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Dr
.
Coutras
felt
that
it
was
absurd
to
offer
expressions
of
regret
in
so
terrible
a
disaster
,
and
he
took
his
leave
.
Strickland
told
Tane
,
the
boy
,
to
lead
him
to
the
village
.
Dr
.
Coutras
paused
for
a
moment
,
and
then
he
addressed
himself
to
me
.
"
I
did
not
like
him
,
I
have
told
you
he
was
not
sympathetic
to
me
,
but
as
I
walked
slowly
down
to
Taravao
I
could
not
prevent
an
unwilling
admiration
for
the
stoical
courage
which
enabled
him
to
bear
perhaps
the
most
dreadful
of
human
afflictions
.
When
Tane
left
me
I
told
him
I
would
send
some
medicine
that
might
be
of
service
;
but
my
hope
was
small
that
Strickland
would
consent
to
take
it
,
and
even
smaller
that
,
if
he
did
,
it
would
do
him
good
.
I
gave
the
boy
a
message
for
Ata
that
I
would
come
whenever
she
sent
for
me
.
Life
is
hard
,
and
Nature
takes
sometimes
a
terrible
delight
in
torturing
her
children
.
It
was
with
a
heavy
heart
that
I
drove
back
to
my
comfortable
home
in
Papeete
.
"
For
a
long
time
none
of
us
spoke
.
"
But
Ata
did
not
send
for
me
,
"
the
doctor
went
on
,
at
last
,
"
and
it
chanced
that
I
did
not
go
to
that
part
of
the
island
for
a
long
time
.
I
had
no
news
of
Strickland
.
Once
or
twice
I
heard
that
Ata
had
been
to
Papeete
to
buy
painting
materials
,
but
I
did
not
happen
to
see
her
.
More
than
two
years
passed
before
I
went
to
Taravao
again
,
and
then
it
was
once
more
to
see
the
old
chiefess
.
I
asked
them
whether
they
had
heard
anything
of
Strickland
.
By
now
it
was
known
everywhere
that
he
had
leprosy
.
First
Tane
,
the
boy
,
had
left
the
house
,
and
then
,
a
little
time
afterwards
,
the
old
woman
and
her
grandchild
.
Strickland
and
Ata
were
left
alone
with
their
babies
.
No
one
went
near
the
plantation
,
for
,
as
you
know
,
the
natives
have
a
very
lively
horror
of
the
disease
,
and
in
the
old
days
when
it
was
discovered
the
sufferer
was
killed
;
but
sometimes
,
when
the
village
boys
were
scrambling
about
the
hills
,
they
would
catch
sight
of
the
white
man
,
with
his
great
red
beard
,
wandering
about
.
They
fled
in
terror
.
Sometimes
Ata
would
come
down
to
the
village
at
night
and
arouse
the
trader
,
so
that
he
might
sell
her
various
things
of
which
she
stood
in
need
.
She
knew
that
the
natives
looked
upon
her
with
the
same
horrified
aversion
as
they
looked
upon
Strickland
,
and
she
kept
out
of
their
way
.
Once
some
women
,
venturing
nearer
than
usual
to
the
plantation
,
saw
her
washing
clothes
in
the
brook
,
and
they
threw
stones
at
her
.
After
that
the
trader
was
told
to
give
her
the
message
that
if
she
used
the
brook
again
men
would
come
and
burn
down
her
house
.
"
"
Brutes
,
"
I
said
.
"
Mais
non
,
mon
cher
monsieur
,
men
are
always
the
same
.
Fear
makes
them
cruel
.
.
.
.
I
decided
to
see
Strickland
,
and
when
I
had
finished
with
the
chiefess
asked
for
a
boy
to
show
me
the
way
.
But
none
would
accompany
me
,
and
I
was
forced
to
find
it
alone
.
"
When
Dr
.
Coutras
arrived
at
the
plantation
he
was
seized
with
a
feeling
of
uneasiness
.
Though
he
was
hot
from
walking
,
he
shivered
.
There
was
something
hostile
in
the
air
which
made
him
hesitate
,
and
he
felt
that
invisible
forces
barred
his
way
.
Unseen
hands
seemed
to
draw
him
back
.
No
one
would
go
near
now
to
gather
the
cocoa
-
nuts
,
and
they
lay
rotting
on
the
ground
.
Everywhere
was
desolation
.
The
bush
was
encroaching
,
and
it
looked
as
though
very
soon
the
primeval
forest
would
regain
possession
of
that
strip
of
land
which
had
been
snatched
from
it
at
the
cost
of
so
much
labour
.
He
had
the
sensation
that
here
was
the
abode
of
pain
.
As
he
approached
the
house
he
was
struck
by
the
unearthly
silence
,
and
at
first
he
thought
it
was
deserted
.
Then
he
saw
Ata
.
She
was
sitting
on
her
haunches
in
the
lean
-
to
that
served
her
as
kitchen
,
watching
some
mess
cooking
in
a
pot
.
Near
her
a
small
boy
was
playing
silently
in
the
dirt
.
She
did
not
smile
when
she
saw
him
.
"
I
have
come
to
see
Strickland
,
"
he
said
.
