So far he had not stirred; from his bloodless lips had come no sound.
At length the manager arrived; and together he and Ruth succeeded in getting some of the aromatic spirits of ammonia down the patient's throat.

But nothing followed to indicate that the liquid had stimulated the heart.
"You see ?" Ruth said.
The manager conceded that he saw, that his original diagnosis was at fault.

Superimposed was the agitating thought of what would follow the death of this unwelcome guest: confusion, poking authorities, British and American red tape.

It would send business elsewhere; and the hotel business in Canton was never so prosperous that one could afford to lose a single guest.

Clientele was of the most transitory character.
And then, there would be the question of money.