endent sea reached vast and magnetic to its invisible
horizon. A sudden distaste seized John Woolfolk for the dragging death
ceremonials of land. Halvard had known the shore mostly as a turbulent
and unclean strip that had finally brought about his end.

He leaned forward and found beyond any last doubt that the other was
dead; a black, clotted surface adhered to the wound which his pride,
his invincible determination, had driven him to deny.

In the space beneath the afterdeck Woolfolk found a spare folded
anchor for the tender, a length of rope; and he slowly completed the
preparations for his purpose. He lifted the body to the narrow deck
outside the rail, and, in a long dip, the waves carried it smoothly
and soundlessly away. John Woolfolk said:

"'... Commit his body to the deep, looking for the general resurrection
... through ... Christ.'"

Then, upright and motionless at the wheel, with the wan radiance of
the binnacle lamp floating up over his hollow cheeks and set gaze, he
held the ketch southward through the night.

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