He was in the house with his mother. The more haste, the worse speed—better the feet slip than the tongue. “You will pardon me, sir,” he said in a subdued tone, “but I think that you have forgotten to look at your engagement book. "So I perceive," replied Jack. “Did she? I’m sorry, Mike. 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. Poor soul! she nearly died when she heard he had robbed his master; and it might have been well if she had done so, for she never afterwards recovered her reason. Two children, who had been caught in the jam-closet: ingratiating smiles, back of which lay doubt and fear. But on arriving in the tattered saloon where he and Melusine had hidden, a shock awaited Gerald.
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