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To reach the
Sha-mien—and particularly the Hotel Victoria—one crossed a narrow canal,
always choked with rocking sampans over and about which swarmed yellow
men and women and children in varied shades of faded blue cotton. They then took off their boots, and crept stealthily up stairs, treading
upon the point of their toes so cautiously, that not a board creaked beneath their
weight. She had noticed a twenty year pattern emerging, and
funny how opportunity seemed to strike just when she
was getting truly anxious. ”
He sat for a moment, absorbing. Me, you may have. ”
Anna shook her head. It would be useless to tell her to go back, even
heartless; and yet he could not advise her to go on, blindly, not knowing whether
her aunt was dead or alive. The afternoon was her own; but from eight until midnight she sat beside
the patient. The thief-taker's throat
was bound up with thick folds of linen, and his face had a ghastly and
cadaverous look, which communicated an undefinable and horrible expression to
his glances.
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