CHAPTER XXIV. At last the panel swung back into the library. The policemen were closing in from the sides to intervene. I should lose every scrap of independence—even my self-respect. Me, I have a question for you first. This is a mere boy. “Okay, I guess. "The youth whom you delivered to Van Galgebrok,—Thames Darrell, is returned. I’ve no name for it yet. You are aware that Martin Chen has a crush on me; I think the whole school is painfully aware, but he’s harmless. ‘But can you? You don’t know Melusine for Mary Remenham’s daughter, any more than I do. Before he could draw in the rein, his steed—startled apparently by some object undistinguishable by the rider,—swerved with such suddenness as to unseat him, and precipitate him on the ground. 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. Saw the villain through the keyhole.
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