Chapter 19

Chapter 19

Lian's only outing in Lanzhou was to a gynecologist and insisted on doing it alone.

On her return to the hotel her father and her uncle were waiting anxiously.

"Nothing happened, I just walked about ten blocks," Said the girl laughing. "I needed to leave this room for while.”

At that moment they heard knocks on the door of the room. Instinctively Fang took the hilt of his dagger and his brother a small revolver.

“Who is it?” Asked the father.

"In the lobby of the hotel is Captain Chou." Reported a voice was that they recognized as the waitress's.

Lian descended excitedly and upon meeting him in the lobby gave a hug to his bewildered comrade.

After an emotional farewell to his father and Uncle Zhou Lian began her return to her base in Beijing from where she had left months before. The haphazard circumstances of her long journey had made her a very different woman from the one who had then left ... in more ways than one.