"Why came
she here?"
"She could not resist the hand of fate which drew her hither," replied Sir Cecil,
mournfully. \"Would you
like some orange juice?\" Larry had already been working
outside for an hour, Mike at his side, dragging grass
clippings to the compost pile. "I would
treat him as you treated his father, Sir Rowland. Where
can I have heard it!"
"Devil knows," rejoined Blueskin. Wood set off at full speed
from the Mint, and, hurrying he scarce knew whither (for there was such a
continual buzzing in his ears and dancing in his eyes, as almost to take away the
power of reflection), he held on at a brisk pace till his strength completely failed
him. That'll tune me up. If they entered a shop, he paused by the doorway, as if waiting for the
journey to be resumed. Everything
in the world had changed for her. ”
The detective turned again to Anna. 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. . “But that’s quite different,” replied Anna.
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