Page:Man Who Laughs (Estes and Lauriat 1869) v1.djvu/159

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FACE TO FACE WITH NIGHT.
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But suddenly something terrible appeared before them in the darkness. On the port bow arose a tall, perpendicular, opaque mass, a square tower as it were. They gazed at it, open-mouthed. The storm was driving them straight towards it. They knew not what it was. It was the Ortach rock emerging from the depths of ocean.