Capitolo 92
In the further small bay some low cottages of stone crouched him. A wide-touched the fund
sailing boat placed there, it threw on tall on the beach. Approximately three
, as I sat and I looked, two men started to launch him/it. The sea worked
stop; tide that enters; the sou'-wester that anchors increases in strength to a
strong wind; to the signal-one man show on the cliff, the danger-cone was raised.
White sprinkles danced in air. The great black clouds rolled on boiling from
upwind; grumbling of low thunder; a storm threatened.
One of the men was her Geyt, the other one a fisherman.
He jumped in, and it put away through the you practise the surfing with an air of triumph. Him
it was a splendid sailor. His/her leapt of the boat through the contact breakers and it flew
in front of the wind with a mere rag of cloth. "Dangerous time to be
out!" I exclaimed to the fisherman that was standing with hands buried in his
pockets, looking at him/it.
"Ay that ur is, zur!" the men answered. "Doa doesn't like the glance or' the ut. But
thik there the gen'leman, 'him or of the one of ee' Oxford, 'ees tell me; and they'm a
adventurous and principal destiny, them volk of university. 'Ee street from 'isself droo the
starm, all so var as Lundy!"
"Will it arrive him?" I asked, anxiously, having my his/her own idea on the
subject.
"Doesn't Doa seem as ut, does zur make ut? Ur owes, a' urs don't owe, a' the yit again
urs owe. Powerful 'ards put ur both to maake in a starm, to be zure,
Lundy. Zaid the God 'ould dezide. But ur 'ould is not warned, ur
'ould not; a' voolhardy volk as the zayin' it is, it has to go them really
voolhardy perdition waay!"
It was the last that I have seen of her Geyt I live. Next morning the lifeless body
of "the man that was wanted for the Campden Hill mystery" is thrown above from
the waves on the beach of Lundy. The God had decided.
Hugo had not calculated badly. "The fortune in their suicides", says Hilda Wade;
and, strange to say, the fortune of the Her Geyts bore him/it in good
still sets. From a miracle of the fate, his/her children were not marked as