He overhears their conversation-the man calls the woman Faustine and the odd-looking man is named Morel. The woman is seen several times with an odd-looking man wearing tennis garb. The man becomes brave and comes out of hiding, sitting near her on the beach. He is drawn to her and begins to have feelings for her. The man notices a young woman who sits on the rocks on the beach everyday at sunset. Fearing that the people are part of a scheme to capture him, the man stays hidden from them.
The same two songs play over and over again. Stunningly, his sanctuary is intruded upon one day when he hears music and sees people dancing near the main building called the Museum.
The man feels safe from capture and is surviving on the rugged island in solitude. He travels over rough seas in a row boat to Villings Island. The man so fears prosecution and false imprisonment that he decides to take the risk. It is so deadly that not even pirates will come ashore. The merchant warns the man that the island has many dangers including a dreadful disease that if contracted promises certain death. The merchant tells him that the island was mysteriously abandoned by its inhabitants after they constructed several large buildings on the land. When the man runs into an Italian rug merchant in Calcutta, he learns of Villings Island. The country that is pursuing him is Venezuela, the place of his birth. It is never revealed what the man is accused of but he claims in his diary that he is innocent. Since there are so many intrinsic dangers on the island, the purpose of his daily log has another purpose: it may be his will. The man writes a diary of his experiences that he will use it as a basis for book if he is able to return to civilization. However, the reader learns that he is a fugitive from justice.
Throughout the story, the man remains unidentified. The story of the novella, "The Invention of Morel" begins with an unnamed man on a rugged island in the middle of the ocean.
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