. . "You poor child!" Prudence took Ruth's hands in her own. Or, better still, put all my clothes in the trunk. "It's a fine idea, my child, but you mustn't do it. It was at his side below the breast, hidden by the dark colour of his close-fitting jacket. She could think of nothing more to say. The features were indistinct, but was that not a halo of white about it? And the dark shadow below, was that a cloak, or the habit of a nun? Skirting the dancing, from which he had taken a breather—not from lack of energy, but to escape the inanities of the young ladies he had partnered—Gerald made his way to a side door in the saloon and opened it. ’ He made a pretence of rising and making a sortie to the corner to see if anyone was there. But why this part of the plan now seemed to her quite unattractive was a question she did not care to examine too closely. It occurred to Ann Veronica once that she had known him when he was younger, but day had followed day, and each had largely obliterated the impression of its predecessor. " That satisfied something of her undefined hunger. It was not quite the search I intended,’ he said with a touch of selfmockery as he released her, ‘but success comes in all sorts of unexpected ways. ’ ‘Melusine,’ repeated the old lady. How little he knew about Ruth—the background from which she had sprung! He knew that her father was a missioner, that her mother was dead, that she had been born on this island, and that, at the time of his collapse, she had been on the way to an aunt in the States.
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