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"What a lot of questions you do ask, Treevor!" she returned sulkily. "I don't know how he will get the money. He will make Nanine give him some, I suppose. Let us forget it all, I don't want to think of that any more." I laughed. "Very well. If you have finished your supper, come over here and sit on my knee and we will forget it all, as you say."
Hackett she was very good to me, only she wanted to sell me for two hundred and fifty dollars to Chinaman. I said, 'No, I belong to rich Englishman. He send you more if you wait. He send you three hundred! And I wrote you, you remember?" "Yes," I answered. "Did you get the money all right that I cabled to you?" "Oh yes, Treevor, thank you; and Nanine had it and so she was willing to keep me."
I kept my arms round her and said: "But, Suzee, I can't take you with me. I promised your husband to-night I would not." "That's nothing," she replied lightly; "promises are nothing when one loves. And you love me, Treevor; you must love me, and I am coming with you, you can't drive me away." The ship's bells sounded overhead on deck as she spoke. The sound seemed a warning.
"Suzee," I said, my breath almost dying in my throat. She stirred slightly. I was beside her in a moment. Her eyelids opened slowly. Then her eyes filled with terror. "Where is he?" she muttered. "Dead; he cannot hurt you any more. You are safe now." "No, Treevor, I am dying; it pains me so here." She laid one hand on her breast and I saw the blood well up between two fingers.
"Oh yes, Meester Treevor, sit down," and she came hastily forward to rearrange them for me with Oriental politeness. I sat down, drawing up my legs as I best could, and pointed to a place beside me. "Come and sit down, Suzee," I said; "I have something to show you now." She came and sat beside me, but not very close, with her knees raised and her smooth lissom little hands clasped round them.
Overhead I heard movements and clanking chains and shuffling feet. Our ship was leaving, and she was still on board with me. "Go out of that window now, instantly, or I shall put you out." "You will not, Treevor," beginning to cry; "you won't be so unkind. I only want to stay with you; let me stay." She was half-sitting on the edge of my berth, clinging to it with both hands.
In a little while Suzee came running back to me; her basket was full to overflowing: she was quite happy. "Take me up in your arms and kiss me," she said. "Look, Treevor, we are all alone. What a great, great beach it is here, with not another soul to see anywhere."
"Carry me, Treevor, over the bridge and up the slope at the side. It is so nice to feel you carrying me." It was no difficulty to carry her, and the waves of electricity from her joyous little soul rushed through me till my arms and all the veins of my body seemed alight and burning. I ran with her, over the narrow bridge and up the slope, where, as she said, there was drier ground.
My bones stuck out so," she put her hands edgeways to her sides to indicate how her ribs, now remarkably well covered, had stood out from her sufferings; but remembering the fictitious blows she had recounted to me when I first met her, I was not so much stirred by her recital as I might otherwise have been. "And what about the child?" I asked. "The boy? Oh, Treevor, he died very soon after.
Suzee came over to where I was sitting and knelt beside my chair, clasping both hands round my arm. "Treevor," she said, almost in a whisper, "you are so beautiful with your straight face, every line in it is so straight, quite straight; and your black hair and your dark eyes and your dark eyebrows. I want that for my baby.
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