and fled,
carrying a voice of panic that cleared out the establishment from end
to end front and rear. But not Silva. Not the yellow-faced captain, who
came back from the back of the room and charged with uplifted cue,
snarling--who was met halfway: stopped, overwhelmed and crushed in his
tracks as by a hail of thunderbolts....

* * * * *

When Mr. Merry led the girl out they had to cling for a time to each
other and to the handrail that led down toward the landing.

All about them were the walls of the night, the dark, blank walls of
land and sky and their prison. But outward lay a great silvered streak.
To seaward they could gaze down a dim vista of rocky and deserted islets
where the moon showed like an open silver gateway, like a wide, bright
door to the uncharted spaces beyond--far beyond, as Merry's gesture
showed her.

Of that consummation a whisper was caught, it seems, through the masking
vines overhead: a last glimpse of them as they reeled there together on
the brink.

"And you wasn't--you wasn't scared this time!" she gasped. "You
ain't--you ain't scared now?"

"No," he said. "That is where we are going--out yonder.... I've a little
prau canoe down here at the steps--if we can reach it.... It's
where we belong, and our one chance. Over the curve of the earth--among
the islands of the shallow sea. Where no one ever does go and nobody can
follow."

"There's nothing much to eat. Nor drink, neither," she added quite
practically. "We will die."

"What does that matter?... But a native might pull through, in the
native way. And if it might happen to a native, it might happen to
us.... Come!"

They went.

* * * * *

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