To find the incentive! But how?
Thither and yon the idea roved, seeking the way.

But always this new phase in life which civilization called convention threw up barrier after barrier.
She could not go to him with a preachment against strong drink; she knew from experience that such a plan would be wasted effort.

Had she not seen them go forth with tracts in their pockets and grins in their beards?
To set fire to his imagination, to sting his sense of chivalry into being, to awaken his manhood, she must present some irresistible project.

She recalled that day of the typhoon and the sloop crashing on the outer reefs.

The heroism of two beach combers had saved all on board and their own manhood as well.
"Are you returning to Hong-Kong to-morrow by the day boat ?" For a moment Ruth was astonished at the sound of the spinster's voice.