’ Melusine’s voice petered out. ‘Poor Gerald has been very busy about your affairs this last week. All the rest is humbug and delicacy. I let him take me to the English Embassy, and we went through some sort of a ceremony. But two weeks later he returned. I heard John was talking about you again from Jenny McIntyre. But her mind was ruffled, and its mirror-like surface of satisfaction was not easily restored. 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. Why should he stare at her in this fashion?—for all the world as if she had pointed a pistol at his head? CHAPTER III He had said it, spoken it like that … his own name! After all these weeks of trying to obliterate even the memory of it!… to have given it to this girl without her asking! The thought of peril cleared a space in the alcoholic fog. Would you tell her … now?" his eyes flaming with mockery.
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