The Hildebrand Rarity

January, 1989

The Hildebrand RarityThe Sting Ray was about six feet from wing tip to wing tip and perhaps ten feet long from the blunt wedge of its nose to the end of its deadly tail. It was dark gray with that violet tinge that is so often a danger signal in the underwater world. When it rose up from the pale, golden sand and swam, it was as if a black towel were being waved through the water.It was ten o'clock in the morning of a day in April and the lagoon, Belle Anse, near the southernmost tip of Mahé, th...