"It's all right, Satan; it's all right," Sheldon assured him. "That good
fella belong along me."
But Satan dogged the Tahitian's movements for a full hour before he made
up his mind that the man was an appurtenance of the place. Then he
turned his attention to the three house-boys, cornering Ornfiri in the
kitchen and rushing him against the hot stove, stripping the lava-lava
from Lalaperu when that excited youth climbed a veranda-post, and
following Viaburi on top the billiard-table, where the battle raged until
Joan managed a rescue.
CHAPTER IX--AS BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN
It was Satan's inexhaustible energy and good spirits that most impressed
them. His teeth seemed perpetually to ache with desire, and in lieu of
black legs he husked the cocoanuts that fell from the trees in the
compound, kept the enclosure clear of intruding hens, and made a hostile
acquaintance with every boss-boy who came to report. He was unable to
forget the torment of his puppyhood, wherein everlasting hatred of the
black had been woven into the fibres of consciousness; and such a terror
did he make himself that Sheldon was forced to shut him up in the living
room when, for any reason, strange natives were permitted in the
compound. This always hurt Satan's feelings and fanned his wrath, so
that even the house-boys had to watch out for him when he was first
released.
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