CHAPTER XXVIII HOW WE WALKED INTO THE TIGER'S MOUTH 264 CHAPTER XXIX HOW THE HAWK SWOOPED DOWN ON BRECQHOU 277 CHAPTER XXX HOW I FOUND MY LOVE IN THE CLEFT 283 CHAPTER XXXI HOW I HELD THE NARROW WAY 294 CHAPTER XXXII HOW WE WENT TO EARTH 307 CHAPTER XXXIII HOW LOVE COULD SEE IN THE DARK 312 CHAPTER XXXIV HOW LOVE FOUGHT DEATH IN THE DARK 324 CHAPTER XXXV HOW WE HEARD STRANGE NEWS 332 CHAPTER XXXVI HOW A STORM CAME OUT OF THE WEST 338 CHAPTER XXXVII HOW WE HELD OUR HOMES 348 CHAPTER XXXVIII HOW WE RAN AGAINST THE LAW FOR THE SAKE OF A WOMAN 357 CHAPTER XXXIX HOW I CAME INTO RICH TREASURE 373 ILLUSTRATIONS THE WEST COAST OF SARK AND BRECQHOU _Frontispiece_ THE CREUX ROAD _Facing Page_ 5 HAVRE GOSSELIN 19 TINTAGEU 47 THE LADY GROTTO 65 A QUIET LANE 117 THE EPERQUERIE 132 IN THE CLEFT OF A ROCK 197 BELOW BEAUMANOIR 226 BRECQHOU FROM THE SOUTH 273 THE COUPEE 297 THE CHASM OF THE BOUTIQUES 308 THE WATER CAVE 321 EPERQUERIE BAY 349 DIXCART BAY 352 CREUX TUNNEL 355 CHAPTER I HOW PAUL MARTEL FELL OUT WITH SERCQ To give you a clear understanding of matters I must begin at the beginning and set things down in their proper order, though, as you will see, that was not by any means the way in which I myself came to learn them. For my mother and my grandfather were not given to overmuch talk at the best of times, and all my boyish questionings concerning my father left me only the bare knowledge that, like many another Island man in those times--ay, and in all times--he had gone down to the sea and had never returned therefrom. That was too common a thing to require any explanation, and it was not till long afterwards, when I was a grown man, and so many other strange things had happened that it was necessary, or at all events seemly, that I should know all about my father, that George Hamon, under the compulsion of a very strange and unexpected happening, told me all he knew of the matter.