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CHAPTER V
At dinner the spinsters invited Ruth to sit at their table, an invitation she
accepted gratefully. Anna sent her away. From there I plan to travel until I reach
Columbia—but any lawless country will do. "But, if I should not return, take this purse to
Edgeworth Bess. 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. "We shall all be murdered. ”
Mr. . But if he's in bed, how the devil is he going with me, supposing I decide to
hire him? The mudhook comes up to-morrow night.
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