” “Not exactly,” he answered nervously. They were his friends, and they recognized his unusual earnestness. His voice had changed, the joy had gone out of it; and she understood that something from the past had rolled up to spoil this hour. McClintock could not browbeat him, storm as he might. Here again the clothes were minus the labels. "I wish merely to come out of this bargain honourably. 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. " "Norris!" gasped Lady Trafford, trembling violently. “Well,” he said slowly, “I had met you three times—before Drummond’s dinner. "In Heaven's name! what's all this?" cried Wood. "If any one's to blame, it's me.
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