 The protagonist observes from a distance with glee as Claverhouse lights a stick of dynamite and throws it into the water.Bellona, trained to retrieve, fetches the explosive.Claverhouse runs from the dog in futility until "just as she caught up, he in full stride, and she leaping with nose at his knee, there was a sudden flash, a burst of smoke, a terrific detonation, and where man and dog had been the instant before there was naught to be seen but a big hole in the ground."