All the turnkeys rose to salute the thief-taker, whose habitually-sullen countenance looked gloomier than usual. “Hello, Gwen!” said Ann Veronica, trying to put every one at their ease. 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 lover surely did not 223 understand the implications of what he had asked for and his lust blinded him to the realities of existence even now. It took all my self control not to let my hands wander. ’ ‘Now then, missie,’ began the sergeant severely, ‘just you hand over that dagger. He turned his eyes and stared at Miss Garvice like one who wakes from a reverie, and then got up and strolled down the laboratory toward his refuge, the preparation-room.
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