I discovered it by accident, but I want you to know that I'm heart and soul with you.

You may trust me in tonight's job as if I were Ivery himself.' He swung round and looked at me sharply.

His eyes were hot again, as I remembered them at our first meeting.
'What do you mean?
How much do you know ?' The hammer was going hard in my forehead, and I had to pull myself together to answer.
'I know that at the end of this crack a message was left last night, and that someone came out of the sea and picked it up.

That someone is coming again when darkness falls, and there will be another message.' He had turned his head away.

'You are talking nonsense.