The words in these introductory pages connected themselves with the succeeding vignettes , and gave significance to the rock standing up alone in a sea of billow and spray ; to the broken boat stranded on a desolate coast ; to the cold and ghastly moon glancingglancethrough bars of cloud at a wreck just sinkingsink.
The _ Lusitania _ had been struckstrikeby two torpedoes in succession and was sinkingsinkrapidly , while the boats were being launchedlaunchwith all possible speed .
A third Indian , mortally wounded , was sinkingsinkat the feet of a man whose back was towards me .
Heaven knows whether he is living or dead , but it is impressed upon my mind that he still lives , it may be in misery , it may be as a criminal , while I , his unhappy father , live on in luxury which I can not enjoy , with no one to care for me ---- " Florence Linden sanksinkimpulsively on her knees beside her uncle 's chair .
The dyingdieIndian sanksinkto his knees , pointedpointto the dagger in Herncastle ’s hand , and saidsay, in his native language -- “ The Moonstone will have its vengeance yet on you and yours ! ”
And at last , in its curved and imperceptible fallfall, the sun sanksinklow , and from glowing white changedchangeto a dull red without rays and without heat , as if about to go out suddenly , stricken to death by the touch of that gloom brooding over a crowd of men .