He should give me fifty
dollars for a recipe with its perfectly good natural history and
embellished with my own vegetable and floral decorations.
"In the meantime I think I might buy my worktable and possibly an
easel, so I can have real room to spread out my new material and
see how it would feel to do one drawing completely unhampered.
I'll order the table tonight, and then I'll begin on the books,
because I must have Saturday free; and I must be thinking about
the most attractive and interesting place I can take Donald to.
I just have to keep him interested until he gets going of his own
accord, because he shall beat Oka Sayye. I wouldn't let Donald
say it but I don't mind saying myself to myself with no one
present except myself that in all my life I have never seen
anything so masklike as the stolid little square head on that
Jap. I have never seen anything I dislike more than the oily,
stiff, black hair standing up on it like menacing bristles. I
have never had but one straight look deep into his eyes, but in
that look I saw the only thing that ever frightened me in looking
into a man's eyes in my whole life. And there is one thing that
I have to remember to caution Donald about. He must carry on
this contest in a perfectly open, fair, and aboveboard way, and
he simply must not antagonize Oka Sayye. There are so many of
the Japs. They all look so much alike, and there's a blood
brotherhood between them that will make them protect each other
to the death against any white man.
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