"The old woman had that in her mind." "Why so ?" argued Trevethick.

"What was the _Firefly_ to her that she should think she saw her drive into the bay, and break to pieces against the rock out yonder?
And why should she tell her vision to Harry ?" "That certainly seems strange, indeed," said Richard, "as showing she attached importance to the affair herself.

It was a most curious coincidence, to say the least of it.

But what is this Flying Dutchman, of which you also spoke?
I did not know he ever came so far out of his proper latitude as this." "He's seen before great storms, however," said Trevethick; "you ask the coast-guard men, and hear what _they_ say.

There's many a craft has put out to her from Gethin, and come quite close, so that a man might almost reach her with a boat-hook, and then, all of a sudden, there is nothing to be seen but the big waves." John Trevethick had more to say to the same effect, to which Richard listened with attentive courtesy; while at the same time he held to the same skeptical view entertained by Solomon.