He became ugly and monstrous, dunning her, threatening her,
assailing her. “My chief,” he said, “took it into his head to have an impromptu dinner party. The four tourists contributed varied sums: the
spinsters ten cents each, the girl a shilling, the young man a Mexican dollar. It was the blood she found that
cemented her decision that her foster daughter was a
criminal. And
now, only twenty-four hours behind him … that is, if he wasn't paddling by on
the return route to Hong-Kong or had dropped down to Macao. “It is very doubtful,” he said. ‘Who’d believe me? And I’d have
to tell my part in it all, too. To his intense satisfaction, Melusine bit her lip on a tremor. Here and there, patches of flesh adhered to the bones, and the dank
dripping hair hanging about what had once been the face, gave it a ghastly
appearance. Sheppard repressed the scream that rose to her
lips, and both mother and son gazed with apprehension at the heavy figure of the
thief-taker, which, viewed in the twilight, seemed dilated to twice its natural size,
and appeared almost to block up the window. What was his transport on
perceiving that a few yards above him a light was burning.
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