" "Well," said Ah Cum, amiably, "when I argued against the venture, he threatened to go wandering about alone, I was most concerned in bringing him back unhurt. . Such was the simple code that displayed itself in all his thoughts. Just one thing more. It was like the grin of a fiend, and made my flesh creep on my bones. “Idiots!” she said, when she heard this pandemonium, and with particular reference to this young lady with the throaty contralto next door. “I didn’t know you objected to him, daddy. . Why do you look so sad?” She opened her eyes wider and stifled her emotions. “But why, Lucy? Who is it 145 that you are trying to hide from? John?” Lucy closed her eyes in earnest. He sounds to me like a soldier of fortune. He dashed against the screen door before she could catch him and made the veranda. 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 length, after he had given up the point from sheer exhaustion, the Amazon seized him by the throat, and pushed him backwards with such force that he rolled over the counter. Her fingers opened and the weapon fell from her nerveless grasp.
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