He then looked around him
with some curiosity; and, as the thief-taker was occupied in giving directions to
his attendant in an undertone, ample leisure was allowed him for investigation. "
"At least state your charge. \"You're so strong. “I should like to understand you,” he said. Against the walls hung an assortment of staves,
brown-bills, (weapons then borne by the watch,) muskets, handcuffs, great-coats,
and lanterns. ‘No doubt accompanied by the latest crim con tales. Like most officers, he’d had it
especially made, for a man who loved danger had need of a precision instrument
of defence. It seemed to her the last desperate attack upon the universe that would not
let her live as she desired to live, that penned her in and controlled her and
directed her and disapproved of her, the same invincible wrappering, the same
leaden tyranny of a universe that she had vowed to overcome after that
memorable conflict with her father at Morningside Park. There will be
no avoiding it. 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. “Why aren’t you in Orchestra, Lucy?”
“I just. The service had not proceeded far, when she was greatly disturbed by the
entrance of a person who placed himself opposite her, and sought to attract her
attention by a number of little arts, surveying her, as he did so, with a very
impudent and offensive stare. Mr.
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