”
“Why?”
“If I were bad at it, you would be on your way to the
hospital by now. To be free of outward distraction, he
shut his eyes and concentrated upon the scraps she had given him; and shortly,
with his eyes still closed, he began to describe Ruth's island: the mountain at one
end, with the ever-recurring scarves of mist drifting across the lava-scarred face;
the jungle at the foot of it; the dazzling border of white sand; the sprawling store
of the trader and the rotting wharf, sundrily patched with drift-wood; the native
huts on the sandy floor of the palm groves; the scattered sandalwood and ebony;
the screaming parakeets in the plantains; the fishing proas; the mission with its
white washed walls and barren frontage; the lagoon, fringed with coco palms,
now ruffled emerald, now placid sapphire. "Your hesitation convinces me he does," replied the widow. "I haven't offended you?"—not contritely but curiously. Her heavy pistol
came up again, although she did not rise. "Austin will stare," thought Jack, "when he comes here in the morning.
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