" "Poor child!" muttered Trenchard, abstractedly; "the whole scene upon the river is passing before me. It was explosive and gratifying. What hotel should she go to? If she told a cabman to drive to an hotel, any hotel, what would he do—or say? He might drive to something dreadfully expensive, and not at all the quiet sort of thing she required. Behind the illustrious personages just described marched a troop of stalwart fellows, with white badges in their hats, quarterstaves, oaken cudgels, and links in their hands. Ho-hum! CHAPTER IX The Hong-Kong packet lay alongside the warehouse frontage. But why did he turn away? "Wait!" Ruth called to her father. After repeatedly trying to remove the plate, which was so firmly screwed down that it resisted all his efforts, and vainly attempting to pick it with the spike and nail; he, at length, after half an hour's ineffectual labour, wrenched off the box by means of the iron bar, and the door, as he laughingly expressed it, "became his humble servant.
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