She grew perhaps a shade paler, and she glanced out into the street, where her four-wheeler cab, laden with luggage, was still waiting. She turned her cheek to the cold sill; and by and by the sill grew warm and wet with tears. Anna stared back at every one with undaunted composure. “I have made no progress with my work,” she said slowly, “and the money was gone. Everybody, he felt, must be listening behind their papers. Winifred receives two Proposals. He was bringing the sing-song girl to the hotel! The strange cortège presently vanished below the window-sill. You have the look in your eyes to-night which you had that day, the look of a frightened child. “I don’t think I CAN do that,” she said. You seem to want this chap out of Canton. To walk beside him, dressed akin to him, rucksacked and companionable, was bliss in itself; each step she took was like stepping once more across the threshold of heaven. 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. What she admired in her man was his resolute defense of his opinions. The knots and broken pale that made the garden-fence scalable, and gave access to the fields behind, were still to be traced. " For some reason she did not then understand, Ruth did not offer the information that Taber had another name.
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