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time. Those eyes called him a Heiry Ape; he has persuaded himself
now that Mildred really called him that.

Meanwhile, Mildred goes to London. Many titled suitors
crowd around her. She flings herself into the social game, into wild
parties, anything to forget her obsession about Yank. But the eyes
haunt her. Everything else seems weak and futile. When she visits
Whitechapel, she gets no thrill out of the horrors. She is disgusted.
It all seems so sick and degraded compared to the vitality in Yank.
She suddenly gives it all up. She will go back to America at once.
She insists on sailing on the same vessel. On board she becomes excited
again, she wants to go below but her father has learned of the previous
incident and, fearful for her health, has cabled orders not to permit
her to go below again. He feels she is carrying her social service
whim to the extreme when she visits stokeholes.

Down below, Yank listens to Long's harrangues absentmindedly,
and tries to think it out helplessly.

At the end of the voyage, it is Mildred who on one pretext
or another finds out when the stoke's leave the ship, and manages to be
there, concealed behind freight. She sees Yank come down alone, fierce
and silent, glowering defiance at his mates who give him a wide berth,
Long following at his heels. And again she is excited and fascinated
and disturbed.

In a bar, Yank and Long drink. Yank asks Long to take him
to Fifth Avenue, where he has never been, where her kind live. Maybe
there he'll get a chance to fight back. Long promises to go there with
him the next Sunday, and they go. The swells are just coming from
church. Yank stares into a furriers window and sees a piece of monkey
fur displayed. This infuriates him. He starts to insult the men in