Shalford
says—the accidental conquering the essential. ‘She would not tell me. He did not play golf, but took his exercise on
horseback, which was also unsympathetic. ’
Triumph soared in Gerald’s chest. Attracted by the odour of
the latter dainty, a hungry cat had contrived to scratch open the paper in which it
was wrapped, displaying the following words in large characters:—"THE
HISTORY OF THE FOUR KINGS, OR CHILD'S BEST GUIDE TO THE
GALLOWS. When he
finally telegraphed his startling information to Hong-Kong, it was too late for
O'Higgins to act. He had diverged only a little from the truth when he said that his chief interest
in life was women. Martin was the only person to directly address Lucy again,
trying to reassure her that “real vampires melt in direct
sunlight. To preach a fine sermon every Sunday so that he would lose neither the art nor
the impulse; and this child, in secret rebellion, taking it down in long hand
during odd hours in the week! Preaching grandiloquently before a few score
natives who understood little beyond the gestures, for the single purpose of
warding off disintegration! It reminded the doctor of a stubborn retreat; from
barricade to barricade, grimly fighting to keep the enemy at bay, that insidious
enemy of the white man in the South Seas—inertia. To
buy the freedom of a poor little Chinese slave-girl! For what was the sing-song
girl but a slave, the double slave of custom and of men? Ruth wanted to know
keenly what had impelled the idea. "The sums lavished upon those
people are perfectly disgraceful, and I should be enchanted to see them hooted
from the stage. This double buffetting had sharpened her shrewdness and insight. "
But as no answer was returned to the summons, though it was again, and more
peremptorily, repeated, Baptist seized a mallet from a bystander and burst open
the door.
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