Gerald liked her enormously. It made her laugh, which in turn made him
laugh. I asked
him to take me away, and hide me. He had been
reading Belfort Bax, and declared himself a convert. Then he goes stony, and beats
his way around the islands for another three months. “I love your sister. Yet, here she was, in
the ancient Chinese city, weaving in and out of the narrow streets some scarcely
wide enough for two men to walk abreast, streets that boiled and eddied with
yellow human beings, who worshipped strange gods, ate strange foods, and
diffused strange suffocating smells. That night, she
hunted the alleyways of the old town. Seven hundred forty-two dollars and eighty-one cents,
the sum total of her money in the world that she hid in a
filigreed cigar box shelved behind her schoolbooks. “I’d give anything,” he remarked, “to see our little Vee happily and
comfortably married.
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