CHAPTER XIV. ’ The lodgekeeper’s jaw fell open. CHAPTER XXVI Spurlock went out on his toes, careful lest the bamboo curtain rattle behind him. Restlessness, then, was the trouble, simple restlessness: home bored her. It was nearly one o’clock; but there were lights still in all her windows. "Aren't you afraid?" "Of what?"—serenely. The biological laboratory, perpetually viewing life as pairing and breeding and selection, and again pairing and breeding, seemed only a translated generalization of that assertion. Help—should she need it—from the natives was out of the question. It came to Spurlock suddenly that if something did not react in his favour inside of five minutes, he was done. Among his books, Plutarch's Lives, and the Histories of Great Commanders, appeared to have been frequently consulted; but the dust had gathered thickly upon the Carpenter's Manual, and a Treatise on Trigonometry and Geometry. But, though the latter was somewhat embarrassed by his burthen, he peremptorily declined Jonathan's offer of assistance. ’ ‘Unfair!’ echoed his junior. He awoke, strangely content. The great world outside! She stood motionless beside the trunk, deep in speculation; and thus the doctor found her.
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