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. Noiselessly, his booted feet stepping with careful restraint, he started forward,
signalling to Roding to follow. She came to
adore them. "Is it a bargain?"
"Take half of my estate—take all—my life, if you will—I am weary of it!" cried
Trenchard passionately. It seemed to
encapsulate the mosquito like a little piece of moonlight,
it was talismanic to her. Her back arched slightly in
response. . “I made two fruit
pies and now I have no one to eat them. "I understand," she said. "Fly, Captain—fly!"
Aroused to a sense of the possibility of escape, Jack, who had viewed the deadly
assault with savage satisfaction, burst from his captors and made for the door. As she talked, the drift and significance of what she was
saying shaped itself slowly to Ann Veronica’s apprehension. "My father!" she whispered. Miss Mary to the life. You never saw him before yesterday. We're told, that 'Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul.
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