But what had young Spurlock done for Ah Cum in the space of twenty-four hours that had engaged Ah Cum's loyalty, not only engaged it but put it on guard? For O'Higgins, receiving light from the next table, had no doubt regarding the identity of the subject of this old maid's observations. “How’d you know it was me?” He looked conspiratorially into the room for hidden informants. Not the most stringent search, conducted all morning, turned up one solitary sheet. The doctor reached over and laid his hand upon Spurlock's heart. "We were close upon him when he suddenly disappeared. ‘Valade, if you don’t mind. I’m that shamed to confess it, miss, but it were then I thought of Martha. Please don’t tell anyone, mister. 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. You must not, however, accompany me, Jack.
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