![]() ![]() I suppose a bird or two may have been crying then as they were a little later, but there was not a light nor a sign of anything human being within a hundred miles. In a semicircle the shore rose black, towering at either horn (and especially on the south) into high dark cliffs. The sea was as flat and calm as you can ever get on an Atlantic coast-a glassy surface, but always a gentle regular bursting of foam upon the beach. The segment of a waning moon was just rising, but the sky was covered with clouds, except right overhead where a bevy of stars twinkled, and it was a dim though not a dark night. The war might have been waging on another planet. If any one had been watching the bay that August night (which, fortunately for us, there was not), they would have seen up till an hour after midnight as lonely and peaceful a scene as if it had been some inlet in Greenland. ![]() LIEUTENANT VON BELKE'S NARRATIVE CONCLUDED. LIEUTENANT VON BELKE'S NARRATIVE RESUMED. William Blackwood & Sons' Popular New Books. LIEUTENANT VON BELKE'S NARRATIVE CONCLUDED ![]() THE NARRATIVE OF LIEUTENANT VON BELKE (OF THE GERMAN NAVY) ![]()
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