CHAPTER XXI
McClintock's island was twelve miles long and eight miles wide, with the shape
of an oyster. Don't be frightened of her. At least I rather hoped I
might spend my time chasing smugglers, which would have afforded some
excitement. “Well anyhow—I don’t see the force of your objection,
you know. “I don’t know. So absorbed was she by her
passionate supplications that she was insensible to anything passing around her,
until she felt a touch upon her shoulder, and heard a well-known voice breathe in
her ear—"Mother!"
She started at the sound as if an apparition had called her, screamed, and fell into
her son's outstretched arms. It was
warm, shielding, comforting, and what was more, full of understanding. She knew that babies came from the
womb; her womb had fallen out with her baby. They parked a block away from Michelle’s house in
the opposite direction of where the Beck’s lived. The hotel manager was
expostulating and Ah Cum was replying by a series of expressive shrugs. T’weren’t fitting, we knew that.
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