She had been warned time and time again by Sebastian that fame would mean the end of her freedom, being hounded in to the next lifetime by vampire and power seekers. It dropped sideways and fell with a bang to the table. "Yes, Auntie! And to date you have cost me precisely sixteen thousand dollars— hard earned, every one of them. Unless—’ Something clicked in his mind and he stared at his friend without seeing him. ” Brendon went very pale. ” “Well?” “Sir John came to me—that you know—and you can guess what I told him. But I mustn't think of these things, or I shall grow mad. Wood, and you'll find that I've spoken the truth. 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.
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