I am not sure when, it goes, but it starts from 'The Three Jolly Wreckers' at the other end of the churchtown." "'The Three Jolly Wreckers!' That's rather a cynical name for a Cornish inn, isn't it ?" "Oh, the Cornish people are not ashamed of the old wrecking days, I assure you." He accompanied Barrant to the door with the lamp, which he held above his head to light him down the garden path.

Barrant, glancing back, saw him looking after him, his face outlined in the darkness by the yellow rays of the lamp..