J. S. Fletcher

“ They went from the rock back again to the headlands, but in a slightly different direction: this made Cherry remark to me, in an aside that it showed that Krevin, having shot Mandhu Khan, made no attempt to go near his dead body, but immediately sheered off, probably bent on saving himself by securing the Hindu’s boat. And certainly, judging by the doings of the bloodhounds, he made for the sea, following a track along the cliffs for some distance, but keeping steadily to the valleys and gullies which lay between its edge and the middle, more elevated, part of the island. ”

“ CHAPTER XXIII FAMILY HONOUR The bloodhounds, their owner, and the men following them had swept on before us, on another line of route, to a point overlooking the headlands and the beach. But there they had turned, and now they were coming back in our direction. There were many great boulders of grey limestone or granite outcropping from the heather at that point, and at one of these, big and broad enough to conceal a man, they came to a momentary halt, some fifteen yards away from us. Cherry and I exchanged glances: the same thought had occurred to both, simultaneously. ”

“ But others, going on the lines that he escaped from Melsie Island by night, argued that he would make for the nearest point on the mainland and that he would be helped by the incoming tide to get there: once there, they said, he could strike inland, covered by the darkness, reach some adjacent line of railway and get away by an early morning train to London. ”