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 about you and seaweed clinging to it . '' `` Do you think a kelpy would look like that ? '' said the girl dreamily . `` I do n't . I think it is a wild , wicked little sea imp , malicious and mocking and cruel , and it sits here and watches for victims . '' `` Well , never mind your sea kelpies , '' Reeves said , fishing out his Longfellow . `` They are a tricky folk , if all tales be true , and it is supposed to be a very rash thing to talk about them in their own haunts . I want to read you ` The Building of the Ship . ' You will like it , I 'm sure . '' When the tide turned they went home . `` We have n't seen the kelpy , after all , '' said Reeves . `` I think I shall see him some day , '' said Helen gravely .
`` I think he is waiting for me there XXXXX that gloomy cave of his , and some time or other he will get me . ''
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