’
‘No, you are a gentleman,’ she agreed. Now, I know you can restore him to his rights, if you choose. But come, sir. 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. “I’d run away with you in a heartbeat. Does it?”
“I think it does. ”
Ann Veronica closed the door quite softly and stood still. But do not awaken my apprehension,
unless you have good cause for so doing. “Thanks, Mister McCloskey. Epithalamy might do. But whither The Tigress was bound or who the owner was lay beyond the reach
of Ah Cum's deductions.
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