She met him by the dugout after the game. 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. “He was a friend of your sister’s, was he not?” “I never heard her mention his name,” she answered. “A girl needs her mother most exactly when she thinks she doesn’t. The mother, Cathy Beck, was as patient and as charitable of an individual that Lucy had ever known, a big kindly Polish-American woman with the heart of an angel. ” “You will shake hands with me, please,” she begged. “Just like old times,” she thought sardonically. “That is your sister’s name. That was odd: when young people were joyous, they had to express it physically. ” “Thank you very much,” Anna said. "What did you say to him?" inquired Jonathan, suspiciously. But before the child could be committed to her care, it was wrested from the carpenter by Rowland. "I owe you nothing," he repeated, dully. He slapped his knee.
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