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PART II--IN THE FLOOD
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Me fetchee money you.
Me no takee back." Mrs.Tretherick hesitated.

In the confusion of her flight, she MIGHT have left the money in the manner he had said.

In any event, she had no right to jeopardize this honest Chinaman's safety by refusing it.

So she said: "Very well, John, I will keep it.

But you must come again and see me--" here Mrs.Tretherick hesitated with a new and sudden revelation of the fact that any man could wish to see any other than herself--"and, and--Carry." Ah Fe's face lightened.


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