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She was a good soul, much too good, in fact, and her efforts to live up to requirements were not only ludicrous but exasperating. Sara was quite serene about her, however. She made no excuses for the old lady; in fact, she appeared to be quite devoted to her. Booth was beginning to appreciate something of the horror the Wrandalls must have felt when Challis took unto himself a Gooch.
There's a suggestion of the Methodist pulpit about him. Doesn't appear in the shop much, and when he does, always looks as if he'd sooner sell you a Bible than a bottle of whisky." "Ah, yes! I know," said Challis. "I daresay you're right, Elmer; but it will be difficult to persuade this child to answer any questions his examiners may put to him." "Surely he must be open to reason," roared Elmer.
By the end of the week the murder of Challis Wrandall was forgotten by all save the police. The inquest was over, the law was baffled, the city was serenely waiting for its next sensation. No one cared. Leslie Wrandall went down to the steamer to see his sister-in-law off for Europe. "Good-bye, Miss Castleton," he said, as he shook the hand of the slim young Englishwoman at parting.
When I came in, he insisted that I should come to lunch with him at Challis Court. I consented, but stipulated that I must be back at Pym by three o'clock to accompany the Wonder for his afternoon walk. Challis looked at me curiously, but allowed the stipulation. We hardly spoke as we walked down the hill the habit of silence had grown upon me, but after lunch Challis spoke out his mind.
Not so. True it is that to-day all the men are in the bush binding FALA leaves around the coconut trees, else do the rats steal up and eat the buds and clusters of little nuts. And because Nalia, thy wife, is away at the other White Man's house no woman cometh inside the door." Challis laughed. "O evil-minded people of Nukunono! And must I, thy PAPALAGI, be parched with thirst because of this?"
The Wonder began his last volume of the Encyclopædia one Wednesday afternoon soon after lunch, and on Thursday morning, Challis was continually in and out of the room watching the child's progress, and noting his nearness to the end of the colossal task he had undertaken.
Can't you construct a story from that?" Even then I began to cast my story in a slightly biographical form. I wrote half a dozen chapters, and read them to Challis. "Magnificent, my dear fellow," was his comment, "magnificent; but no one will believe it." I had been carried away by my own prose, and with the natural vanity of the author, I resented intensely his criticism.
"Quite, quite," murmured Challis, and after a short silence he added: "You think he will deteriorate, that his faculties will decay prematurely?" "I should say there could be no doubt of it," replied Lewes. "Ah! well. I'll go down and have a look at him, one day next week," said Challis; but he did not go till the middle of October.
Certainly they include multitudes of doctors, lawyers, professors, scientists, magistrates, clergymen, close students, keen intellects, even such men as Alfred Russell Wallace, Profs. Morgan, Marley, Challis, William Carpenter, and Edward Cox.
So he thought, anyhow. You see, Challis was "a fool" at least so his pretty, violet-eyed wife had told him that afternoon with a bitter and contemptuous ring in her voice when he had brought another man's letter written to her and with impulsive and jealous haste had asked her to explain.
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