[The Light That Failed by Rudyard Kipling]@TWC D-Link bookThe Light That Failed CHAPTER VII 19/49
'It sounds like a heart beating. Where is it ?' Dick was so angry at this sudden wrench to his pleadings that he could not trust himself to speak, and in this silence caught the sound.
Maisie from her seat under the gun watched him with a certain amount of fear. She wished so much that he would be sensible and cease to worry her with over-sea emotion that she both could and could not understand.
She was not prepared, however, for the change in his face as he listened. 'It's a steamer,' he said,--'a twin-screw steamer, by the beat.
I can't make her out, but she must be standing very close in-shore.
Ah!' as the red of a rocket streaked the haze, 'she's standing in to signal before she clears the Channel.' 'Is it a wreck ?' said Maisie, to whom these words were as Greek. Dick's eyes were turned to the sea.
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