Excerpt: ...somewhat disturbed to 157 have seen a man peering down at them from the top of a mound. He had crawled up the steep incline and was lying flat on his stomach in the tall grass. His face is familiar enough to us by now, for he had only one eye, but that one, like the eye of the three mythological witches, gleamed brilliantly and wickedly and nothing escaped its range. He smiled as if he rather enjoyed watching the dancers, and especially his one wicked eye followed the movements of Ben and Charlie and Billie ...
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Excerpt: ...somewhat disturbed to 157 have seen a man peering down at them from the top of a mound. He had crawled up the steep incline and was lying flat on his stomach in the tall grass. His face is familiar enough to us by now, for he had only one eye, but that one, like the eye of the three mythological witches, gleamed brilliantly and wickedly and nothing escaped its range. He smiled as if he rather enjoyed watching the dancers, and especially his one wicked eye followed the movements of Ben and Charlie and Billie Campbell. Presently when the whirling couples had tumbled breathlessly on the grass, fanning themselves with their hats and Ben had called out: "We'd better be getting along now," the man slipped away as silently as a snake and disappeared somewhere below. "To the caves," cried Percy, as they gathered up the rugs and cushions and hastened down the cliff to the motor. "I suppose it's safe to leave 'The Comet' here without any one to look after him," Billie had observed, and the others had agreed that it was. "As safe as on any other desert island," Ben had answered. 158 It seemed impossible that anything could happen in that lonely, quiet place, which was like a deserted paradise to the girls and boys that beautiful afternoon. There was nothing about the locality or the weather to arouse uncomfortable suspicions. The patch of sky, which was revealed to them just overhead between the tall, straight pine trees, was like a beautiful deep blue canopy. Even the watchful Ben could not have told that the cloud, so short a time ago no larger than a man's hand, now stretched itself across the horizon in a long, thick line of black. "The caves are the most fun of all," said Percy, leading the way to the cliffs overlooking the ocean. "There are dozens of them, some little and some very large. The lower ones fill up at high tide, but the upper ones are safe enough." The cliff was honeycombed with small rocky chambers, and as...
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