The real Ruth was as completely hidden as though she stood behind the walls of Agra Fort. There sat Jack, evidently in the last stage of intoxication, with his collar opened, his dress disarranged, a pipe in his mouth, a bowl of punch and a halfemptied rummer before him,—there he sat, receiving and returning, or rather attempting to return,—for he was almost past consciousness,—the blandishments of a couple of females, one of whom had passed her arm round his neck, while the other leaned over the back of his chair and appeared from her gestures to be whispering soft nonsense into his ear. “And let us have a talk about this—some other time. "It was silly. Only one thing emerged with any reasonable clarity in her mind at once, and that was that unless she was saved from drowning by an unmarried man, in which case the ceremony is unavoidable, or totally destitute of under-clothing, and so driven to get a trousseau, in which hardship a trousseau would certainly be “ripping,” marriage was an experience to be strenuously evaded. \"I'm not hungry either, I'm still worked up from that game. “It is a secret mission,” she declared. But with Gosse and the woman in prison here, there is always the chance that the whole affair may be raked up all over again. “This,” he said, and then: “No! Is this sweeter? Very well. Canton was something like a blind alley; unless you were native, you couldn't get anywhere except by returning to Hong-Kong and starting afresh. . Perhaps you'll next inform us why you have occasioned this disturbance. “And where are YOU going?” he said. He'll be brought out at this door, and may probably make some resistance.
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