He was also aware that all his arguments would
shatter themselves against her resolutions. 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. ’
‘I think you—’ He broke off abruptly, astonished at what he had been about to
say. ‘You will arrest me? For—for—’
‘Trespass, theft and spying,’ snapped Hilary. If I am to die in the attempt, then so be it. The fact that it was her trusted
friend making illicit love to her remained, in spite of all her effort, an
insignificant thing in her mind. The
queer phase of the dream was this, she was at no time a woman; she was
symbolical of something, and he followed to learn what this something was. I felt as though I had
bandaged eyes. The island had evidently grown round this lagoon,
approached it gradually from the volcanic upheaval—an island of coral and lava. "
At this moment, Rachel and Blueskin returned. Here, then, but for the time and place, might be another Sidney Carton. She attacked me with a carving-knife, and,
when I had disarmed her, the jade bit off a couple of fingers from my left hand.
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