" "I know where she will be found, and how," rejoined Jack with a shudder. One morning, as he took his stand on the Hong-Kong packet dock to ambush the possible tourist, he witnessed the arrival of a tubby schooner, dirty gray and blotched as though she had run through fire. Unless we can get some optimism into him, he'll probably start this all over again when he gets on his feet. The entrance was barred against them; and they had the additional mortification of hearing Sheppard's loud laughter at their discomfiture. "What!" she exclaimed, almost choked with passion,—"I advised you to burthen yourself with that idle and good-for-nothing pauper, who'm you ought rather to send to the workhouse than maintain at your own expense, did I! I advised you to take him as an apprentice; and, so far from getting the regular fee with him, to give him a salary? I advised you to feed him, and clothe him, and treat him like his betters; to put up with his insolence, and wink at his faults? I counselled all this, I suppose. At six o'clock, the wicket was shut; and at nine, the jail was altogether locked up.
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