They were loath to admit to the public that the case would be closed in a few years for sheer lack of forensic evidence. "An audience might have frightened the birds. It was a grand life. The poor child! What frightful things she must have seen on that island of hers! The noise of crashing glass caused a diversion; and Ruth turned gratefully toward the sound. ’ ‘Alone, miss?’ ‘Certainly alone. The papers are continually wondering what has become of ‘Alcide. “Idiot!” She raged inwardly while she walked along with that air of self-contained serenity that is proper to a young lady of nearly two-and-twenty under the eye of the world. Bullding is going to. After all, she found herself reflecting, behind her aunt’s complacent visage there was a past as lurid as any one’s—not, of course, her aunt’s own personal past, which was apparently just that curate and almost incredibly jejune, but an ancestral past with all sorts of scandalous things in it: fire and slaughterings, exogamy, marriage by capture, corroborees, cannibalism! Ancestresses with perhaps dim anticipatory likenesses to her aunt, their hair less neatly done, no doubt, their manners and gestures as yet undisciplined, but still ancestresses in the direct line, must have danced through a brief and stirring life in the woady buff. No one could take the place for anything but what it was, and even Gosse hesitated in the doorway. I'm about to ring for supper.
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