"Was there any other
woman back there in the States?"
"Nary a female. “Ye
Gods!” she said at last. She was glad to join in
the stream of hurrying homeward workers that was now welling out of a
thousand places of employment, and to imitate their driven, preoccupied haste. She seemed to have recovered herself as he returned, but rose as if she
would go back to the saloon. "
He summoned another "boy" and rumbled some Cantonese. The old lady clearly read his state of mind, for the apparently irrepressible
dimple peeped out. He
claimed me for his wife, and showed to every one a marriage certificate. "Come home directly, Sir. To-morrow night
—or rather to-night, for we are fast verging on another day—I propose to lure
him out of the house by a stratagem which I am sure will prove infallible; and,
then, what so easy as to knock him on the head. Having drunk as much as he thought prudent, and thanked
his unknown friend for his attention, Jack again lay down on the straw, and
indulged himself with another nap, intending to get up as soon as it was perfectly
dark. “To be an actress,” he said, “you require a special and peculiar temperament. She
reads novels—and history—and all sorts of things. “I am sure,” she said, “that you mean to stay until you are turned out.
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