“It’s the spring,” he said. The grim mockery of it!—those South Sea loafers, taking
advantage of Enschede's Christianity and imposing upon him, accepting his
money and medicines and laughing behind his back! No doubt they made the
name a byword and a subject for ribald jest in the waterfront bars. Awful shapes seemed to flit by, borne on the wings of the tempest,
animating and directing its fury. Now how in the world was he to get rid of
the husband?
His luck was in. ‘Exactly like my father. You’re just a particular being with
nothing else in the world to class with you. “You have even her name. You could return to civilization and have a good time all the rest of your days. The Dawn Pearl! To be
with her constantly, with no diversions to serve as barricades! Damn McClintock
for putting this thought in his head—that Ruth loved him!
He flung himself upon the beach, face downward, his outflung hands digging
into the sand: which was oddly like his problem—he could not grip it. ‘Gérard!’
Before she could react to this new menace, the captain spun round. Grasping it firmly with both hands, he quickly wrenched if from the
stones in which it was mortised, and leapt to the ground. ’
‘You’re incorrigible,’ scolded Hilary, beginning to follow. This
astute personage was somewhat under the middle size, but fairly proportioned,
inclining rather to strength than symmetry, and abounding more in muscle than
in flesh.
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