As he reached the bottom Azalea turned her head. For a moment it was impossible to move.
“Azalea!” he exclaimed.
She ran towards him and felt his arms go round her. It was like reaching Heaven. Her prayers had been answered and she was safe!
As H.M.S. Fury carried them back to Hong Kong, sitting in a cabin with Lord Sheldon, Azalea learnt what had happened.
Next door Kai Yin was sitting beside a bunk on which Mr. Chang lay with his arm bandaged.
It hardly seemed possible that he should be alive after Azalea had known that the pirates had set the junk on fire, having looted everything they considered valuable.
“It was the burning junk we saw first,” Lord Sheldon told her. “One of the sailors drew our attention to it and Captain Marriott was immediately suspicious that it might be the
