20/21 "He came home in a seventh heaven of happiness babbling of what an angel straight from the sky Miss Billy was. Naturally I agreed with him on that point. But what did you do to him ?" Billy smiled. That was dear of you, Billy." "As if I'd do anything else! And now for Dong Ling, I suppose, some day." Bertram chuckled. "You see, his Celestial Majesty came to me himself the other day, and said, after sundry and various preliminaries, that he should be 'velly much glad' when the 'Little Missee' came to live with me, for then he could go back to China with a heart at rest, as he had money 'velly much plenty' and didn't wish to be 'Melican man' any longer." "Dear me," smiled Billy, "what a happy state of affairs--for him. |