" This placard was adorned with a rude wood-cut, representing the unhappy malefactor at the place of execution. The hotel manager was expostulating and Ah Cum was replying by a series of expressive shrugs. The man asked twelve guineas, but after a little bargaining, he came down to ten. "Good-b'ye!" And with a cordial shake of the hand he took his departure. Ruth did not consider it necessary, however, to add that she had not notified this aunt of her coming, that she did not know whether the aunt still resided in Hartford or was underground. “Lucy, that is so sad. 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.
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