`` looks like a hit of some sort , '' evans said . a bum rolled over on a pillow of newspapers so he could watch from beneath the torn brim of his straw hat as the waves rolled onto the beach . they approached a group of low hills and , as they passed through them , bright lights of a small city appeared out of nowhere . but then she stopped , for although his suggestion was odd , so was everything that had happened to her since she found herself in a body . 