Of course I did not stay to watch, but a
little later I met Miss Van Tyne, and she looked white and rigid.
She has not left her room since."
"You take a great interest in Miss Van Tyne. It is well you are
not in my place."
"I half wish I was and had your chances. You are more pitiless
than the waves from which you saved her."
"I can't help being just what I am," he said coldly. "Good-night."
And he too disappeared for the rest of the evening.
The rain continued to fall in blinding torrents, and the building
fairly trembled under the violence of the wind. The guests drew
together in the lighted rooms, and sought by varied amusements to
pass the time until the fierceness of the storm abated, few caring
to retire while the uproar of the elements was so great.
At last as the storm passed away, and the late-rising moon threw a
sickly gleam on the tumultuous waters, Eva looked from her window
with sleepless eyes, thinking sadly and bitterly of the past and
future. Suddenly a dark figure appeared on the beach in the track
of the moonlight.
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