" "Indeed!" rejoined Sir Rowland, haughtily; "perhaps, you will refresh my memory as to the time, and place. It was easy for him to see that she desired to be agreeable to him. They know only that the Valades have practised an imposture which affects all society, and some will think your adventures excessively romantic. What had she so nearly said? She had almost spoken a name—and quickly withdrawn it. ’ ‘I was called in, ma’am, to catch a French spy—at least, that is what Pottiswick thought. 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. They could not have called it a fatal motor accident if he had not been dead. I want to hammer myself against all this that pens women in. But I've an old friend on the way here, and he knows the game down there. Why did the beggar hang on down there, when he could have enjoyed all that civilization had to offer? Yes, he would be mighty glad to see McClintock; and the sooner he came the better. What need had she of Gerald, or anyone? Yet, if he was here, would he not make some foolish game with her and make her laugh? Instead of behaving in this fashion so stupide, and crying, crying, crying. " "Nay, if you're bent upon this folly," observed Wild, who appeared to have his own reasons for humouring the lad, "I shan't hinder you. " "Do not speak of it," rejoined Thames, with a look of horror.
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