Chapter XVI
Roma was glad when she heard that Scobee and Hung Long Tom were planning a trip to China. Although she was only his stepmother she had all of a real mother's love for Scobee. It had been one of the saddest happenings of her life when he refused to accept her as his mother. She had always longed for children, yet always she had remained childless.
Scobee had accepted her as a friend, nothing more. The house was his mother for in the house was hidden the songs and dreams of his mother. She had never died. She was always with him. Roma longed to comfort him in his trouble but she did not know how
to approach him. Still something had to be
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