that do remain, however, are well fed, for he still brings in
the flies by tempting them with his food.
19
July.—We are progressing. My friend
has now a whole colony of sparrows, and his flies and spiders are almost
obliterated. When I came in he ran to me and said he wanted to ask me a great
favour—a very, very great favour; and as he spoke he fawned on me like a dog. I
asked him what it was, and he said, with a sort of rapture in his voice and
bearing:—
“A kitten,
a nice little, sleek playful kitten, that I can play with, and teach, and
feed—and feed—and feed!” I was not unprepared for this
request, for I had noticed how his pets went on increasing in size and
vivacity, but I did not care that his pretty family of tame sparrows should be
wiped out in the same manner as the flies and the spiders; so I said I would
see about it, and asked him if he would not rather have a cat than a kitten.
His eagerness betrayed him as he answered:—
“Oh, yes,
I would like a cat! I only asked for a kitten lest you should refuse me a cat.
No one would refuse me a kitten, would they?” I shook my head, and said that at
present I feared it would not be possible, but that I would see about it. His
face fell, and I could see a warning of danger in it, for there was a sudden
fierce, sidelong look which meant killing. The man is an undeveloped homicidal
maniac. I shall test him with his present craving and see how it will work out;
then I shall know more.
10 p.
m.—I have visited him again and found
him sitting in a corner brooding. When I came in he threw himself on his knees
before me and implored me to let him have a cat; that his salvation depended
upon it. I was firm, however, and told him that he could not have it, whereupon
he went without a word, and sat down, gnawing his fingers, in the corner where
I had found him. I shall see him in the morning early.
20
July.—Visited Renfield very early,
before the attendant went his rounds. Found him up and humming a tune. He was
spreading out his sugar, which he had saved, in the window, and was manifestly
beginning his fly-catching again; and beginning it cheerfully and with a good
grace. I looked around for his birds, and not seeing them, asked him where they
were. He replied, without turning round, that they had all flown away. There
were a few feathers about the room and on his pillow a drop of blood. I said
nothing, but went and told the keeper to report to me if there were anything
odd about him during the day.
11 a.
m.—The attendant has just been to me
to say that Renfield has been very sick and has disgorged a whole lot of
feathers. “My belief is, doctor,” he said, “that he has eaten his birds, and
that he just took and ate them raw!”
11 p.
m.—I gave Renfield a strong opiate
to-night, enough to make even him sleep, and took away his pocket-book to look
at it. The thought that has been buzzing about my brain lately is complete, and
the theory proved. My homicidal maniac is of a peculiar kind. I shall have to
invent a new classification for him, and call him a
zoöphagous (life-eating) maniac; what he desires is to absorb as many lives as
he can, and he has laid himself out to achieve it in a cumulative way. He gave
many flies to one spider and many spiders to one bird, and then wanted a cat to
eat the many birds. What would have been his later steps? It would almost be
worth while to complete the experiment. It might be done if there were only a
sufficient cause. Men sneered at vivisection, and yet look at its results
to-day! Why not advance science in its most difficult and vital aspect—the
knowledge of the brain? Had I even the secret of one such mind—did I hold the
key to the fancy of even one lunatic—I might advance my own branch of science
to a pitch compared with which Burdon-Sanderson’s physiology or Ferrier’s
brain-knowledge would be as nothing. If only there were a sufficient cause! I
must not think too much of this, or I may be tempted; a good cause might turn
the scale with me, for may not I too be of an exceptional brain, congenitally?
How well
the man reasoned; lunatics always do within their own scope. I wonder at how
many lives he values a man, or if at only one. He has closed the account most
accurately, and to-day begun a new record. How many of us begin a new record
with each day of our lives?
To me it
seems only yesterday that my whole life ended with my new hope, and that truly
I began a new record. So it will be until the Great Recorder sums me up and
closes my ledger account with a balance to profit or loss. Oh, Lucy, Lucy, I
cannot be angry with you, nor can I be angry with my friend whose happiness is
yours; but I must only wait on hopeless and work. Work! work!
If I only
could have as strong a cause as my poor mad friend there—a good, unselfish
cause to make me work—that would be indeed happiness.
Mina Murray’s Journal.
26
July.—I am anxious, and it soothes me
to express myself here; it is like whispering to one’s self and listening at
the same time. And there is also something about the shorthand symbols that
makes it different from writing. I am unhappy about Lucy and about Jonathan. I
had not heard from Jonathan for some time, and was very concerned; but
yesterday dear Mr. Hawkins, who is always so kind, sent me a letter from him. I
had written asking him if he had heard, and he said the enclosed had just been
received. It is only a line dated from Castle Dracula, and
says that he is just starting for home. That is not like Jonathan; I do not
understand it, and it makes me uneasy. Then, too, Lucy, although she is so
well, has lately taken to her old habit of walking in her sleep. Her mother has
spoken to me about it, and we have decided that I am to lock the door of our
room every night. Mrs. Westenra has got an idea that sleep-walkers always go
out on roofs of houses and along the edges of cliffs and then get suddenly
wakened and fall over with a despairing cry that echoes all over the place.
Poor dear, she is naturally anxious about Lucy, and she tells me that her
husband, Lucy’s father, had the same habit; that he would get up in the night
and dress himself and go out, if he were not stopped. Lucy is to be married in
the autumn, and she is already planning out her dresses and how her house is to
be arranged. I sympathise with her, for I do the same, only Jonathan and I will
start in life in a very simple way, and shall have to try to make both ends
meet. Mr. Holmwood—he is the Hon. Arthur Holmwood, only son of Lord
Godalming—is coming up here very shortly—as soon as he can leave town, for his
father is not very well, and I think dear Lucy is counting the moments till he
comes. She wants to take him up to the seat on the churchyard cliff and show
him the beauty of Whitby. I daresay it is the waiting which disturbs her; she
will be all right when he arrives.
27
July.—No news from Jonathan. I am
getting quite uneasy about him, though why I should I do not know; but I do
wish that he would write, if it were only a single line. Lucy walks more than
ever, and each night I am awakened by her moving about the room. Fortunately,
the weather is so hot that she cannot get cold; but still the anxiety and the
perpetually being wakened is beginning to tell on me, and I am getting nervous
and wakeful myself. Thank God, Lucy’s health keeps up. Mr. Holmwood has been
suddenly called to Ring to see his father, who has been taken seriously ill.
Lucy frets at the postponement of seeing him, but it does not touch her looks;
she is a trifle stouter, and her cheeks are a lovely rose-pink. She has lost
that anæmic look which she had. I pray it will all last.
3
August.—Another week gone, and no
news from Jonathan, not even to Mr. Hawkins, from whom I have heard. Oh, I do
hope he is not ill. He surely would have written. I look at that last letter of
his, but somehow it does not satisfy me. It does not read like him, and yet it is
his writing. There is no mistake of that. Lucy has not walked much in her sleep
the last week, but there is an odd concentration about
her which I do not understand; even in her sleep she seems to be watching me.
She tries the door, and finding it locked, goes about the room searching for
the key.
6
August.—Another three days, and no
news. This suspense is getting dreadful. If I only knew where to write to or
where to go to, I should feel easier; but no one has heard a word of Jonathan
since that last letter. I must only pray to God for patience. Lucy is more
excitable than ever, but is otherwise well. Last night was very threatening,
and the fishermen say that we are in for a storm. I must try to watch it and
learn the weather signs. To-day is a grey day, and the sun as I write is hidden
in thick clouds, high over Kettleness. Everything is grey—except the green
grass, which seems like emerald amongst it; grey earthy rock; grey clouds,
tinged with the sunburst at the far edge, hang over the grey sea, into which
the sand-points stretch like grey fingers. The sea is tumbling in over the
shallows and the sandy flats with a roar, muffled in the sea-mists drifting
inland. The horizon is lost in a grey mist. All is vastness; the clouds are
piled up like giant rocks, and there is a “brool” over the sea that sounds like
some presage of doom. Dark figures are on the beach here and there, sometimes
half shrouded in the mist, and seem “men like trees walking.” The fishing-boats
are racing for home, and rise and dip in the ground swell as they sweep into
the harbour, bending to the scuppers. Here comes old Mr. Swales. He is making
straight for me, and I can see, by the way he lifts his hat, that he wants to
talk....
I have
been quite touched by the change in the poor old man. When he sat down beside
me, he said in a very gentle way:—
“I want to
say something to you, miss.” I could see he was not at ease, so I took his poor
old wrinkled hand in mine and asked him to speak fully; so he said, leaving his
hand in mine:—
“I’m
afraid, my deary, that I must have shocked you by all the wicked things I’ve
been sayin’ about the dead, and such like, for weeks past; but I didn’t mean
them, and I want ye to remember that when I’m gone. We aud folks that be
daffled, and with one foot abaft the krok-hooal, don’t altogether like to think
of it, and we don’t want to feel scart of it; an’ that’s why I’ve took to
makin’ light of it, so that I’d cheer up my own heart a bit. But, Lord love ye,
miss, I ain’t afraid of dyin’, not a bit; only I don’t want to die if I can
help it. My time must be nigh at hand now, for I be aud, and a hundred years is
too much for any man to expect; and I’m so nigh it that
the Aud Man is already whettin’ his scythe. Ye see, I can’t get out o’ the
habit of caffin’ about it all at once; the chafts will wag as they be used to.
Some day soon the Angel of Death will sound his trumpet for me. But don’t ye
dooal an’ greet, my deary!”—for he saw that I was crying—“if he should come
this very night I’d not refuse to answer his call. For life be, after all, only
a waitin’ for somethin’ else than what we’re doin’; and death be all that we
can rightly depend on. But I’m content, for it’s comin’ to me, my deary, and
comin’ quick. It may be comin’ while we be lookin’ and wonderin’. Maybe it’s in
that wind out over the sea that’s bringin’ with it loss and wreck, and sore
distress, and sad hearts. Look! look!” he cried suddenly. “There’s something in
that wind and in the hoast beyont that sounds, and looks, and tastes, and
smells like death. It’s in the air; I feel it comin’. Lord, make me answer
cheerful when my call comes!” He held up his arms devoutly, and raised his hat.
His mouth moved as though he were praying. After a few minutes’ silence, he got
up, shook hands with me, and blessed me, and said good-bye, and hobbled off. It
all touched me, and upset me very much.
I was glad
when the coastguard came along, with his spy-glass under his arm. He stopped to
talk with me, as he always does, but all the time kept looking at a strange
ship.
“I can’t
make her out,” he said; “she’s a Russian, by the look of her; but she’s
knocking about in the queerest way. She doesn’t know her mind a bit; she seems
to see the storm coming, but can’t decide whether to run up north in the open,
or to put in here. Look there again! She is steered mighty strangely, for she
doesn’t mind the hand on the wheel; changes about with every puff of wind.
We’ll hear more of her before this time to-morrow.”
To be
continued
