SYBILLA'S VENGEANCE There stands a solitary rock at the base of which is a cave, on the seashore of La Vendee.

Behind stretch the marshes, and the place is shut in and desolate.

Birds cry there.

The bittern booms in the thickets of grey willow and wet-shot alder.

The herons nest upon the pine trees near by, till the stale scent of them comes down the wind from far.