Kotick thought that that was good advice, so he swam round to his own
beach, hauled out, and slept for half an hour, twitching all over, as seals will.
He walked down the
beach straight to where he had left me lying, and I had a fleeting feeling of regret at not being able to see his surprise when he did not find me.
"They got away," I said cheerfully; but I felt a sinking at the heart and seemed to divine the presence of bleached bones somewhere on that
beach.
Then I stopped once more, for the crawling multitude of crabs had disappeared, and the red
beach, save for its livid green liverworts and lichens, seemed lifeless.
As I sat there upon the
beach of the little fiord eating my unpalatable shell-fish, I commenced to wonder how it had been that the four savages had been able to reach me, though I had been unable to escape from my natu-ral prison.
Curiosity prompted me to walk down to the
beach, for the scene was very beautiful.
Saxon and Billy ran barefooted up and down the
beach, pursuing each other with brandished snakes of seaweed and playing like children for an hour.
By noon of the next day the fruit would be heaped up in stacks on the
beach, in readiness for the boats which he then intended to bring into the bay.
So they fought their way back up the
beach. The other blacks caught hold of the man-horse and pulled and tugged.
Dag Daughtry stood up and turned carelessly along the
beach. Michael looked after him, but did not follow.
Still further and finally, I knew Peggy's mother and father well, and have often known the warm surge in the heart of me at the sight of that faithful couple running side by side along the
beach. Terrence was his real name.
