He had done this a dozen times on the way from his office. 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. And yet that could not be: it was a confession only in the event of his death. The affair passed at one leap from a spree to a nightmare of violence and disgust. His heart was beating, but faintly and slowly, with ominous intermissions. He slapped his knee. He has been lodged in every round-house in the metropolis, and has broken out of them all, and boasts that no prison can hold him. ” Her father’s irony deepened. From one window the beach was always visible; from another, the stores. ” He groaned. Laughed at me, then. They are rather a long way off, but you could write to them. Only promise me to amend—to quit your vile companions—and I will forgive you—will bless you. The brilliant sunshine poured through the window, effecting an oblong block of mote-swimming light. "This gash," he added, pointing to one of the larger scars, "was a wipe from the hanger of Tom Thurland, whom I apprehended for the murder of Mrs.
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