” Anna smiled very faintly, and shook her head. No umbrella either, the sky was delightfully overcast. ” “Why not?” she asked quietly. Gerald took Madame’s hand and kissed the fingers with a little more warmth than punctilio demanded. 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. ’ He closed the panel and came slowly out of the little dressing-room, Roding at his heels. No doubt— because he did not understand you—he thought you had run away with someone. Stonily he had disengaged himself. “Miserable bounder,” he murmured. Had she said the words aloud? He pulled her close and she nuzzled her head on his chest. “La belle ‘Alcide,’ wasn’t it? Annabel Pellissier was her real name. Things happen out this way.
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