Jarvo

"Very long," Jarvo responded, "but no, adôn, we land on this coast."

Romance Island Zona Gale 1906

Jarvo gave a sharp command, and all four of the men broke into a rhythmic chant.

Romance Island Zona Gale 1906

Jarvo shook his head, like a man who has thought of everything.

Romance Island Zona Gale 1906

Evidently Jarvo had been waiting for this stretch of open road and expecting the other car to take it.

Romance Island Zona Gale 1906

Jarvo had taken the leap, easily and gracefully, alighting on the other side like the greyhound that he resembled, and the others, following, had cleared the edge by as safe a margin as if the abyss were a minor field-day event, St. George and Amory looked back with sudden wonder over the path by which they had come.

Romance Island Zona Gale 1906

"Come, Jarvo," he cried gaily -- was he shouting, he wondered, and wasn't that what he was trying to do -- to shout to make some far-away voice answer him?

Romance Island Zona Gale 1906

Jarvo, leading the way, sprang immediately upon the first foothold, where none seemed to be, and without pause to the next.

Romance Island Zona Gale 1906

"Anybody would think I was Crass, writing head-lines," he told himself, and blew a cloud of smoke through which to look at Jarvo.

Romance Island Zona Gale 1906

So were Amory and Jarvo, and Rollo of the oil-skins, but these mattered very little, for it was St. George whose eyes burned in his pale face and were striving to catch the faintest motion in that fleeing car ahead.

Romance Island Zona Gale 1906

"We shall be obliged to land upon the east coast then, Jarvo?" observed St. George; "but how long will it take us to sail round the island?"

Romance Island Zona Gale 1906