‘You cannot mean General Charvill?’ ‘That old martinet?’ exclaimed Roding. “I have a special surprise for you, Lucia. It would send business elsewhere; and the hotel business in Canton was never so prosperous that one could afford to lose a single guest. My son wanted to marry a woman of thirty in a tobacconist’s shop. He singled out my poor husband from a crowd of other felons; and you know how right he was in that case, Sir. “How CAN I tell him?” whispered Miss Stanley. At times he was brilliant and masterful, talked round and over every one, and would have been domineering if he had not been extraordinarily kindly; at times he was almost monosyllabic, and defeated Miss Garvice’s most skilful attempts to draw him out. She had behaved in every way perfectly. But she was only able to save a corner of the letter. To-morrow I am going to Paris. Even in his fevered hours, so the girl had said, his tongue had not betrayed him. “You need a reason. The sing-song girls in Hong-Kong are far handsomer. " The spinster had no retort to offer such directness.
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