‘But how did she meet such a person in a convent?’ ‘He was wounded and came there for sanctuary,’ Gerald explained, adding almost through his teeth. “I feared we might have a fog. E. Then we find out. Drink, and no sustaining food. You're not afraid, Mr. net Title: The Ragged Edge Author: Harold MacGrath Release Date: April 13, 2005 [EBook #15614] Language: English *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE RAGGED EDGE *** Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Clare Elliott and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. 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. . On this second excursion, forewarned, she would use no light and keep as quiet as a mouse, she vowed, and thus refrain from attracting the attention of the militia at the gates. “I had a faint idea once that things were as you say they are, but the affair of the ring—of the unexpected ring—puzzled me. Canton is all China at night. Sheppard. You denied it, remembering that I had called myself Anna. ’ ‘Nothing of the sort,’ Gerald said calmly, sipping at his burgundy.
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