. That she possessed any sense of humour was in itself one of those human miracles which metaphysicians are always pothering over without arriving anywhere; for her previous environment had been particularly humourless. " Ruth had read from page to page in "The Child's Garden of Verse," generally unfamiliar to the admirers of Stevenson. The brown house, almost exactly the same as the Beck’s, turned black as pitch in the gloom. Old saltwater was right. ‘Word has it that she is English on her father’s side. She forgot Anna’s sacrifices, forgot her own callousness, forgot the burden which she had fastened upon her sister’s shoulders. She was lamentably without comparisons; such few young men as she had seen—white men—had been on the beach, pitiful and terrible objects. I have two Malay clerks in the store; but I'm obliged to have a white man to watch over them, or they'd clean me out. After all, what did it matter?—it or anything else in the world? She was within reach of his arms, beautiful, compelling, herself as it seemed suddenly conscious of the light which was burning in his eyes. “I have stood it for a month, Anna,” he exclaimed. Abruptly would come the end. Then I tucked it nice and snug under the saddle-bag. She found herself trying on the baubles he brought home, placing the silver rings upon her slim fingers, knowing that he would take up her hand and kiss it.
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