In a sense I
don’t care. Wherever I saw him, I should pick him out as a man
designed by nature to plan and accomplish the wonderful escapes he has
effected. There were probably others buried around the
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house, she had seen a suspicious working refrigerator in
the back of the garage mess, but she wasn’t about to
check it out. What was it in her heart or mind or soul that went out to this man?
Music—was that it? Was he powerless to stir her without the gift?
But hadn't he fascinated her by his talk, gentle and winning? Ah,
but that had been after he had played for her. "Hold hard," cried he,
addressing the waterman; "I'll give the gentleman a lift. Giles!
"Devil seize the woman!" growled the singer, as he brought his ditty to a close;
"will nothing tempt her out? Widow Sheppard, I say," he added, rising, "don't be
afraid. Still he had a decent look,
and decidedly the air of one well-to-do in the world. Suddenly the door of the flat opened and
closed. 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. “Most of it is ugly and frowsy,” she declared, “but it isn’t worth talking about. ”
Ennison at once seated himself.
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