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. ’ The snaking suspicion rolled through his mind again. “This is a very foolish sort of entertainment. “Hey,” he said, his eyes slowly adjusting to the soft blackness. The door to the library burst open. “Annabel?” he exclaimed. But what affair is this of yours?’ But Captain Roding was not attending. Then she examined with curiosity some knick-knacks upon a small round table by her side. ’ Melusine heard a note of triumph in his voice and turned, a questioning look in her face. The Yale spirit! James Boyle O'Higgins was, as the saying goes, somewhat out of luck. But with returning breath came returning vociferations; and the carpenter, with a faint hope of lessening the clamour by change of scene, took up his lantern, opened the door, and walked out.
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