"It would be better for them to spend all or part of that money, in seeking closer connection with their Heavenly Father, than with the Brutes!" A buzz of approval swept the listeners.

That same buzz came irritatingly to the ears of a none-too-sprucely dressed young man who lay, with eyes shut, under the shifting shade of a giant palm, a hundred yards away.

He had not caught the phrase which inspired the applause--thanks to the confusion of street sounds and the multiple dry rattle of the palm-fronds and the whirring passage of a sea-plane which circled above park and bay.

But the buzz aroused him.
He had not been asleep.

Prone on his back, hat pulled over his upper face, he had been lying motionless there, for the best part of an hour.