I—I don’t understand,” the man faltered wearily. CHAPTER XX. ” “Okay. ’ ‘Who is that?’ demanded Lucilla eagerly. As she talked she made weak little gestures with her hands, and she thrust her face forward from her bent shoulders; and she peered sometimes at Ann Veronica and sometimes at a photograph of the Axenstrasse, near Fluelen, that hung upon the wall. ’ Noting the twinkle in her great-aunt’s eye, Melusine forebore to comment, grateful to Lucilla for adjuring Captain Roding to give an account of himself. ‘And I have a very good mind to kill you. “I think that’s the right name. Will you take it in to him?” The young man smiled in a superior manner. 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. He called it "The Man Who Could Not Go Home. " "No fear of that," rejoined Rowland: "such vermin never dare to show themselves in this privileged district.
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