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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Westward Ho! by Charles Kingsley: the silence of that lonely glen.
A few days afterwards, Sir Richard, on his way from Bideford to
Stow, looked in at Clovelly Court, and mentioned, with a "by the
by," news which made Will Cary leap from his seat almost to the
ceiling. What it was we know already.
"And there is no clue?" asked old Cary; for his son was speechless.
"Only this; I hear that some fellow prowling about the cliffs that
night saw a pinnace running for Lundy."
Will rose, and went hastily out of the room.
In half an hour he and three or four armed servants were on board a
trawling-skiff, and away to Lundy. He did not return for three
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