"Behold you," said he, and
again lifted the lantern over a rock dark with seaweed (and yet the
weed shone in the light)--"Behold you, what you have wrecked."
'On their backs along the flat of the rock lay two naked bodies, of a
youth and a maid, half-clasped one to another. He handed me the
lantern for a better look, and in the rays of it the two wretches
peered forward as if drawn against their will. I cannot well say if
they or I first perceived the miracle; that these corpses, as they
lay in the posture, so bore the very likeness of the two lovers on my
sculptured slab. But I remember that, as John and Grace Magor
screamed back and clung to me, and as by the commotion of them
clutching at my knees the lantern fell and was extinguished, I heard
the young man Luke say, "Yourselves, yourselves!"
'I called to him to pick up the lantern; but he did not answer, and
the two clinging wretches encumbered me. After a long while the
clouds broke and the moon shone through them; and where he had stood
there was no one. Also the slab of rock was dark, and the two
drowned corpses had vanished with him. I pointed to it; but there
was no tinder-box at hand to light the lantern again, and in the
bitter weather until the dawn the two clung about me, confessing and
rehearsing their sins.
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