Angel Island

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It was the morning after the shipwreck. The five men still lay where they had slept. A long time had passed since anybody had spoken. A long time had passed since anybody had moved. Indeed it looked almost as if they would never speak or move again. So bruised and bloodless of skin were they so bleak and sharp of feature so stark and hollow of eye so rigid and moveless of limb that they might have been corpses. Mentally too they were almost moribund. They stared vacantly straight out to sea. They stared with the unwinking fixedness of those whose gaze is caught in hypnotic trance.