82 She was putting a manuscript away, gingerly locking its heavy tooled cover, but it was a huge, awkward tome. 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. She was, she guessed, close to the library. Until then we mean to keep on hammering away. "I've seen him some years ago, I believe," answered Wood; "and, though he must be much changed by this time, I dare say I should know him again. Jolly nice girl, too. ’ ‘Perhaps you don’t, Hilary,’ Gerald said mildly, smiling at the young lady and indicating one of the wide window seats. Spurlock lay with his head on his arms, asleep. \"He's had a crush on you for a while. ’ She grasped the girl’s arm. ‘I know,’ said Prudence Sindlesham, sympathy in her tone.
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