A brutal white, a faithful black, and Fear act out their part in this drama of the Solomon Islands. This is the story of Gleason and Maehoe and of Fear, who makes a bad third in any company. Henderson doesn’t really count, because he died of black-water fever some three weeks after Gleason met him. And old Sunaku--he was killed, later, when a British warship shelled his village for trying to cut off a trading schooner--is a very minor character. All you really have to remember is that Maehoe desired, passionately, to become a member of the Native Constabulary Force of the Solomon Islands Protectorate, and that Henderson was entirely too fond of one Biblical quotation.…
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