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. " "Ah!" exclaimed Mrs. ” “I wasn’t jesting,” said Capes, abruptly. Get all ready for his reception. Don’t ask me how. She tiptoed to the stand and gathered up the manuscripts which she carried to a chair by the window. “Can you take any from me?” “No, I won’t do that. ” Her mind went off to Capes. Vexation at his folly in suffering himself to be thus entrapped kept Wood for a short time silent. It was enough that Spurlock had been taken aboard The Tigress. Her father—man of rock—had never needed her, whereas Hoddy, even if he did not love her, would always be needing her. . Later that night, after she had cleaned herself and changed her clothes, he returned.
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