” He said. ‘Your mystery lady, I mean. He was vaguely uneasy; he knew not what about. ‘That’s what started the fracas,’ Gerald admitted ruefully, nursing his injured hand as he recalled it. Of course she had taken the boy as her lover, acting as his muse. 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. If that's true, she's not long for this world. I sit back now, letting life slip by and musing upon it; and I find my loneliness sweet. "Sir Rowland, I salute you as your nephew. It moved a trifle, stepping back and lifting an arm to rub the sleeve against the glass. "Far from, it, Sir.
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