I write feelingly, for T had passed the telephone test, and was at the jetty at 10 pin, the hour advised by the agents. "The boat actually came at 2.30 a.m, and my indignation at hearing that it had been' anchored for hours just out of sight burst its bounds. I addressed to the stillness of the night a few observations on steamer agents, and noticed a sad-eyed official taking notes, 9s if he bad hoped for better things. My name, I found later, iwas that morning erased from the Samurai register, and I must bes all over again.
As I waited for the steamer, about 30 people landed at the jetty from an entertainment on one the cruisers. It was midnight, pouring eats and dogs, and there were only two carriages within hail, both occupied by poor wretches waiting for the steamer. I heard one young clergyman call loudly for a layman to make a few remarks in language befitting the occasion, but the sweet woman by his side' checked him. Think of it, you pampered Shanghai females! This angel only remarked, in a voice that breathed goodwill to all men, on her pleasure at getting the unexpected exercise, and her joy in knowing that the dear carriages mafoos and ricsha-pollers were asleep on such a bad night. For she had only a mile to walk, and her satin shoes assisted rapid I shall go again. I shall pass the telephone and jetty tests, but if one of the steamer agents expires doorstep 1 somehow don't think that I shall wear mourning.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.