Just as the attendants were preparing to lower the corpse into the earth, Jack fell
on his knees beside the coffin, uttering the wildest exclamations of grief,
reproaching himself with the murder of his mother, and invoking the vengeance
of Heaven on his own head. McClintock had brought from
Penang three mangosteen evergreens; and, wonders of wonders, they had thrived
—as trees. Only a book detective could dope this out. I am apparently a beast, a pig and an
imbecile, too, if memory serves me. He admitted that it would bore him to dally here in Canton, with
the pleasures of Hong-Kong so close. Yet either the rest or the wine
seemed already to have done him good. But the
free arm of the stranger hit him a flail-like blow on the chest and sent him
sprawling into the yielding sand. For a few minutes he kept them at
bay. He glanced at the
ruins of his High Priestess. ”
Annabel gave a little gasp. His head was small and bullet-shaped,
and he did not wear a wig, but had his sleek black hair cut off closely round his
temples. Kneebone's house, the young man hastened to a hotel in the
neighbourhood of Covent Garden, where, having procured a horse, he shaped his
course towards the west end of the town.
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