’ ‘You mean the one that you refused to feed?’ demanded Gerald, seizing this promising cue and adopting a mournful note. Perceiving he was about to take leave, Kneebone ventured to ask whom he had had the honour of addressing. ‘I cannot possibly shoot a lady, you know. You have darkened your eyebrows, you have even changed your style of dress. As a matter of fact it isn’t their affair. Never had she seemed to him so much like Anna. ” “It is Number 8, Cavendish Square,” she answered simply. During this dreadful pause the wretched man felt for his sword. 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. Her life hangs upon a thread, and this may snap it. All these experiences have taught me a great deal about life and realities. Upon my word—you are Miss Pellissier, aren’t you?” “I certainly am,” she admitted.
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