’ ‘I have no game. "But McClintock agrees to take you both—because he's as big a fool as I am. I finally got my own set of house keys when I turned eleven. "I wouldn't give a betel-nut for a man who wouldn't stick to his guns, if he believed himself in the right. ‘What do you want with me? Why did you catch me?’ ‘You intrigue me,’ he told her frankly. A delicate flush of colour streamed into her cheeks. I may say that the amount of the annuity I propose to allow you is two hundred a year. But, egad! I believe he will. You may command my services at any time. Find that boy. 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. Perhaps he had had money in the coat, back in Hong-Kong, and had been robbed without knowing it. It presented itself in the likeness of a great, gray, dull world—a brutal, superstitious, confused, and wrong-headed world, that hurt people and limited people unaccountably. They were loath to admit to the public that the case would be closed in a few years for sheer lack of forensic evidence. ’ His features relaxed again and he grinned.
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