CHAPTER XIX
CROSS PURPOSES
JANE had spoken gallantly when she stood in the doorway of Mr. Tyler's office and said, "Now let's go and do something about it!"
But it was not so easy to do anything about the plight of Mark and Alan lngram. Apart from despatching notices to neighboring cities—after all, a very vague and slender hope—there was nothing to do but wait and wait. It seemed to Jane that she had spent her whole life waiting. Waiting to find the ship model, waiting for its return to the Ingrams, waiting for it to better their fortunes, waiting for news from China, for the Kyoto Maru to reach Shanghai, and now this most weary and hideous waiting of all!
Mr. Bolliver had no more heart than she for the bright, many-wondered streets of Shanghai.
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