”
“And why shouldn’t you?”
“I felt that sort of thing couldn’t go on. ‘Might have forgiven him,’ he muttered under his breath, ‘if he hadn’t taken
the babe. ”
“I wanted to, John. To
buy the freedom of a poor little Chinese slave-girl! For what was the sing-song
girl but a slave, the double slave of custom and of men? Ruth wanted to know
keenly what had impelled the idea. She will sail, at early dawn to-morrow, for
Rotterdam. If I were Mr. ’
‘Comment? How will it serve you to kill me?’
‘I do not need to kill you. ”
Annabel laughed derisively and took up her book. 272
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EPILOGUE
She paced the Manhattan neighborhood, her backpack
swinging, marveling at the austere buildings gleaming
silver in their starkness. “There ought to be some means of getting at him,” he said. And what took you to Remenham House?’
‘I shall come to that presently,’ said Gerald cautiously. He flung open the door and cast a quick glance round. Stanley, to which the two ladies subordinated
themselves intelligently. He did not care whether the stories
were accepted or not. “I have a message from your sister.
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