As he still watched her she turned again, and made her way swift and straight toward the rocky point.

Caius ran, following, upon the shore, but after a minute he perceived that she could disappear round the point before, either by swimming or wading, he could get near her.

He could not make his way around the point by the shore; his best means of keeping her in sight was to climb the cliff, from which the whole bay on the other side would be visible.
Like a man running a race for life, he leaped back to a place where it was possible to climb, and, once on the top, made his way by main force through a growth of low bushes until he could overlook the bay.

But, lo! when he came there no creature was visible in the sunny sea beneath or on the shelving red bank which lay all plain to his view.

Far and wide he scanned the ocean, and long he stood and watched.