rew throbbing, and the prisoner peering
through his porthole across the sunlit waters that he believed had
closed for ever over his comrade's head. Suddenly the sun sank behind
the Island of Elba, the lane of dancing sunlight was instantaneously
quenched and swallowed in the trackless waste, and in the middle
distance, already miles astern, either my sight deceived me or a black
speck bobbed amid the gray. The bugle had blown for dinner: it may well
be that all save myself had ceased to strain an eye. And now I lost
what I had found, now it rose, now sank, and now I gave it up utterly.
Yet anon it would rise again, a mere mote dancing in the dim gray
distance, drifting towards a purple island, beneath a fading western
sky, streaked with dead gold and cerise. And night fell before I knew
whether it was a human head or not.

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