" "That is what I wanted to know," said Ruth gravely. The great heart of the world beats only where men and women are gathered together. Ann Veronica brought her luggage in a cab from the hotel; she tipped the hotel porter sixpence and overpaid the cabman eighteenpence, unpacked some of her books and possessions, and so made the room a little homelike, and then sat down in a by no means uncomfortable arm-chair before the fire. A thin mist lay on the river, giving the few craft moving about in it a ghostly look. “I want a plain word with you about all this. For her mother to betray her seemed inevitable, but the betrayal seemed worse than her fate. Men in this part of the world drink to forget the things they have lost. She inhaled a deep breath of air—London air. Toys! Delicate trifles! A sex of invalids. ’ The mention of Alderley’s name, as Roding had confidently expected, caused the soldiers’ eyes to veer across to the young lady again, this time with a good deal less sympathy, and much more uncertainty. Her eyes were lit with a gleam of humour. Pure luck! But for that bottle of whisky, nobody in the Hong-Kong Hotel would have been able to identify the photograph; and at this hour James Boyle O'Higgins would have been on the way to Yokohama, and the trail lost for ever. " "Hark!" cried Winifred, "Thames is arrived. Understand me. But I never betray an old customer.
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