” He looked
down at his heavy Sears work boots as Mrs. Abruptly he gripped her wrist. Then, even as they stood there, the room was
plunged into darkness. Her
eyes flashed and she withdrew the dagger, pulling away from him. "Did you ever hear me whine?"
"No," admitted McClintock
"You've no objection to my dropping in again later, after your guests go?"
"No. I refused to sign a petition in his behalf to the Recorder; not from any ill-will to
him, but because it was prepared by a person whom I particularly dislike—
Captain Darrell. Ennison
seemed to feel already the shadow of tragedy approaching. For a few minutes, she appeared scarcely sensible of his
presence. There it is. All of us were fussy, colicky babies from what she tells
me. Across the blackboard the colored chalks flew like flights of variously
tinted rockets as diagram after diagram flickered into being. We
won’t drag you away until you’ve been through the place from top to bottom. 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.
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