Voices floated down, but there was no sound of pursuit. Ho-hum! CHAPTER IX The Hong-Kong packet lay alongside the warehouse frontage. "Come with me, my love, come—come," cried his mother, seizing his hand, and endeavouring to force him away. Behind the poet came Sir James Thornhill. And yet—he thought of the supper party where he had met Annabel Pellissier, the stories about her, his own few minutes’ whispered lovemaking! He was a self-contained young man, but his cheeks grew hot at the thought of the things which it had seemed quite natural to say to her then, but which he knew very well would have been instantly resented by the girl whom he had just left. Without preamble, in a voice of extreme exasperation, he demanded, ‘Now what the devil’s to do? What in God’s name do you mean by sending Gerald such a ridiculous letter? Never read anything half as crazy. She liked the animated eagerness of his manner. Sheppard. I shall make no defence. This lover of yours—” “He doesn’t know!” cried Ann Veronica. As he anticipated, he was here comparatively screened from the fury of the wind; and when he gazed upon the roaring fall beneath him, visible through the darkness in a glistening sheet of foam, his heart overflowed with gratitude for his providential deliverance. "Victoria; that's the hotel. But all these hours, trying to teach the child wariness toward life, and the moment his back was turned, this! He was, perhaps, still dazed by the inner revelation—his own interest in Ruth.
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