She propped a pillow against his padded headboard and sat herself into a stiff upright position, legs expertly crossed. She laid her hand upon his arm. This whole affair is truly my fault. ‘Am I right in supposing you to have been a sister to the late Mr Jarvis Remenham?’ ‘Quite right. . Blue haze had settled beyond the black silhouettes of trees, graduating to the deep violet that began the night sky. Where was the expected message from this captain, who had promised to send her word at the instant Gerald returned to town. How little he knew about Ruth—the background from which she had sprung! He knew that her father was a missioner, that her mother was dead, that she had been born on this island, and that, at the time of his collapse, she had been on the way to an aunt in the States. Jack had well-nigh fallen too. “Why not? Isn’t the whole thing a lie? Isn’t her reputation, this husband of hers, the ‘Alcide’ business, isn’t it all a cursed juggle? She hasn’t the right to do it. Notwithstanding the heat of the season,—which was not, however, found particularly inconvenient in this subterranean region,—a large heaped-up fire blazed ruddily in one corner, and lighted up a circle of as villanous countenances as ever flame shone upon. Nothing is wrong that you do.
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