’ ‘Then why,’ demanded Melusine, ‘did you do it?’ Gerald closed his eyes. And if you dare to produce any kind of weapon at all,’ he added, taking a plain brass-barrelled little pistol from his own pocket and levelling it, ‘I will have no compunction in blowing off your head, you madcap female. ’ Kimble’s widening gaze told its own tale, but still he kept his fingers on the handle of the door. The ribald demons that infested the back of Ann Veronica’s mind urged various facetious interrogations upon her, as, for example, where the witness had acquired his prose style. A few feet away, across the low vases of pink and white roses, sat Annabel, more beautiful to-night perhaps than ever before in her life. 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. For a short time they allowed me to share the warmth of their lives. But he would make it a point not to speak again to the girl. When she came to herself, she found that her brother had quitted the room, leaving her to the care of a female attendant. “But who’s going to pay for the room?” “I’ve got money,” said Ann Veronica. "You are arrested for high treason," rejoined Wild, presenting a pistol at his head, while he drew forth a parchment,—"here is my warrant. My boys buy them with beads or bolts of calico of mine. Stanley, “I am anxious.
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