Then he contented himself with trotting at Matauare's heels, eyeing him and sniffing him suspiciously.
"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..