” His eyes were burning. “Let us sit down for a moment,” he had said. 175 “Before you tell me the whole story,” she emphasized the penultimate word, “just let me do something for you. Taber?" "Regained consciousness this morning. Unless he deserts the girl, he won't be so hard to find as formerly. “You must leave me your address if you please,” he said, as she rose to go. A medley of motives warred in her, and it was certainly not one of the least of these that she knew herself to be passionately in love with Capes; at moments she had a giddy intimation that he was beginning to feel keenly interested in her. She was definitely following him. Love … to take her in his arms and to comfort her: and then to add to her cup of bitterness the knowledge that her husband was a thief! For himself he did not care; God could continue to grind and pulverize him; but to add another grain to the evil he had already wrought upon Ruth was unthinkable. Gosse was backing towards the table. 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 knows how to do better nor any surgeon. '" "An ingenious device," laughed Gay. “Has she ever thought of buying a pair of foam earplugs?” Lucy asked. ‘Indeed?’ Gerald grinned.
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