Ghost of the Thames
“She could no longer see the captain, but she knew he was going in the right direction.
He had gone off after the dark-skinned dockworker, and Sophy had reluctantly complied with his order to wait inside the carriage for him. She waited, angrily eying the stone-faced driver standing guard outside the door. The few words she’d exchanged with the stranger played over and over in her mind.
After Captain Seymour went to meet with those men who called to him, Sophy had every intention of remaining in...side the carriage. But when she realized that she understood the conversation of the men who were passing--and that they were not speaking English--she was not about to sit idly inside. Climbing out, she’d greeted them and asked what language they were speaking. One answered that it was the language of India.
That was when one of the men had approached her. The stranger stared at her as if she were a ghost. She’d asked him in his own language if he knew her. It was then that his excitement had overwhelmed him.MoreLess
He had gone off after the dark-skinned dockworker, and Sophy had reluctantly complied with his order to wait inside the carriage for him. She waited, angrily eying the stone-faced driver standing guard outside the door. The few words she’d exchanged with the stranger played over and over in her mind.
After Captain Seymour went to meet with those men who called to him, Sophy had every intention of remaining in...side the carriage. But when she realized that she understood the conversation of the men who were passing--and that they were not speaking English--she was not about to sit idly inside. Climbing out, she’d greeted them and asked what language they were speaking. One answered that it was the language of India.
That was when one of the men had approached her. The stranger stared at her as if she were a ghost. She’d asked him in his own language if he knew her. It was then that his excitement had overwhelmed him.MoreLess
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