"As I said before, I have little reliance upon professions of gratitude. " Ah Cum shrugged. ” “I suppose all men,” said Ann Veronica, in a tone of detached criticism, “get some such entanglement. The lonely widows of robber barons found him irresistible and he was the guest of many a fine table. . Why should they be? She and Ramage were friends, very good friends. Evidently Ah Cum's luck had held good. . The thought allured him, and therein lay the danger. 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. There was a bare chance that he had been mistaken. —"As Rowland's whole crew perished in the tempest, and he only escaped by miracle, he fancied himself free from detection. "You are complimentary, Sir Rowland," returned the other, with a grim smile. He had been frozen in time at age forty-two.
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