CHAPTER TWO 



The Innkeeper and 

 His Wife 



THE BOY WALKED along the wharf to where a rough track 

 led to the waterfront. He noticed that the walls of the 

 houses were mostly constructed of logs and that in 

 practically every case there was at the summit of the 

 thatched roof a sort of balcony, the reason for which he 

 was to discover later. 



Coming to a house bearing a small sign on which was a 

 picture of a spouting whale and the inscription, Black 

 Whale Inne, he stopped and looked around towards the 

 wharf He seemed to be the only one of the survivors 



