"Sometimes," he said, "it would be jolly if you'd let me know how she gets on. I'll give you my address. I suppose I'll get back there some day. If I'm ever a millionaire, I'd like to send her to college, or something—just for fun, you know, on account of the adventure."
"The way our grateful patients stick up red and gold votive tablets all over the hospital," Dr. Rodney said.
"Exactly," said Mark.
"Don't talk, Rodney," Miss Macdougal ordered. "Step out and be arranging for a boat. The thing these boys want to do is to reach Shanghai as fast as they can. We're keeping them in torment."
"But first we'll all dine together," cried the settlement official. "A feast, if it can be done at such short notice."
"Think of it—not rice and mud!" murmured Alan.
"Eh?" said Miss Macdougal.
