" "What's that?" asked Wood with some curiosity. “You remind me of the story which they tell against us over here, you know—of the Englishman who refused to be saved from drowning because he was unacquainted with his rescuer. She felt her canines grow, the hunger consuming her. She got home every night in time to cook supper and it was good money. That was the wonder of these stories; one lived in them. Here we are absconding, pretending to be what we are not; shady, to say the least of it. Men had tried that before, but never until now had they been quick enough. Ramage looked at her for a long and discriminating interval without speaking. ‘What we have to find out is whether or not the wretched female is in fact Lord Charvill’s granddaughter. I haven’t taken much account of it until now. This obstacle being removed, in his eagerness to proceed, he had forgotten to take his little charge with him. The half-nude brown bodies of the crew informed Ah Cum that the schooner had come up from the South Seas. That was one of the mysterious qualities of this child of the lagoon: she had always at instant service that Oriental mask of impenetrable calm that no Occidental trick could dislodge. He hadn't followed this angle of thought in ten years: what he might have been, with a little shrewd selfishness.
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