‘No, I don’t see much future in pursuing her down this passage. He was in trouble and she could not help him; that was the ache in her heart. 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. "If you've a fancy for the girl, we might do it. Hitherto she had seen it chiefly in pictures and other works of art, incidentally, and as a thing taken out of life. Age is set, impervious to innovations. You have taken my dagger. All at once Melusine remembered Pottiswick, and the errand he had run. "Is this Jack Sheppard? Oh, la! I'm undone! We shall all have our throats cut! Oh! oh!" And she rushed, screaming, into the passage where she fell down in a fit.
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