‘Nothing would do for her but to come here,’ grumbled Hilary, wiping his heated brow with a pocket handkerchief dragged from his immaculate white uniform breeches. The young lady with frizzled hair, whom Brendon had pointed out to her as Miss Ellicot, leaned forward from her hostess’s side. Wood and Thames taking their places on either side of it, and Jack at a little distance behind. ‘She? Sa femme? That is the game then? That she could dare to take my place, that salope. 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. Strangers look in and long, and neighbours are moved to envy. "What is this!" cried Sir Rowland. Or did he? Perhaps he had found another. Covering his face with a crape mask, and taking the candle from his associate, Jack entered the room; and, pistol in hand, stepped up to the bed, and approached the light to the eyes of the sleepers. He, for his part, was trying to grasp the series of unexpected reactions that had so wrecked their tete-a-tete. ‘That’s why I never told Joan Ibstock that you were still with me when I wrote. Brendon’s guests,” she said, “and I scarcely think it would be nice of me to leave him alone with Sydney. "Yes," replied Jack.
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