Ho-hum!
CHAPTER IX
The Hong-Kong packet lay alongside the warehouse frontage. Spurlock plodded through the heavy sand, leaden in the heart and mind as well
as in the feet. “I’m a big boy, you know. You are welcome to proclaim yourself ‘Alcide’ if
you will. A post-chaise seen in the road first
alarmed us. We should not
bar any engagements at private houses, but in other respects the arrangement
must be exclusive. ‘And I do not know why you are so
polite, when you have been bad to me last night, and have taken my dagger. He
felt hands tugging at him, mysterious creatures with long
fingers and sharp nails that pulled at his flesh. Did he intend to kill her now, this instant? Or had she a
moment or two to try to save herself? Recalling Leonardo’s dictum, she did not
struggle, for that would only tighten the trap about her, and perhaps even spring
it. The light touch of Ah Cum's hand upon her arm broke the thread of retrospective
thought; and her gray eyes began to register again the things she saw.
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