CHAPTER V At dinner the spinsters invited Ruth to sit at their table, an invitation she accepted gratefully. Now, I know you can restore him to his rights, if you choose. Rain started to pummel the roof of the pavilion, which coalesced into sheets and rumbled to the cement below. "I took the course I pursued to serve you. This is my first venture over here. There was a gulf of eight years between her and the youngest of her brace of sisters—an impassable gulf inhabited chaotically by two noisy brothers. You intrigue me. His own heart was too full of melancholy foreboding. "You needn't gag me," he added, "I'll not cry out. ‘Trespasses,’ supplied Gerald. "I should as soon have expected the bones of Tom Sheppard to reunite themselves and walk out of that case, as Thames Darrell to return. 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. I am a pauper, and as yet I have not discovered how to earn money. And yet the secondary emotion was one of suspicion. All that he had sown that afternoon with such infinite care was as nothing compared to this seed, cast without forethought.
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