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. To be near
someone, even someone who made a pretense of friendliness, to hear voices, her
own intermingling, would serve as a rehabilitating tonic. ’
‘There is no need for this,’ he ventured mildly, and lifted his finger to show his
own pistol was not cocked. Can’t travel alone, a pair of nuns.
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