Wood," she continued, with a sudden
change of tone, and convulsively clutching the carpenter's arm, "promise it me. She noted the dank hair on his forehead, the sweat of
revolting nature. 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. It’s
a sort of blacklegging to want to have a life of one’s own. From the first I
could see that neither believed my story. ”
She thought of her father, and with an effort dismissed him from her mind. The spinster saw herself growing warm again in the morning sunshine of youth
—a flaring ember before the hearth grew cold. She had heard the trader utter it many
times. This, then, was
the cause of the widow's wild inexplicable look,—of her sudden shriek!
Explaining his suspicious in a whisper to Jack's captor, who proved to be a
church-warden and a constable, by name John Dump,—Mr. Mr. Anna was no favourite at No. ‘But I do not pay
this penalty. But why this part of the plan now
seemed to her quite unattractive was a question she did not care to examine too
closely. She read the policeman’s
rueful glance when she caught his refection in his
rearview mirror.
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