16/49 "No money and nothing at all but this." She designated her dress. "Isn't it ugly ?" "It is decidedly not becoming," I admitted. If you don't tell me, I must die." She leaned back placidly, having thus put upon my shoulders the responsibility of her existence. I did not know which to admire more, her cool assurance or the stoic fortitude with which she faced dissolution. "He made me stay in my cabin all the time I was in the steamer. |