At present the world waits for that writer, and the confused record of the newspapers remains the only resource of the curious. 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. I never saw a man who wasn't. “No,” she answered, reluctantly. " "That's easily said. The ink, contained in a grimy bottle unearthed in the outhouse, was old, and made blotches as soon as it touched the paper. "They tell me over here that the average Chinaman is honest. Spurlock was basically a poet, quick to recognize beauty, animate or inanimate, and to transcribe it in unuttered words. ” Annabel shivered a little and looked around her. “You can date whomever you wish. "My good friend, Owen Wood,—Heaven preserve him!—is still living. " CHAPTER XX To Spurlock it seemed as if a great iron door had swung in behind him, shutting out the old world. "I swear it," rejoined Jonathan, readily.
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