He had nothing to guide him; for though the torches were blazing ruddily below, their gleam fell only on the side of the building. Arrived at the latter place, Jonathan, who, meanwhile, had contrived to liberate his attendants from their bonds, drew up at the Six Bells, and hiring a couple of horses, despatched his attendants in search of Jack Sheppard, while he proceeded to town. It was noon when the caravan reached the tower of the water-clock. ‘May I, indeed? I’ll take you up on that. 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. Everything goes—the copra for oil, the fibre of the husk for rope, and the shell for carbon. His relation of the murder of Sir Rowland petrified even his fierce auditors. 'Whoso giveth to the poor lendeth to the Lord;' that's my comfort. “I have noticed,” he said, “that you seem to delight in taking a topsy-turvy view of life.
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