In order to guard against accidents or surprises, watchmen, or scouts, (as they were styled,) were stationed at the three main outlets of the sanctuary ready to give the signal in the manner just described: bars were erected, which, in case of emergency; could be immediately stretched across the streets: doors were attached to the alleys; and were never opened without due precautions; gates were affixed to the courts, wickets to the gates, and bolts to the wickets. “If I do,” he said. “Yes,” she answered, looking away. “But Sir John?” he exclaimed. He could only wonder that this amazing thing had remained so long a secret to him. But perhaps I had better get a room in an hotel to-night and look round. "If I had my old tools with me, we'd soon master this obstacle," he muttered. One of his chair coolies had witnessed the transportation of Spurlock by stretcher to the sampan in the canal. She and I were very close. Unless there was some real metal in the young fool, some hidden strength with which to breast the current, Ruth would become a millstone around his neck and soon he would become to her an object of pity and contempt. Don’t say anything, she thought to herself, say nothing more, Martin. This niggardliness compelled him to cross and recross streets. The intoxicating sense of novelty had given place to a more business-like mood. CHAPTER XXVI Spurlock went out on his toes, careful lest the bamboo curtain rattle behind him.
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