The memory of the Californian stranger was perpetuated in the game of poker--which became popular in the capital of Celebes from that time--and in a powerful cocktail, the recipe for which is transmitted--in the Kwang-tung dialect--from head boy to head boy of the Chinese servants in the Sunda Hotel even to this day.

Willems was a connoisseur in the drink and an adept at the game.

Of those accomplishments he was moderately proud.

Of the confidence reposed in him by Hudig--the master--he was boastfully and obtrusively proud.

This arose from his great benevolence, and from an exalted sense of his duty to himself and the world at large.
He experienced that irresistible impulse to impart information which is inseparable from gross ignorance.