Excerpt from The Happy Medium and Other Stories

A Heavy mist was rolling in from the sea when Darnell set out from Porthia to walk across country to Porthlew, on the other coast, where he proposed to spend the remaining fortnight of his holiday. He had chosen his route in order to examine certain prehistoric survivals, the Men Scryfa or "Written Stone" and the Mên an Tol or "Stone with a Hole" which, together with cromlechs, monoliths, stone circles and hut dwellings, punctuate the moors of West Cornwall and translate their mysterious atmosphere into more concrete symbols. Almost at the outset of his walk Darnell found white heather, and armed with this emblem of good-luck, his map and the directions which had been given him in Porthia, he never doubted that he should find the objects that appealed so strongly to his imagination.

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