“I guess I’m not
the only one who wonders about your past. "
"What do you mean, Sir?" asked Trenchard. "I'm a detective; my ears and eyes have been trained to absorb
all I see and all I hear. But I was portentous, I can assure you. Framed in one of the square ports of the packet was
a face which reminded Ah Cum of a Japanese theatrical mask. He wanted to know what the
joke against him was—if any. “He naturally does
not wish for connexions which are—I do not wish to hurt you feelings, Anna,
but I must say it—not altogether desirable. I swore I would
bring your husband to the gallows,—would plunge you in such want, such
distress, that you should have no alternative but the last frightful resource of
misery,—and I also swore, that if you had a son he should share the same fate as
his father. A dozen
shynesses and intellectual barriers were being outflanked or broken down in her
mind. "
Her son complied, and sat down upon the patch-work coverlet beside her. It's only right that his people
should know where he is and what has happened to him.
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