"You're right Jack," he said, after a pause, during which he contemplated the
picture with the most fixed attention: "this must have been my father!"
"No doubt of it," answered Sheppard; "only compare it with Winny's drawing,
and you'll find they're as like as two peas in a pod. "Are you returning to Hong-Kong to-morrow by the day boat?"
For a moment Ruth was astonished at the sound of the spinster's voice. But as she got out of the train at Morningside Park Station she had a shock. “Am I dull?” she said. I did not even know where to write and thank you. "
"I'v not failed," returned Jack, angrily; "but we've done too much. The candle was shaking in his hand as
Ruth appeared in the doorway. ”
“There is no one else who has a key to your rooms?”
“No one except my maid, who is away in Wiltshire. While he was thus occupied,
Thames, prompted by an unaccountable feeling of curiosity, took up the penknife
which the other had just used, and examined the haft. "Out of the beaten track, with a real
man for an employer? How would that strike you?"
Interest shot into Spurlock's eyes; it spread to his wan face. "It's like enough, I dare say," rejoined Sheppard. There was a very substantial profit in
the transaction, for he paid the natives in commodities—coloured cotton cloths,
pipes and tobacco, guns and ammunition, household utensils, cutlery and glass
gewgaws. ”
“Remember that you are young still, and fond of admiration,” Anna said. There was a lot of that, John, a great deal of
hunger. Stanley came home at a quarter to six—an earlier train by fifteen
minutes than he affected—his sister met him in the hall with a hushed
expression.
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