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. “You are so sweet, Lucy. Then she spoke, with a carelessness he instantly suspected. Ah! I have it," he added, after a moment's deliberation; "he's there, I'll be sworn. Kneebone's habitation, the shutters of which were closed, and knocked at the door. “How did you hear that?” Lucy’s brows knitted. “But a boy—a boy goes out into the world and presently stands on his own feet. Profligate women are never reclaimed. " "How do you manage that, Mr. ‘But how did she meet such a person in a convent?’ ‘He was wounded and came there for sanctuary,’ Gerald explained, adding almost through his teeth. ” “As one friend to another. The winters were terrible in cold climates, and she often had been driven to dig herself large underground pits where she waited it out like a mole in the cold months. But two weeks later he returned. ” “Where?” Courtlaw asked quickly.
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