...took hokd of us so that we immediately turned ti o go back to shore. We were on the beach, a very crowdee d d but orderly one. Line upon line of beach towels were set out, along wjth imi h the i ordinary paraphernalia one takes for a day at the beach, all set out in rows perpenduculae r r to the l ic i water's edge. There was a sense of foreboding in the air, of imminent doom. I thought about