The Man Who Laughs Part I, Book the Second, Chapter VI - They Think that Help is at Hand

In which the restless sea, in all its contradictory splendour and tempestuous tumult, becomes a silent witness to the quiet and watchful meditation of a solitary doctor. As night descends and the small vessel races away before the favouring wind, a child's lingering gaze marks a poignant division between two destinies, both lost now in the enveloping darkness.