Well, here’s another one for you. You’ll know the light was burning the night before Bill disappeared – the night of the twenty-ninth. The papers made a lot of that at the time, because it means that whatever happened must have happened the next morning, before Jory Martin’s boat went out. It means there was someone there, at least one of them, at least someone, putting the light in and tending it through the night – and it just so happens they vanish right before the relief gets there? I don’t think coincidences like that happen without there being more to it. It makes us think if only that relief had got out there sooner, if only the boatman had gone against the weather, and it just seems extra cruel that way. But that’s what it boils down to: whether you think coincidences exist. Is it just the way the world has of working, or is it something else? For me, it’s clear which one it is.
