14/22 Finish! Never go Home."-- He rose with a laugh and an impatient gesture.--"Come on. Might as well take in the club as to sit here talking rot." Outside the gate of the compound, coolies crouching round a lantern sprang upright and whipped a pair of sedan-chairs into position. The lanterns danced before them down an open road, past a few blank walls and dark buildings, and soon halted before a whitened front, where light gleamed from the upper story. "Narrow and beastly dark." As they stumbled up the steep flight, Rudolph heard the click of billiard balls. |