And see!" he added, as the figures drew back,
and the lights disappeared; "it's a false alarm. “This is wonderful! I’ve been feeling
that you had vanished from my world. “I suppose,” said her father, “I have read at least half the novels that have been
at all successful during the last twenty years. 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. Lucy slept in the same room as Shari,
only ten feet away. The air was
sweet with the smoky perfume of myrrh, hazy and dense
with incense. ”
“Are you a detective or a doctor?” she asked calmly. CHAPTER XXVIII. They were drenched with water
and suds. "What is this!" cried Sir Rowland.
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