The man nearest read the glass. The sobering effect showed plainly on his face.
"It's dropped ten," was all he said, yet every face went anxious, and there was a look as if every man desired immediately to start for the door.
"Listen!" Parlay commanded.
In the silence the outer surf seemed to have become unusually loud. There was a great rumbling roar.
"A big sea is beginning to set," some one said; and there was a movement to the windows, where all gathered.
Through the sparse cocoanuts they gazed seaward. An orderly succession of huge smooth seas was rolling down upon the coral shore. For some minutes they gazed on the strange sight and talked in low voices, and in those few minutes it was manifest to all that the waves were increasing in size. It was uncanny, this rising sea in a d
