None of this by-play escaped Ruth, whose sense of humour needed no developing. Maybe the girl was telling the truth, and then again, maybe she wasn't. CHAPTER XXI McClintock's island was twelve miles long and eight miles wide, with the shape of an oyster. Bulging out more in the middle than at the two extremities, it resembled an enormous cask set on its end, —a sort of Heidelberg tun on a large scale,—and this resemblance was increased by the small circular aperture—it hardly deserved to be called a door—pierced, like the bung-hole of a barrell, through the side of the structure, at some distance from the ground, and approached by a flight of wooden steps. ’ ‘Willingly?’ ‘Parbleu, what a person you think me. Faintly bothered by what it might mean, Gerald rose from his seat and crossed to the tray to pour himself a glass of wine. As he entered the shop, a tall portly personage advanced to meet him, whom he at once recognised as the present proprietor. She had thought of the lawyer who conducted the Remenham business, but she knew not where to find him.
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