Ah Cum presented his black-bordered card to such
individuals as seemed likely to require his services. ’
Chapter Ten
‘I am come on a mission of some delicacy, ma’am,’ Gerald said calmly to the old
lady. ”
“A little pit!” said Ann Veronica; “a little prison!”
“It’s just as often a little refuge. Impelled by a feeling,
into which we shall not pause to inquire, the stranger started after them; but they
were better mounted, and soon distanced him. In his muscular pudgy hand
was a photograph, frayed at the corners, soiled from the contact of many hands:
the portrait of a youth of eighteen. One from 1966, a yearbook
photo reprinted in a newspaper. “You are talking like a boy. Ruth made a little gesture, of infinite pity; and this was quickly seized upon by
the slant-eyed Chinese girl. ’
‘Melusine, sir,’ Gerald reminded the general, exchanging a frustrated glance
with Mrs Sindlesham. She knew the significance:
the red corpuscle was being burnt out by the fires of alcohol.
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