Why is the door
fastened? Open it directly!"
"Are you alone?" asked Jack, mimicking the voice of Kneebone. "
The young woman laid a finger on her lips, cautioning O'Higgins to silence. ”
Sir John turned towards the door. I see now
that you make a game with me indeed. ”
Her heart had warmed toward him. But, urged by his wife's cries, who was more anxious for the preservation of
her child's life than her own, he snatched up the infant, and made his escape
from the back of the premises. “I’ve brought you up some dinner, Vee,” she said. "
"Sir," said the chief turnkey, indignantly. My husband, he is cruel and wicked, and—and
entirely undistinguished. All this was the work of a minute. Suspicion was in his face. “She has been to my flat
before. "
And springing backwards, he darted suddenly through the door. 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. I pledged my
thumb that, dead or alive, I'd pay the wager if I lost; and I should like to be as
good as my word.
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