But he promised to give me a couple of guineas if I'd ascertain
whether it fitted your locks. "
"That's but a short distance from here, sir. “Please go and see that—nothing happens,” she pleaded. "
"Well, Sir, I must say you deserve some credit for your ingenuity, at all events,"
replied Jonathan, repressing a smile; "but, before you put out your foot so far, it
would have been quite as prudent to consider how you were to draw it back
again. "Winifred Wood will never
marry, unless the grave can give up its dead. "
"I'll give you something better worth keeping," she answered, detaching the
ornament from her neck, and presenting it to him; "this contains a lock of my
hair, and may remind you sometimes of your little sister. Of this I'm certain,
however, she was much too good for him, and was never meant to be a
journeyman carpenter's wife, still less what is she now. "
"Awake!—to be sure I am, my flash cove," replied Sheppard; "I'm down as a
hammer. ‘Knowed it the instant I
set eyes on her. 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. “I missed the hour of your release,” he said, “but I was at the Vindicator
Restaurant. I figured it
would hurt your feelings if you knew I still talked to him,
so I kept my mouth shut. “Lucy, that is so sad. "When you're
older, you'll know that secrets of importance are not disclosed gratuitously.
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