oif from the Port Enfer, was puzzled to make
out the movements of a vessel between the Boue Corneille and the
Moubrette. The man must have been a good pilot, and in great haste to
reach some destination to risk his boat there.

Just as eight o'clock was striking at the Catel, the tavern-keeper at
Cobo Bay observed with astonishment a sail out beyond the Boue du Jardin
and the Grunettes, and very near the Susanne and the Western Grunes.

Not far from Cobo Bay, upon the solitary point of the Houmet of Vason
Bay, two lovers were lingering, hesitating before they parted for the
night. The young woman addressed the young man with the words, "I am not
going because I don't care to stay with you: I've a great deal to do."
Their farewell kiss was interrupted by a good sized sailing boat which
passed very near them, making for the direction of the Messellettes.

Monsieur le Peyre des Norgiots, an inhabitant of Cotillon Pipet, was
engaged about nine o'clock in the evening in examining a hole made by
some trespassers in the hedge of his property called La Jennerotte, and
his "_friquet_ planted with trees." Even while ascertaining the amount
of the damage, he could not help observing a fishing-boat audaciously
making its way round the Crocq Point at that hour of night.

On the morrow of a tempest, when there is always some agitation upon the
sea, that route was extremely unsafe. It was rash to choose it, at
least, unless the steersman knew all the channels by heart.

At half-past nine o'clock, at L'Equerrier, a trawler carrying home his
net stopped for a time to observe between Colombelle and the Soufleresse
something which looked like a boat. The boat was in a dangerous
position. Sudden gusts of wind of a very dangerous kind are very common
in that spot. The _Soufleresse_, or Blower, derives its name from the
sudden gusts of wind which it seems to direct upon the vessels, which by
rare chance find their way thither.

At the moment when the moon was rising, the tide being high and the sea
being quiet, in the little strait of Li-Hou, the solitary keeper of the
island of Li-Hou was considerably startled. A long black object slowly
passed between the moon and him. This dark form, high and narrow,
resembled a winding-sheet spread out and moving. It glided along the
line of the top of the wall formed by the ridges of rock. The keeper of
Li-Hou fancied that he had beheld the Black Lady.

The White Lady inhabits the Tau de Pez d'Amo