"I'm sorry," she said. The gentleman
catched him i' th' fact, and we shut him up for safety i' that pris'n. Wood, delighted at the idea. ‘What did
you do with the portrait then? Not that I suppose it is much use any longer. ‘Oh, peste,’ she cried out in distressed tones. Her sleepless
night had left her languid but not stupefied, and for an hour or so the work
distracted her altogether from her troubles. I did what I
could to comfort her but she died in terrible pain. 276
He opened the box. There was an air of repressed gaiety in her actions: the sense of
freedom had returned; her heart was empty again. ‘It is not your affair. That
was the true marvel of it. He swore when I tried to get it out with the ladle, and told
me what it said. 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. “He was alive at four o’clock this afternoon,” she answered, “but the doctors
give little hope of his recovery.
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