THE SIAMESE CAT
children to-morrow.' I remember the courier objected, and Mr. Sanders snubbed him for being impudent."
"Miss Holborow," said Owen, gravely, "It sounds foolish, but I think it's dangerous for you to keep that beast. The burglars came here because he came. Whether Borkman sent them, or whether he stood on guard against them, I can't tell yet. The entire affair is blindman's-buff. But one thing I begin to see: wherever Chao Phya goes, there'll be trouble."
"I won't give him up now," she declared, with the pout of a spoiled child. "But we can't fill Mr. Sanders's house full of Chinese burglars, can we? Please tell me what to do?"
"Promise me one thing," he answered. "When you engage passage back to Singapore, tell me; and let me take the same steamer. Our friend the King of Spades is not the safest of guides. Does your agreement let you dis-
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