When he returned to Hong-Kong, there was a reply to his cable:
"Hang on. Did you not hear the shot?’
‘I ain’t saying as I didn’t hear no shot,’ Trodger said carefully, peering at her
out of eyes narrowed with interest, ‘but what I do say is, it’s mighty peculiar you
saying as how there’s a Frenchman in the case, when it’s as plain as the nose on
your face that you’re a Frenchwoman yourself. Nine years ago, I worked in this very house—had a kind indulgent
master, whom I robbed—twice robbed, at your instigation, villain; a mistress,
whom you have murdered; a companion, whose friendship I have for ever
forfeited; a mother, whose heart I have well-nigh broken. ”
“Why not?” she asked quietly. “I thought you weren’t getting along so well with your
mother these days. "
"I tell 'ee what, landlord," observed the old sailor, quietly replenishing his pipe
from a huge pewter tobacco-box, as the waterman and Wood quitted the house,
"you've said good-b'ye to your friend. She, however, had no idea of doing anything of
the sort. Henceforth, I utterly throw off the yoke you
have laid upon me. You are greatly
altered. “I”—he seemed to have a difficulty with the word—“I love you. Kneebone," observed
Shotbolt, as he emptied his tenth tumbler; "I'm sure he's meditating an escape,
and hopes to accomplish it to-night.
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