"No, no," rejoined Thames; "fly—or I will not answer for your safety. I don’t see any good in life if it hasn’t got you in it. I know what I am talking about. CHAPTER XXIII Next morning Ruth did not refer to the episode on the sands of the lagoon. The grim mockery of it!—those South Sea loafers, taking advantage of Enschede's Christianity and imposing upon him, accepting his money and medicines and laughing behind his back! No doubt they made the name a byword and a subject for ribald jest in the waterfront bars. "Because she's a fire-opal, and to the world at large they bring bad luck. Perhaps it had been pick-pocketed or jostled from her dress in a hunt. The sound of their strident voices floated upwards, the high nasal note of the predominant Americans, the shrill laughter of girls quick to appreciate the wit of such of their male companions as thought it worth while to be amusing. No doubt she was wondering what he had done in Charvill’s house and what he intended now. . ” She seated herself in a loose and easy attitude and surveyed the backs of the Avenue houses; then her eyes wandered to where the new red-and-white villas peeped among the trees.
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