” He looked at her pleadingly. At the back of her mind, dim and yet disconcerting, was the perception that she herself did not know what she wanted. There was a lot of that, John, a great deal of hunger. Then he slapped his hand on his desk and looked up with the air of a man struck by a brilliant idea. She seemed bursting with the desire to talk, and watching for her opportunity. ‘But I have the pistol,’ Gerald pointed out. Common offences may be decided upon by deputy; but outrages perpetrated by men of rank, as these appear to be, must be judged by the Master of the Mint in person. Sheppard, and regarding her with an insolent and threatening glance. 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. " "Do not speak of it," rejoined Thames, with a look of horror.
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