Besides, by the time they were off his hands, old McClintock would be dropping in to have his liver renovated.
All at once he recollected the fact that McClintock's copra plantation was down that way, somewhere in the South Seas; had an island of his own.

Perhaps he had heard of this Enschede.

Mac--the old gossip--knew about everything going on in that part of the world; and if Enschede was anything up to the picture the girl had drawn, McClintock would have heard of him, naturally.

He might solve the riddle.

All of which proves that the doctor also had his moments of distraction, with this difference: he was not distracted from his subject matter.
"So endeth the first lesson," he said.