[Adventure by Jack London]@TWC D-Link bookAdventure CHAPTER XVIII--MAKING THE BOOKS COME TRUE 29/30
The ready-made clothes from Sydney had transformed her.
A simple skirt and shirt-waist of some sort of wash- goods set off her trim figure with a hint of elegant womanhood that was new to him.
Brown slippers peeped out as she crossed the compound, and he once caught a glimpse to the ankle of brown open-work stockings. Somehow, she had been made many times the woman by these mere extraneous trappings; and in his mind these wild Arabian Nights adventures of hers seemed thrice as wonderful. As they went in to breakfast he became aware that Munster and Sparrowhawk had received a similar shock.
All their air of _camaraderie_ was dissipated, and they had become abruptly and immensely respectful. "I've opened up a new field," she said, as she began pouring the coffee. "Old Kina-Kina will never forget me, I'm sure, and I can recruit there whenever I want.
I saw Morgan at Guvutu.
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