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She hung up the phone. ’ She spread her hands. As though accidentally she
swept her skirts from a chair close drawn to her own. Heliers. Aware that he should incur the
thief-taker's bitterest animosity by what he had done, the watchman, whose
wrath against Quilt Arnold had evaporated during the walk, thought it more
prudent not to hazard a meeting with his master, till the storm had, in some
measure, blown over. And, if I'd my own way, I'd drown 'em all like a litter o'
puppies. They took their places at a distant table. ‘Well, what was I to think, miss? Martha never wrote nothing about you, and I
did ask. Couldn’t make head nor tail of that note of yours. Advancing towards the Master, and claiming an audience, which was instantly
granted, Jonathan, without much circumlocution, related the sum of the strange
story he had just learnt from Wood, omitting nothing except a few trifling
particulars, which he thought it politic to keep back; and, with this view, he said
not a word of there being any probability of capturing the fugitive, but, on the
contrary, roundly asserted that his informant had witnessed that person's escape. She went to a writing-desk and made some memoranda on a
sheet of note-paper, and then remembered that she had no address as yet to
which letters could be sent. ”
Anna was silent. "
"And what is a geisha girl?"
Not to have heard of the geisha! It was as if she had asked: "What is Paris?"
What manner of tourist was this who had heard neither of the geisha of Japan
nor of the sing-song girl of China? Before he could marshal the necessary
phrases to explain, Ruth herself indicated her thought. .
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