1/9 CHAPTER FIVE. My blood was flushed, and I strolled down upon the beach to enjoy the cool fresh breeze that was flowing in from the Mexican Sea. The wine even heightened its loveliness to an illusion. The stars were eclipsed and scarcely visible, except a few of the larger ones, as the belt of Orion, the planet Venus, and the luminous radii of the Southern Cross. This was broken by the line of coral reef, over which the surf curled and sparkled with a phosphoric brightness. |