Efforts were made to staunch his wounds and
surgical assistance sent for. It is the old story of a Westerner meddling with
an Eastern custom. With some difficulty he contrived to raise her to the window, and with
still greater difficulty to squeeze her through it—her bulk being much greater
than his own. “You know about my
scandalous past?”
“Very little. “You cowards!”
said Ann Veronica, “put her down!” and tore herself from a detaining hand and
battered with her fists upon the big red ear and blue shoulder of the policeman
who held the little old lady. “My God!” he said at last, with tremendous feeling, and then again, “My
God!”
Now that this thing was said her mind was clear and calm. Ann Veronica woke rather later than usual, and lay awake for some
minutes before she remembered a certain resolution she had taken in the small
hours. At the period of this history, the main streets of the metropolis were but
imperfectly lighted, while the less-frequented avenues were left in total
obscurity; but, even at the present time, the maze of courts and alleys into which
Wild now plunged, would have perplexed any one, not familiar with their
intricacies, to thread them on a dark night. The skipper, Van Galgebrok, affirmed to me,—nay, gave me
the additional testimony of two of his crew,—that he was thrown overboard.
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