BOOK OF THE DAMNED 235 



A vast throng of persons ran to the quay for refuge. The city 

 of Lisbon was in profound darkness. The quay and all the people 

 on it disappeared. If it and they went down not a single corpse, 

 not a shred of clothing, not a plank of the quay, nor so much as a 

 splinter of it ever floated to the surface. 



