‘They’ve gone, miss,’ came the answer, muffled through the panel door. Her new husband was pleased to watch the astonished look on her face as tray after tray appeared on the grand table, each better than the next. It would be too mortifying. A moment afterwards, the door was closed and bolted, and the carpenter found himself alone. 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. Taking advantage of his embarrassed position, Jonathan and his assistant rushed upon him, and disarmed him. He depended upon her, for his medicine, for his drink, for the little amusement it was now permissible to give him. ’ She edged sideways a little more, her eyes on the pistol in his hand. It was Sebastian’s fault for slapping her face and letting the baby out. ” Lucy wanted badly to believe her.
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