Chapter 14

⁠​​​‌​​​​‌‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌​​​​​​​​​‌‌‌​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​‌​​​​‌​‌​‌​​​‌​‌​‌‌​​‌‌⁠Peter Moore's curiosity regarding the motives which were sending Miss Amy Vost into Szechwan, most deplorable, most poverty-stricken of provinces, was satisfied before the Hankow had put astern the great turbulent city after which it had been named.

At Hankow the Hankow picked up the raft which it would tow all the way up to Ching-Fu. Upon this raft was a long, squat cabin, in and out of which pour