88/157 Perhaps she wasn't hungry, and perhaps she didn't wish to register, eh ?" "Had her speech an accent? She's not young, you know ?" "I'm not looking for a young woman." "Well, she's gone and you can't reach her to-night. There they are now, see! about a quarter of the way across. That small boat just slipping across the wake of the big one." Mr.Gryce looked and saw that she was in the way of escape for to-night. |