He made his headquarters at the Victoria on the Sha-mien, and generally met the Hong-Kong packet in the morning. ‘Don’t tell me you’ve found her!’ ‘Ah, Gérard,’ uttered the girl in a gratified tone as Major Alderley walked through into the light. The mere fact that he was there in the train alongside her, helping her, sitting opposite to her in the dining-car, presently sleeping on a seat within a yard of her, made her heart sing until she was afraid their fellow passengers would hear it. She was sore and overstrung, and it was intolerable to her that he should stand within three yards of her unsuspectingly, with an incalculably vast power over her happiness. We were fellow passengers from Charing Cross, and we have been fellow lodgers in the Rue d’Entrepot. Before that came your father didn’t even know you were gone. The shouts, yells, and groans which they uttered, and which were echoed by the concourse in the rear, were perfectly frightful. She turned her head away sharply. If you had arrived ten minutes later, or if there hadn't been an iron bar in the chimney, that hindered my progress, I should have been beyond your reach. And this idiot, he has threatened to arrest me and make them take me to prison.
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