Part 19 (2/2)
I am the new man who is to look after Mr Horsfal's Golden Crescent property I shall be more or less of a common country storekeeper after to-day”
”Heard about that store fro about it, too It'll be convenient for the Ca for the settlers up here”
She juot to beat it, Mister----”
”George Bremner,” I put in
”My name's Rita;--Rita Clark I stay over at the ranch there, the one with the red-roofed houses This island's nauess so!”
She did not venture any 's I can remember,” she answered
”Like it?”
”I love it It's all I got Never been away fro akin to longing in her voice
”I love it all the same,--all but that over there”
As she spoke, she shi+vered and pointed away out to the great perpendicular rock, with its jagged, devilish, shark-like teeth, which rose sheer out of the water and stood black, forbidding and snarling, even in the sunshi+ne, to the right, at the entrance to the Bay, a quarter of a mile or so from the far horn of Golden Crescent
”You don't like rocks?”
”Some rocks,” she whispered, ”but not 'The Ghoul'”
”The Ghoul,” I repeated with a shudder ”Ugh!--what a name Who on earth saddled it with such a horrible name?”
”nobody on earth Guess it must have been the devil in hell, for it's a friend of his”
Her face grew pale and a nameless horror crept into her eyes
”It ain't nice to look on now,--is it?”
”No!” I granted
”You want to see it in the winter, when there's a stor over it in a white foa on to it Oh!--I tell you what it is,--it's hellish, that's all It's well named The Ghoul,--it's a robber of the dead”
”Robber of the dead!--what do you mean?”