all of them are living in separate sections of the city , in districts well known to the professional herpetologist like the adrossiments of paris , but when i get up to move i discover to my amazement that the tables in the small rare books room have emptied , of people , and of their barriers of books , except for myself and the white-haired nut who is lingering and laughing over a volume ; i see the title which is mineral wealth of old arizona and with the ivy vines drifting through the open windows of the second floor sway in the breeze making toward the book with long fingers as though the ivy wanted to read and then in perspective i could see that the ivy made a gauzy film over the glimmering palm trees .