The stranger eyed her severely as she stepped on the rocks . `` I should think you would have more sense than to risk your life in that fashion for a handful of seaweeds , '' he said . `` I have n't the faintest idea what you mean , '' said Miss Rangely . `` You do n't look crazy , but you talk as if you were . '' `` Do you mean to say you do n't know that what the people hereabouts call the Bottomless Pit is situated right off that point -- the most dangerous spot along the whole coast ? '' `` No , I did n't , '' said Katherine , horrified . She remembered now that Aunt Elizabeth had warned her to be careful of some bad hole along shore , but she had not been paying much attention and had supposed it to be in quite another direction . `` I am a stranger here . '' `` Well , I hardly thought you 'd be foolish enough to be out there if you knew , '' said the other in mollified accents . `` The place ought not to be left without warning , anyhow . It is the most careless thing I ever heard of . There is a big hole right off that point and nobody has ever been able to find the bottom of it . A person who got into it would never be heard of again . The rocks there form an eddy that sucks everything right down . '' `` I am very grateful to you for calling me in , '' said Katherine humbly . `` I had no idea I was in such danger . '' `` You have a very fine bunch of seaweeds , I see , '' said the unknown . But Katherine was in no mood to converse on seaweeds . She suddenly realized what she must look like -- bare feet , draggled skirts , dripping arms . And this creature whom she had taken for a lunatic was undoubtedly a gentleman .
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