I am an
educated Chinese, and I resent the imputations against my race. ”
“How delightful!” exclaimed Anna. "
"As an honest Chinaman?"—taking out the offensiveness of the query by
smiling. In the matter of his conscience he was primitive;
and for an educated man to become primitive is to become something of a child. I have a
hundred of them—mixed blood—on my island, and they are always rooking me. "Quite captivated, Ma'am," added Mr. Why should he
stare at her in this fashion?—for all the world as if she had pointed a pistol at his
head?
CHAPTER III
He had said it, spoken it like that … his own name! After all these weeks of
trying to obliterate even the memory of it!… to have given it to this girl without
her asking!
The thought of peril cleared a space in the alcoholic fog. Kneebone said, just now. A tall elegantly dressed woman, followed by a maid, came down the broad
staircase. ”
“I will tell her,” Anna promised. Slowly she
released the hammer on the pistol, uncocking it, and Gerald became conscious
that he had been holding his breath.
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