“There’s endless reasons, no doubt, why we shouldn’t,” he said. But the indecision, which had been fatal to his race, was fatal to him. It is not possible for us to be on friendly terms with a young man who has been seen in a public place, having supper alone with your sister after midnight. ’ Gerald cast a swift look up the corridor, but there was no one there, not even a shadow. 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. It was a clear, lovely, October morning. No; the future was not so dark; there was a bit of dawn visible. ” It was significant of her influence over him that he answered her calmly, although a storm of angry thoughts were struggling for expression within him. The next morning came a compact letter from her father. “But—your people!” she gasped. " CHAPTER XIII. Knowledge was sacred in Athens, knowledge and his twin, Art.
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