The House of Silence (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The House of Silence So, after satisfying himself that the boat was really being pulled across the reef, he hurried down the steep path that ran from the top of the cliff to the carriage-road beneath. Before reaching the lower road he twice again spied the boat. Then the white mass of Beach House, perched at the end of a short promontory, or "nab, " shut it out of sight, but in those two glimpses he had seen a lowered sail, and the phosphorescent sheen of a pair of oars. A dog barked from the courtyard of Beach House as Hewin's drew near, but quieted down when he leaped to the sands. Otherwise all was still. He walked seaward round the base of the sheer rock that lifted the silent house some sixty feet above high-water mark. When he next sighted the boat, she had swung broadside on, and he now saw that she held but one man, and was no fishing coble, but a lighter craft, built for pleasure. He lurked under the shadow of the rock until the man, who must have been a native of this rock-bound coast, and one well skilled in the ways of the sea, had unshipped an oar in order to drive the boat's prow into the sand amid the last ripples of the tide. Then Hewins stepped forward. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.