So far history.  And now a moment for conjecture.  Tembinok’ confused habitually, not only the attributes and merits of his father and his uncle, but their diverse personal appearance.  Before he had even spoken, or thought to speak, of Tembinatake, he had told me often of a tall, lean father, skilled in war, and his own schoolmaster in genealogy and island arts.  How if both were fathers, one natural, one adoptive?  How if the heir of Tembaitake, like the heir of Tembinok’ himself, were not a son, but an adopted nephew?  How if the founder of the monarchy, while he worked for his brother, worked at the same time for the child of his loins?  How if on the death of Tembaitake, the two stronger natures, father and son, king and kingmaker, clashed, and Tembinok’, when he drove out his uncle, drove out the author of his days?  Here is at least a tragedy four-square.

The king took us on board in his own gig, dressed for the occasion in the naval uniform.  He had little to say, he refused refreshments, shook us briefly by the hand, and went ashore again.  That night the palm-tops of Apemama had dipped behind the sea, and the schooner sailed solitary under the stars.

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