About This Book
Immediately I was wide awake, straining my ears to listen, and to catch every movement from outside the house. My pulse increased its beat with excitement—for I was not afraid, I am certain—and the thudding mingled with the rumble of the sea, making it harder for me to pick up this other, new sound. For a moment, I could hear nothing unusual, and then it came again, and I knew at once what it was. Someone was walking on the gravel paths that surrounded the cottage.