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'
He
shook
hands
on
the
threshold
,
peered
into
my
room
under
his
raised
arm
.
"
Sleep
well
.
And
to-morrow
we
must
do
something
practical
--
practical
...
"
'
Though
his
own
room
was
beyond
mine
I
saw
him
return
the
way
he
came
.
He
was
going
back
to
his
butterflies
.
'
'
Ido
n't
suppose
any
of
you
have
ever
heard
of
Patusan
?
'
Marlow
resumed
,
after
a
silence
occupied
in
the
careful
lighting
of
a
cigar
.
'
It
does
not
matter
;
there
's
many
a
heavenly
body
in
the
lot
crowding
upon
us
of
a
night
that
mankind
had
never
heard
of
,
it
being
outside
the
sphere
of
its
activities
and
of
no
earthly
importance
to
anybody
but
to
the
astronomers
who
are
paid
to
talk
learnedly
about
its
composition
,
weight
,
path
--
the
irregularities
of
its
conduct
,
the
aberrations
of
its
light
--
a
sort
of
scientific
scandal-mongering
.
Thus
with
Patusan
.
It
was
referred
to
knowingly
in
the
inner
government
circles
in
Batavia
,
especially
as
to
its
irregularities
and
aberrations
,
and
it
was
known
by
name
to
some
few
,
very
few
,
in
the
mercantile
world
.
Nobody
,
however
,
had
been
there
,
and
I
suspect
no
one
desired
to
go
there
in
person
--
just
as
an
astronomer
,
I
should
fancy
,
would
strongly
object
to
being
transported
into
a
distant
heavenly
body
,
where
,
parted
from
his
earthly
emoluments
,
he
would
be
bewildered
by
the
view
of
an
unfamiliar
heaven
.
However
,
neither
heavenly
bodies
nor
astronomers
have
anything
to
do
with
Patusan
.
It
was
Jim
who
went
there
.
I
only
meant
you
to
understand
that
had
Stein
arranged
to
send
him
into
a
star
of
the
fifth
magnitude
the
change
could
not
have
been
greater
.
He
left
his
earthly
failings
behind
him
and
what
sort
of
reputation
he
had
,
and
there
was
a
totally
new
set
of
conditions
for
his
imaginative
faculty
to
work
upon
.
Entirely
new
,
entirely
remarkable
.
And
he
got
hold
of
them
in
a
remarkable
way
.
'
Stein
was
the
man
who
knew
more
about
Patusan
than
anybody
else
.
More
than
was
known
in
the
government
circles
I
suspect
.
I
have
no
doubt
he
had
been
there
,
either
in
his
butterfly-hunting
days
or
later
on
,
when
he
tried
in
his
incorrigible
way
to
season
with
a
pinch
of
romance
the
fattening
dishes
of
his
commercial
kitchen
.
There
were
very
few
places
in
the
Archipelago
he
had
not
seen
in
the
original
dusk
of
their
being
,
before
light
(
and
even
electric
light
)
had
been
carried
into
them
for
the
sake
of
better
morality
and
--
and
--
well
--
the
greater
profit
too
.
It
was
at
breakfast
of
the
morning
following
our
talk
about
Jim
that
he
mentioned
the
place
,
after
I
had
quoted
poor
Brierly
's
remark
:
"
Let
him
creep
twenty
feet
underground
and
stay
there
.
"
He
looked
up
at
me
with
interested
attention
,
as
though
I
had
been
a
rare
insect
.
"
This
could
be
done
too
,
"
he
remarked
,
sipping
his
coffee
.
"
Bury
him
in
some
sort
,
"
I
explained
.
"
One
does
n't
like
to
do
it
of
course
,
but
it
would
be
the
best
thing
,
seeing
what
he
is
.
"
"
Yes
;
he
is
young
,
"
Stein
mused
.
"
The
youngest
human
being
now
in
existence
,
"
I
affirmed
.
"
Schon
.
There
's
Patusan
,
"
he
went
on
in
the
same
tone
...
"
And
the
woman
is
dead
now
,
"
he
added
incomprehensibly
.
'
Of
course
I
do
n't
know
that
story
;
I
can
only
guess
that
once
before
Patusan
had
been
used
as
a
grave
for
some
sin
,
transgression
,
or
misfortune
.
It
is
impossible
to
suspect
Stein
.
The
only
woman
that
had
ever
existed
for
him
was
the
Malay
girl
he
called
"
My
wife
the
princess
,
"
or
,
more
rarely
,
in
moments
of
expansion
,
"
the
mother
of
my
Emma
.
"
Who
was
the
woman
he
had
mentioned
in
connection
with
Patusan
I
ca
n't
say
;
but
from
his
allusions
I
understand
she
had
been
an
educated
and
very
good-looking
Dutch-Malay
girl
,
with
a
tragic
or
perhaps
only
a
pitiful
history
,
whose
most
painful
part
no
doubt
was
her
marriage
with
a
Malacca
Portuguese
who
had
been
clerk
in
some
commercial
house
in
the
Dutch
colonies
.
I
gathered
from
Stein
that
this
man
was
an
unsatisfactory
person
in
more
ways
than
one
,
all
being
more
or
less
indefinite
and
offensive
.
It
was
solely
for
his
wife
's
sake
that
Stein
had
appointed
him
manager
of
Stein
&
Co.
'
s
trading
post
in
Patusan
;
but
commercially
the
arrangement
was
not
a
success
,
at
any
rate
for
the
firm
,
and
now
the
woman
had
died
,
Stein
was
disposed
to
try
another
agent
there
.
The
Portuguese
,
whose
name
was
Cornelius
,
considered
himself
a
very
deserving
but
ill-used
person
,
entitled
by
his
abilities
to
a
better
position
.
This
man
Jim
would
have
to
relieve
.
"
But
I
do
n't
think
he
will
go
away
from
the
place
,
"
remarked
Stein
.
"
That
has
nothing
to
do
with
me
.
It
was
only
for
the
sake
of
the
woman
that
I.
.
.
But
as
I
think
there
is
a
daughter
left
,
I
shall
let
him
,
if
he
likes
to
stay
,
keep
the
old
house
.
"
'
Patusan
is
a
remote
district
of
a
native-ruled
state
,
and
the
chief
settlement
bears
the
same
name
.
At
a
point
on
the
river
about
forty
miles
from
the
sea
,
where
the
first
houses
come
into
view
,
there
can
be
seen
rising
above
the
level
of
the
forests
the
summits
of
two
steep
hills
very
close
together
,
and
separated
by
what
looks
like
a
deep
fissure
,
the
cleavage
of
some
mighty
stroke
.
As
a
matter
of
fact
,
the
valley
between
is
nothing
but
a
narrow
ravine
;
the
appearance
from
the
settlement
is
of
one
irregularly
conical
hill
split
in
two
,
and
with
the
two
halves
leaning
slightly
apart
.
On
the
third
day
after
the
full
,
the
moon
,
as
seen
from
the
open
space
in
front
of
Jim
's
house
(
he
had
a
very
fine
house
in
the
native
style
when
I
visited
him
)
,
rose
exactly
behind
these
hills
,
its
diffused
light
at
first
throwing
the
two
masses
into
intensely
black
relief
,
and
then
the
nearly
perfect
disc
,
glowing
ruddily
,
appeared
,
gliding
upwards
between
the
sides
of
the
chasm
,
till
it
floated
away
above
the
summits
,
as
if
escaping
from
a
yawning
grave
in
gentle
triumph
.
"
Wonderful
effect
,
"
said
Jim
by
my
side
.
"
Worth
seeing
.
Is
it
not
?
"
'
And
this
question
was
put
with
a
note
of
personal
pride
that
made
me
smile
,
as
though
he
had
had
a
hand
in
regulating
that
unique
spectacle
.
He
had
regulated
so
many
things
in
Patusan
--
things
that
would
have
appeared
as
much
beyond
his
control
as
the
motions
of
the
moon
and
the
stars
.
'
It
was
inconceivable
.
That
was
the
distinctive
quality
of
the
part
into
which
Stein
and
I
had
tumbled
him
unwittingly
,
with
no
other
notion
than
to
get
him
out
of
the
way
;
out
of
his
own
way
,
be
it
understood
.
