`` Evidently they do n't belong to the race that knows Joseph , '' laughed Gilbert . `` Have you ever found out who that girl was whom you thought so beautiful ? '' `` No . Somehow I have never remembered to ask about her . But I 've never seen her anywhere , so I suppose she must have been a stranger . Oh , the sun has just vanished -- and there 's the light . '' As the dusk deepened , the great beacon cut swathes of light through it , sweeping in a circle over the fields and the harbor , the sandbar and the gulf . `` I feel as if it might catch me and whisk me leagues out to sea , '' said Anne , as one drenched them with radiance ; and she felt rather relieved when they got so near the Point that they were inside the range of those dazzling , recurrent flashes . As they turned into the little lane that led across the fields to the Point they met a man coming out of it -- a man of such extraordinary appearance that for a moment they both frankly stared . He was a decidedly fine-looking person-tall , broad-shouldered , well-featured , with a Roman nose and frank gray eyes ; he was dressed in a prosperous farmer 's Sunday best ; in so far he might have been any inhabitant of Four Winds or the Glen . But , flowing over his breast nearly to his knees , was a river of crinkly brown beard ; and adown his back , beneath his commonplace felt hat , was a corresponding cascade of thick , wavy , brown hair . `` Anne , '' murmured Gilbert , when they were out of earshot , `` you did n't put what Uncle Dave calls ' a little of the Scott Act ' in that lemonade you gave me just before we left home , did you ? '' `` No , I did n't , '' said Anne , stifling her laughter , lest the retreating enigma should hear here . `` Who in the world can he be ? '' `` I do n't know ; but if Captain Jim keeps apparitions like that down at this Point I 'm going to carry cold iron in my pocket when I come here . He was n't a sailor , or one might pardon his eccentricity of appearance ; he must belong to the over-harbor clans . Uncle Dave says they have several freaks over there . '' `` Uncle Dave is a little prejudiced , I think . You know all the over-harbor people who come to the Glen Church seem very nice . Oh , Gilbert , is n't this beautiful ? ''
The Four XXXXX light was built on a spur of red sand-stone cliff jutting out into the gulf .
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