Jack turned away with an aching heart. 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. He tore it down just as the Wastrel rose, wavering slightly. " "True, and I shan't be easy till my turn arrives. Her father had smiles ready for her, he seemed to be truly happy with her for the first time since her infancy. Everything, Miss Miniver said, was “working up,” everything was “coming on”—the Higher Thought, the Simple Life, Socialism, Humanitarianism, it was all the same really. What he intended to do with it is of little consequence now. “I am afraid,” he said to Anna afterwards, “that it was a mistake to order the champagne sec. A remittance man. He had barely settled at his desk in his library, when he was disturbed by two morning callers. "So long as it is open and above board. From there I plan to travel until I reach Columbia—but any lawless country will do. What happened? Did you turn me?” “Yes, my love. He himself, middle-aged, steeped in traditions of the City and moneymaking, very ill-skilled in all the lighter graces of life, as he himself well knew, could yet come to her invested with something of the halo of romance by the almost magical powers of an unlimited banking account. He sat back in an easy chair with a hand upon each of the elbows, and looked steadfastly into the fire.
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