"Thames Darrell only waits
my mandate to follow him. ’
‘Then do it,’ Melusine said with impatience. ” Lucy replied. "
"And partly what else?"
"I shall never tell anybody that. 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. The
church was crowded to excess by the numbers eager to witness the ceremony;
and as soon as it was over the wedded pair were followed to the carriage, and the
loudest benedictions uttered for their happiness. But
it seemed that their presence was not even suspected. ”
She replied with a rehearsed answer, “I was told that
my real mother died the day I was born.
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