TIME AND CHANCE
The girl searched him through with one bright, incomprehensible look.
"I think," she declared slowly, "that you're a very honest, funny—Boy. Very funny! Didn't you see, you couldn't dog us round the world in this way?"
"Couldn't I?" he answered stubbornly.
"No," said Miss Holborow. "My aunt would never allow it, for one thing." They laughed, and moved away towards breakfast. "If you hadn't told me all that—"she stopped abruptly—"I knew you were very honest, when I saw you at the devil-fishes."
When the ship had anchored in the racing Me-nam, and the howls of coolies and bumping of sampans announced the hour of disembarking, Scarlett paid his farewell compliments.
"And a pleasure for us, too," the little spinster-like matron averred, as if it had been a vote, not wholly of disapproval. "I hope we
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