And then--then--he would catch his dream, he would chain for ever the fairy vision that might never be granted again.
There came a boom like a distant gunshot on the other side of the Spear Point Rock, and again, but very far away, there sounded the tolling of the bell beyond the reef.

The man's heart gave a great leap.

It was coming! In the same moment the girl's voice came to him across the pool, mingling with the rushing of great waters.
"The tide is coming up fast.

It won't be safe much longer." "Don't move! Don't move!" he cried back almost frantically.

"It is absolutely safe.