It struck the major that she was very young. Lucy grabbed his shirtsleeve, whispering on tiptoe. And talking of every conceivable thing. To hand the key back in silence was like offering a lie. ’ ‘Ah, that explains your surprise. When other kids got sick at school, they always had Moms who would rescue them within minutes. 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. There was a lock, apparently more than a foot wide, strongly plated, and girded to the door with thick iron hoops. Over these boards the two arms of a guide-post serve to direct the wayfarer—on the right hand to the neighbouring villages of Neasdon and Kingsbury, and on the left to the Edgeware Road and the healthy heights of Hampstead.
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