This at once thrilled her and worried her. You’d better not have all the money on you; you had better open a small account in the postoffice and draw it out a fiver at a time. She looked at him curiously. Instead, he could not get beyond these minor details—why she wore the dress, whence she had come, and whither she was bound. A wave of pity went over him—pity for the patient, the girl, and his friend. And thus it was that she came upon a book of Stevenson's verse—her first adventure into poetry. She had never before heard the noise of firecrackers, and in the beginning the sputtering racket caused her to wince. It was no easy matter to determine her age, for, though she still retained a certain youthfulness of appearance, she had many marks in her countenance, usually indicating the decline of life, but which in her case were, no doubt, the result of constant and severe indisposition. Ho-hum! CHAPTER IX The Hong-Kong packet lay alongside the warehouse frontage. "I will have it now," rejoined Trenchard, "or our agreement is void. “If it will keep you busy,” he said, with a faintly ironical smile.
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