‘I’ve eyes in my head, haven’t I?’ He grunted. Lost ground must be regained. " "Is the sloop ready to sail?" asked Wild, without noticing the skipper's remark. 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 couldn't go on!" "You'll need something more than courage now. "You didn't spend it?" "I never intended to spend it—any more than I really intended to steal it. In a few minutes more he had made a breach in the roof wide enough to allow him to pass through.
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