"Thames!—Thames!" cried Winifred, rushing to the window. Annabel, come to the door with me,” she added a little abruptly. She was dressed in a tattered black stuff gown, discoloured by various stains, and intended, it would seem, from the remnants of rusty crape with which it was here and there tricked out, to represent the garb of widowhood, and held in her arms a sleeping infant, swathed in the folds of a linsey-woolsey shawl. In Europe or in America people would have smiled; but in Singapore—the half-way port of the world—where a human kaleidoscope tumbles continuously east and west, no one had remarked her. Had he had the child to think of, he might have recovered from his grief at Mary’s death. To shore up a business that never had any foundation, he wanted me to lend him a hundred thousand; and for his sake as well as for mine I had to refuse. He tried this sentence with expletives. Why had he kissed her? What had led him into that? Neither love nor passion— utter blankness so far as reducing the act to terms. But at length, there was a click, and with a swish, the panel of painted books swung outward from the wall.
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