This girl was strong and
vital: how would she take it when she learned that she had cast her lot with a
fugitive from justice? For McClintock was certain that Spurlock was a hunted
man. You’re a
lady. She tossed her
head, and, having no further words, moved toward the door. Don’t you know I disinherited the rogue?’
‘This we knew, milor’,’ said Valade. ’
The girl held out her hands. 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. ’
Amusement flickered in Gerald’s breast. All three, then, burst into an immoderate fit of laughter. "But you've done well to
trust me. He passed but a cursory glance over the formal certificate that identified the
Frenchman before him as one André Valade, distant cousin to the Vicomte
Valade. But eventually Spurlock laughed.
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