"Of course, there is a criminal element, but the percentage is no larger than that in America or Europe. Advancing towards the Master, and claiming an audience, which was instantly granted, Jonathan, without much circumlocution, related the sum of the strange story he had just learnt from Wood, omitting nothing except a few trifling particulars, which he thought it politic to keep back; and, with this view, he said not a word of there being any probability of capturing the fugitive, but, on the contrary, roundly asserted that his informant had witnessed that person's escape. A little smothered cry broke from her lips—the curtains were thrown aside and a man stepped out. She sat there, a mark for boulevarders, the unconscious object of numberless wondering glances. ’ ‘In a somewhat roundabout fashion, if you ask me,’ came in a mutter from her old nurse, very much in her usual style. Luckily, she was bereft of consciousness, and was thus spared the additional misery of witnessing what afterwards befell him. She was drawn first by Miss Miniver, and then by her own natural interest, into a curious stratum of people who are busied with dreams of world progress, of great and fundamental changes, of a New Age that is to replace all the stresses and disorders of contemporary life. Her people live in Heng-Chow, in the Hu-nan province.
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