’ Captain Roding looked frowningly from one to the other. ’ ‘Probably not. I have neither father, mother, brother, sister, nor husband—I have only him. 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 felt he had raised a storm which it would be very difficult, if not impossible, to allay. This hand consigned him to destruction, but another was stretched forth to save him. He saw what he had done only as it related to Ruth. Inside was Anna, leaning a little forward to watch the passers-by, bright-eyed, full to the brim of the insatiable curiosity of youth—the desire to understand and appreciate this new world in which she found herself. Let's get to Hong-Kong, James, and hit the high spots while there is time. Her eyes were lit with a gleam of humour. . Earles drew out his cheque book. To have the present lengthen into years! But in a few hours she would be upon her way, far lonelier than she had ever been. CHAPTER XXIII Next morning Ruth did not refer to the episode on the sands of the lagoon. The crowner's 'quest sat on her yesterday—and if she hadn't been proved out of her mind, she would have been buried at four lane-ends.
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