There was a murmur or two among the watchers on the bench, but no one ventured to intervene again. It probably still wouldn’t help. 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. . He ran back to his car, glancing only once at the man in the car. It's mighty lonesome down there for a man bred to cities. ‘Soi-disant? Then he is not Valade?’ ‘How can I know?’ she countered crossly. ’ ‘Fancy my old pa thinking you was a French spy. ToC About an hour after this, Jack ventured to emerge from his place of concealment. .
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