I N A G U A 



the very moment they reached the edge of the chff a ray of 

 sunhght caught their scales and transformed them into an 

 array of gleaming motes. It was as though an army em- 

 blazoned in gold were marching into the sea. For a brief 

 second I saw them; and then a cloud passed over the sun, 

 drowning my world in even more melancholy blue. 



