He could only devoutly hope and pray that a clean wind might come and
put the shadows to flight and let the sun of truth shine through.
CHAPTER XXIV
HOW HE SAW STRANGE SIGHTS
Living thus face to face with Nature, and drawn through lack of other
occupation into unusually intimate association with her, Gard found his
lonely rock a centre of strange and novel experience.
Situated as he was, even small things forced themselves largely upon his
observation and wrought themselves into his memory. He found it good to
lose himself for a time in these visible and tangible actualities,
rather than in useless efforts after an understanding of the mystery of
which he was the victim and centre.
He had given over much time to pondering the subject of Tom Hamon's
death, but had come no nearer any reasonable solution of it. That
hideous doubt as to himself in the matter recurred at times, but he
always hastened to dissipate it by some other interest more practical
and palpable, lest it should bring him to ultimate belief in its
possibility, and so to madness.
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