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 am coming to the point, Joan. "
"Ha!" ejaculated Trenchard. Sheppard raised her eyes, and fixed them upon her interrogator. ”
“Upon my word,” he declared, “you are right. Mrs. “You must pack for
me. "Your sister is dead," said he, in a deep whisper. Our ideal had fallen. Something namelessly abhorrent in the eyes of those men…!
She knew what arms were for—to fold and embrace and to hold one tightly; but
why men wished to kiss women was still a profound mystery.
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