The Golden Age of Weird Fiction MEGAPACK™, Vol. 1: Henry S. Whitehead
Page 37
by Henry S. Whitehead
And when old Pound, shaking now to his very marrow, cold with the horror of this dreadful portent there on the deck warm with the pulsing breath of the trade wind, had recovered himself sufficiently to look again towards the place where the master of the Saul Taverner had struggled with him there against the railing, that place stood empty and no trace of Luke Martin so much as ruffled the phosphorescent surface of the Saul Taverner’s creaming wake.