” Capes suddenly abandoned his attitude of meditative restraint. His feet would have the firm texture of his hands. “I shall send for a policeman,” Anna said, “directly my maid answers the bell— unless you choose to go before. 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. As she went on, the story began to sound more and more like a recitation. Here, turnkey. “From what you saw from the opposite pavement then, it is certain that some person who was able to move about was in this room only a minute or so before you entered it?” “That is so,” Anna answered. ’ She shook her head sadly. ” Brendon reappeared, followed by a tall thin man with a stubbly brown moustache and restless grey eyes. . ’ ‘Was it?’ Her lips twitched. ” “He is certainly alive,” Anna declared. "Come, come, Jack," said Thames, walking up to Sheppard, and taking his hand, "have done with this. .
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