Spurlock discussed the affairs of the island and Ruth gave him in exchange her adventures with the native girl who was to be their servant. She was shocked. "Has Jack displeased you? If so, overlook his fault this once. 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. So often as she had herself manipulated a dagger, she could not mistake the shape that pressured across her chest, or the sharp point that dug below her bosom. ’” “Is ‘Alcide’ still in Paris?” Ennison asked. I made Hainault’s acquaintance, stood him drinks, lent him money. Ann Veronica thought the whole affair rather jolly.
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