Anna looked at her curiously, and with sinking heart. The oblique ruddy lighting distorted them oddly, made queer bars and patches of shadow upon their clothes. 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. Stanley took the letter and stood with it in his hand thoughtfully for a time. Consternation gripped him. " Jack could stand no more. For Melusine was on him again, the point of her sword lunging so that he backed up onto the dais. "She tells me there was a Kanaka cook; been in the family as long as she can remember. ‘I have an excellent excuse to remain comfortably ensconced in my parlour here, able to indulge in my favourite pastime. She—She can snub him. ” “But it may matter very much indeed,” Anna declared. Then, even as they stood there, the room was plunged into darkness.
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