“Now, Veronica,” he pleaded, “Veronica, this is most unreasonable. He sent me home. She got a
bun and some cocoa in the little refreshment-room, and then wandered through
the galleries up-stairs, crowded with Polynesian idols and Polynesian dancinggarments, and all the simple immodest accessories to life in Polynesia, to a seat
among the mummies. ’
‘Well for him,’ remarked Captain Roding. 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. "
"He couldn't help it, Ruth. She had mentioned the address where she and her
sister had lived. Haven’t I shown you over and over again that I mean you no
harm? What do I have to do?’
‘You can go away and leave me to my affairs,’ she threw at him. Aware of the cunning and desperate
characters of the persons with whom she would have to deal,—aware, also, that
she was in a quarter where no laws could be appealed to, nor assistance obtained,
she felt the absolute necessity of caution.
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