He helped himself to a beer, then a vodka and tonic, then two rum and Cokes. Her people live in Heng-Chow, in the Hu-nan province. Most of the time, he was hunting and he returned at night. She taught him all the lore she had; about bird-life and tree-life and the changing mysteries of the sea. ‘Sir?’ Hilary threw a brief glance at Trodger, and quickly returned his intent gaze to the Frenchman, who had halted once more, and stood as if thinking deeply. She grew perhaps a shade paler, and she glanced out into the street, where her four-wheeler cab, laden with luggage, was still waiting. “I don’t know. I am carrying back a hundred new books and forty new records for the piano-player. Springing to his feet in an ecstasy of terror, he stumbled, and had well nigh realized his worst apprehensions. That could signify nothing except that the doctor had a friend down there somewhere, on an island in one of those archipelagoes. The bodies had been found in the river without their heads, which were busy decomposing in a ravine. In Europe or in America people would have smiled; but in Singapore—the half-way port of the world—where a human kaleidoscope tumbles continuously east and west, no one had remarked her. Howsomdever, if you should reach t'other side, take an old feller's advice, and don't be foolhardy enough to venter back again.
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