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the bitter Yellow Sea, up the blue Bay of Bengal, with h her heart ached, it was

i eyes should not absorb all she saw and e elusive Hindu had disappeared after Hongkong That was a

weight off her soul She was now assured that her i about her? What was more

natural than that he should wish to hurry back to his native state?

She was not the only one in a hurry And there were Hindus of all

castes on all three ships By now she had alht recollection to break the unending loneliness

Coapore she hadman by the name of Bruce He was a quiet, rather

untalkative man, lean and sinewy, sun and wind bitten Kathlyn had as

yet had no sentimental affairs Absorbed in her work, her father and

the care of Winnie, such young men as she had met had scarcely

interested her She had only tolerated conteed to that category Bruce caught her interest in

the very fact that he had but little to say and said that crisply and

well There was so authoritative in the shape of his h before her he never exercised this

power A dozen ti him into her

confidence, but the irony of fate had always firmly closed her lips