Promptly Ah Cum wired the information to O'Higgins in Hong-Kong.

The detective reckoned that his quarry would be up in ten days more.
To Ruth the thought of Hartford no longer projected upon her vision a city of spires and houses and tree-lined streets.

Her fanciful imagination no longer drew pictures of the aunt in the doorway of a wooden house, her arms extended in welcome.

The doctor's lessons, perhaps delivered with too much serious emphasis, had destroyed that buoyant confidence in her ability to take care of herself.
Between Canton and Hartford two giants had risen, invisible but menacing--Fear and Doubt.

The unknown, previously so attractive, now presented another face--blank.