“A very clear statement, madam,” he said. Sheppard's ward, Sir. " "I am sorry. But was that enough? Dim, formless suspicions of something more vital wandered about his mind. 148 “Sure. ” He was silent for some moments. “Friendships that are all very well between school-girls don’t always go on into later life. 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. Chapter XXIII MONTAGUE HILL SEES LIGHT AT LAST At exactly ten minutes past ten Annabel rang the bell of her sister’s flat. “Can you come out tonight?” “Um, sure, I guess. He did not want Ruth to see his own stricken countenance; nor did he care to see hers, ravaged by tears. Understand me.
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