"Day dursn't touch them;" and saying this, she fell to work with eager feverishness, removing the pots and boards.

When she had done so, it was revealed that the earth under the boards had broken through into another cellar or cave, in which some light could be seen.
"I always heard the sea when I was in this place, and one day I broke through this hole.

The man that first had the farm made it, I s'pose, to pitch his seaweed into from the shore." She let her long figure down through the hole easily enough, for there were places to set the feet on, and landed on a heap of earth and dried weed.

When Caius had dropped down into this second chamber, he saw that it had evidently been used for just the purpose she had mentioned.

The seaweed gathered from the beach after storms was in common use for enriching the fields, and someone in a past generation had apparently dug this cave in the soft rock and clay of the cliff; it was at a height above the sea-line at which the seaweed could be conveniently pitched into it from a cart on the shore below.