A single glance served to show the thief-taker how matters stood. 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. She pocketed the sum total of his ready cash, about fortyeight dollars. He is extremely old—forty at least—and he has a belly excessively fat. This, then, was the woman from whom Hoddy would not have accepted a cup of water. He lost control of the machine. I’ve got nothing to do for a month but think. “I hope,” said Miss Stanley, with dignity, and turned doorward with features in civil warfare. ‘En tout cas, it is not reasonable that I could be at all in love with him.
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