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to create a mysterious mood
to show the location
to reveal that Rainsford is a hunter
"Off there to the right - somewhere - is a large island,"
said Whitney, "It's rather a mystery-"
"What island is it?" Rainsford asked.
"The old charts call it 'Ship-Trap Island,'' Whitney
replied. "A suggestive name, isn't it? Sailors have a
curious dread of the place. I don't know why. Some
superstition-"
"Can't see it," remarked Rainsford, trying to peer through
the dank tropical night that was palpable as it pressed its
thick warm blackness in upon the yacht.
"You've good eyes," said Whitney, with a laugh, "and I've
seen you pick off a moose moving in the brown fall bush
at four hundred yards, but even you can't see four miles
or so through a moonless Caribbean night."
_"The Most Dangerous Game,"
Richard Connell
to explain what Whitney looks like
O to show the time of day