What a glorious destiny it must be to have something to say that the whole world is listening for , and to be able to say it in words that will live forever ! It must be the noblest human lot . '' `` Yet some of those men and women were neither good nor noble , '' said Reeves gently , `` and many of them were unhappy . '' Helen dismissed the subject as abruptly as she always did when the conversation touched too nearly on the sensitive edge of her soul dreams . `` Do you know where I am taking you today ? '' she said . `` No -- where ? '' `` To what the people here call the Kelpy 's Cave . I hate to go there . I believe there is something uncanny about it , but I think you will like to see it . It is a dark little cave in the curve of a small cove , and on each side the headlands of rock run far out . At low tide we can walk right around , but when the tide comes in it fills the Kelpy 's Cave . If you were there and let the tide come past the points , you would be drowned unless you could swim , for the rocks are so steep and high it is impossible to climb them . '' Reeves was interested . `` Was anyone ever caught by the tide ? '' `` Yes , '' returned Helen , with a shudder . `` Once , long ago , before I was born , a girl went around the shore to the cave and fell asleep there -- and the tide came in and she was drowned . She was young and very pretty , and was to have been married the next week . I 've been afraid of the place ever since . '' The treacherous cave proved to be a picturesque and innocent-looking spot , with the beach of glittering sand before it and the high gloomy walls of rock on either hand .
`` I must come here some day and sketch it , '' said Reeves enthusiastically , `` and you must be the Kelpy , Helen , and sit in the cave with your hair wrapped XXXXX you and seaweed clinging to it . ''
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