” Michelle patted Lucy’s shoulder
reassuringly. ‘Get out! Out, I say! Think I want another miserable cowardly good-for-nothing
wastrel on my hands? Begone! Out of my house!’
He drove them to the door, grimly satisfied when the girl’s nerve broke. He laughed to hide his uneasiness. 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. She could not see what occurred, though she guessed it; but she saw
Jonathan's devilish triumphing glance, and read in it,—"Your son has committed
a robbery—here—in these holy walls—he is mine—mine for ever!"
She uttered a loud scream, and fainted. Men had tried to kiss her—
unshaven derelicts, some of them terrible—but she had always managed to
escape. “These are the sort of things that aren’t supposed to happen. "Why did I not keep the money when I had it?" returned Blueskin, angrily. .
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