How little he
knew about Ruth—the background from which she had sprung! He knew that
her father was a missioner, that her mother was dead, that she had been born on
this island, and that, at the time of his collapse, she had been on the way to an
aunt in the States. They went on talking
in the train—it seemed to her father a slight want of deference to him—and he
listened and pretended to read the Times. She was informed by Ah Cum that the Chinaman
was one of the literati and that he was expounding the deathless philosophy of
Confucius, which, summed up, signified that the end of all philosophy is
Nothing. What matters it? My servant, he is wounded—and by a
Frenchman, if you wish to make an arrest. So that way is closed. The envelope might contain only a request as to what he wanted
done with the manuscripts. “She contrives somehow to strike the personal note in
an amazing manner. ‘I hope I do
not understand you. The summons was instantly answered by a shop-boy. “Yes. ’
Gerald capitulated.
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