" "Be handy, then," rejoined Terence, "or, I'll lose my share of the smart money. “Ding-dong-Diedermayer is here, Lucy. His kisses drew deeper, he started unlacing her dress. But we waste time. 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. ‘Oh my God,’ uttered Gerald in some dismay. Kneebone, or, as he would have preferred being styled, Captain Kneebone, was not perfectly satisfied with the recommendations forwarded by the applicants. " "What do you mean, Sir?" asked Trenchard. The unknown, previously so attractive, now presented another face—blank. ‘You did not find Gosse, that is seen, but—’ ‘Gosse? Gosse? Who’s this here Gosse then?’ ‘He is the Frenchman of whom I told you. Opening the trap-door, he then descended to the vaults —searched each cell, and every nook and corner separately.
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