” “I’m so glad. Quite trying of him not to be there when he is wanted. ’ ‘But it’s my affair, Melusine. Melusine glanced towards the elderly dame and found that sharp gaze directed upon her. "Here, take this and get the letter and open and read it. ” “There is no one else who has a key to your rooms?” “No one except my maid, who is away in Wiltshire. 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. Michelle helped her mother clear the table and Lucy thanked her for the meal. McClintock's was a plantation of ten thousand palms, yielding him annually about half a million nuts.
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