Had he been trying to stop the grim descent,
and had he dimly perceived that perhaps a fine deed would serve as the initial
barrier? A drunken idea—a pearl in the midst of a rubbish heap. His destination was the New Mint. ‘Poor things. It was a neat, efficient-looking room,
with a writing-table placed with a business-like regard to the window, and a
bookcase surmounted by a pig’s skull, a dissected frog in a sealed bottle, and a
pile of shiny, black-covered note-books. She shook her head, almost breaking a smile. There were three other ships at anchor; but as two
would be making Shanghai and one rounding to Singapore two days hence, it
was logically certain that no fugitive would seek haven in one of these. Sheppard repressed the scream that rose to her
lips, and both mother and son gazed with apprehension at the heavy figure of the
thief-taker, which, viewed in the twilight, seemed dilated to twice its natural size,
and appeared almost to block up the window. She was gone.
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