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. “Are you in a hurry? Will you come in and have some coffee?” He hesitated, and glanced towards her companion. "That's a fine tale," said Spurlock. Even in the daylight, it had a sombre and suspicious air, and seemed to slink back from the adjoining houses, as if afraid of their society. There was a confused impression of livery carriages and whips with white favors, people fussily wanting other people to get in before them, and then the church. " "What gives you that idea?" "Well, we could find no letter of credit, no letters, no labels in his clothes—not a single clew to his real identity. Everything seemed designed to unhinge the mind and make the cat wretched. She slipped past the servants, her soft roe-skin shoes unheard on the old stone. He had a wild impulse to shout. "My sight is failing me. If Jack should die, all though her fault, she could never forgive herself. Her slender throat was encircled by a black riband, with a small locket attached to it; and upon the top of her head rested a diminutive lace cap. . " "You had Spurlock once. This world over here! Everything's upsidedown or back-end-to.
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