’ Gerald remained infuriatingly calm. “You be off, missie,” said the fatherly policeman. He sat back in an easy chair with a hand upon each of the elbows, and looked steadfastly into the fire. “I didn’t know you objected to him, daddy. "Aren't you afraid?" "Of what?"—serenely. What right had a young woman to possess the scarring and intimate knowledge of that dreg of human society, the beachcomber? CHAPTER II Ah Cum lived at No. Lucy was surprised to hear that any party could happen on a week night, but the parents of the house in question were the rich absentee type. 1. But he reckoned without his host. London, Paris, Rome! There were no hotel labels on the patient's trunk, but there were ship labels; and by these she was able to reconstruct the journey: from New York to Naples, thence to Alexandria; from Port Saïd to Colombo; from Colombo to Bombay; from Calcutta to Rangoon, thence down to Singapore; from Singapore to Hong-Kong. Soon the trunk, portmanteau and hat box were ready. Will you be a faithful and honest wife? Will you do your duty by him, and forget all your past follies? Unless, Annabel, you can——” “Oh, I will pledge you my word,” Annabel cried passionately, “my solemn word. ‘You have a knack of saying just the wrong thing. So, here he was, on the last lap of middle age, in China, having missed all the thrills in life except one—the war against Death. But I'm not worrying about that.
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