CHAPTER XXXII. “I feel shabby and disgraced. However, as things have turned up, it's fortunate that I came back. "I rather fancy, as you Britishers say, that you know the nature of my visit?" "I'm an American. Wild was formerly an agent to the Jacobite party, but, on the offer of a bribe from the opposite faction, he unhesitatingly deserted and betrayed his old employers. “Really, Vee, you seem to have advertised our relations pretty generally!” “They—they knew, of course. Permit me to make him known to you—Mr. Not since she had discovered it had Ruth touched or opened the mission Bible; but to-night (the same upon which the wonderful manuscripts started on their long and circuitous voyage to America) she was inexplicably drawn to it. “You killed them, didn’t you?” He said. I would sooner see you in a ’bus again. "Because it's not like you," was her answer. 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. At the sound of the door Ann Veronica uncovered a tearless face, and with one swift movement assumed a conversational attitude. He thought, too, of the fretful invalid who lay in the next room to his, whose money had created his business and made his position in the world.
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