CHAPTER XIV Ruth lost the point entirely. " "Humph!" ejaculated the carpenter. 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. " "Thank'ee,—thank'ee. Jack's first object was to seek out Blueskin, whom he had no doubt he should find at the New Mint, at Wapping, for the Old Mint no longer afforded a secure retreat to the robber; and, with this view, he made the best of his way along a bye-lane leading towards Hockley-in-the-Hole. I take the life out of men. And as these things should always be treated as matters of business, I'll just draw up a memorandum of our arrangement. ’ The fury welled. “They might do you good,” she remarked. Youth finds it pleasant sometimes to be melancholy. But she was disappointed. “Yes, I have heard of him, and I know him by sight,” he admitted. She made up her mind in the train home that it should be a decisive crisis. Now, no more questions, or I shall be forced to leave the room. “You knew it,” he added, in her momentary silence.
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