“I’ve had most of the things I wanted,” said Ramage, in the stillness of the
night. A short way off in the fields he descried a sort of shed or
cow-house, and thither he contrived to drag his weary limbs. “It was perhaps
my fault. There were three other ships at anchor; but as two
would be making Shanghai and one rounding to Singapore two days hence, it
was logically certain that no fugitive would seek haven in one of these. "He hears me not! he's gone!"
she added, as the door was opened and shut with violence; "something tells me I
shall never see him again!"
When her father, a moment afterwards, issued from the parlour to ascertain the
cause of the noise, he found her seated on the stairs, in an agony of grief. He had absorbed her in a single glance, and was
now defining her as he worked. “I will be off,” she declared. Smith, now, being more than half-seas over, became very uproarious, and,
claiming the attention of the table, volunteered the following
DRINKING SONG. But tell me," he
added with much anxiety, "has nothing been heard of Thames since the night of
my former escape?"
"Nothing whatever," answered Winifred. “You may not leave. Where else could she go?’
‘And there aren’t too many of them around,’ agreed Hilary on a gloomy note. Sheppard trembled violently; and though she understood his meaning too
well, she answered,—"I can't guess. He couldn't have taken Mr. SHOOH!”
“That’s no reason,” said Ann Veronica, speaking through her handkerchief and
stopping abruptly.
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