I took no notice of it at the time, but to-night, after dinner, I wandered out here again, and again I fancied I heard it.

It got on my nerves to such an extent that I fetched Robert here, a coil of rope, put on some shoes with spikes and tried to remember that I was an Alpine climber." "You've been down to the beach and back, sir ?" the inspector asked, looking over a little wonderingly.
"Every inch of the way.

The last eighty feet or so I had to scramble." "Did you discover anything, sir ?" "Not a thing.

I couldn't even find a broken twig in any of the little clumps of outgrowing trees.

There wasn't a sign of the sand having been disturbed anywhere down the face of the cliff, and I shouldn't think a human being had been on that beach during our lifetimes.