CHAPTER I. ” He saw her into the train at Waterloo, and stood, a tall, grave figure, with hat upraised, as the carriage moved forward slowly and hid him. A South Sea island girl, and this was her first adventure into civilization. ” She stopped abruptly, and turned about toward the front door. She was thinking fast now, all her senses on the alert. I’ve had a lot on my mind. ” “She does it magnificently,” he declared. The odour of kerosene permeated the bungalow; but Ruth mitigated the nuisance to some extent by burning native punk in brass jars. The address was of course her destination, thousands of miles away, an infinitesimal spot in a terrifying space. To make Ruth pay for it! He wanted to get away, into some immense echoless tract where he could give vent to this wild laughter which tore at his vitals. " "Possibly not," replied Thames, in some confusion; "but I am not at liberty to speak. For a time she promenaded the room. His bodily suffering, however, was nothing compared with his mental anguish. Ann Veronica was much impressed by a mighty trying on and altering and fussing about Alice’s “things”—Alice was being re-costumed from garret to cellar, with a walking-dress and walking-boots to measure, and a bride’s costume of the most ravishing description, and stockings and such like beyond the dreams of avarice—and a constant and increasing dripping into the house of irrelevant remarkable objects, such as— Real lace bedspread; Gilt travelling clock; Ornamental pewter plaque; Salad bowl (silver mounted) and servers; Madgett’s “English Poets” (twelve volumes), bound purple morocco; Etc.
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