the other two. Of these two, Tor- rence, who examined them closely, thinks one was a woman and the other a man.
Some of the old residents remem- bered the incident of the Narcissus then, and ventured the theory that the yacht, in trying; to escape the destroy- ers, had struck a hidden reef of Bake- lief, going down immediately with all hands. These were survivors who had crawled to the cavern and hidden there only to be trapped by the tide. But those who examined the old rec- ords said this could hardly be’ so, since there had been no woman on board the Narcissus after she was stolen.
Nobody ever knew what was in the ii’on chest. But it must have been
treasure, because shortly after their return Mr. and Mrs. Hearne seemed to have come into great wealth. Of this they spent little on themselves, preferring rather to make bounteous grants to charity with a peculiar lean- ing toward the efforts of the Ameri- can Relief Association in its work with the orphans of Russia.
As for Bakelief — it is a place avoid- ed now. Since that day the phantom ship was seen, followed so soon by the finding of the skeletons, no mariner in his right mind would be found within rifle-shot of its beetling, fog-swept crags. And those that pass there at whatever distance report they hear on the rising tide the beat of waves in the cavern and a moaning of receding waters like the Availing of lost souls.
[ THE END
Sonnets of the Midnight Hours
by Donald Wandrei
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11. Doom
Oblivion had laid its deathless curse
Upon all things of life and time and space;
Of death itself, there now was left no trace,
And DOOM had fallen on the universe.
The heavens like a dead, colossal hearse
Contained no thought or dust of thing or race;
In all infinity was left no place
Where Death in death all things did not immerse.
For Death the Conqueror at. last was king;
His realms Avere vacua, he proved his voav
That all Avould pass, that nothing Avould abide.
Not anvAvhere Avas life nor anything,
Nor A'estige of the worlds of old ; and uoav,
Upon his fallen kingdoms, God had died.
