[The Adventures of Kathlyn by Harold MacGrath]@TWC D-Link bookThe Adventures of Kathlyn CHAPTER XVI 23/34
Now let us try to look at the cheerful side of the business.
Think of what that girl has gone through with scarcely a scratch! Can't you read something in that? See how strong and self-reliant she has become under such misfortunes as would have driven mad any ordinary woman! Can't you see light in all this? I tell you, there is good and evil working for and against us, and that Ahmed's fakir will in the end prove stronger than your bally old guru. When I am out of the Orient I laugh at such things, but I can't laugh at them somehow when I'm in India." "Nor I." That night Kathlyn signified that she wished to go down to the beach beyond the harbor basin.
Bruce accompanied her.
Often he caught her staring out at the twinkling lights on board the Simla.
By and by they could hear the windlass creaking.
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