"When I first met him, the man thought he was dying, and for the time I really believe that he was honest.

Some men are honest when they feel unwell.
There was so little doubt in my mind that I went into the thing at once." "If you will go on with it I will stand by you," said Oscard shortly.
"All right; I think we two together are as good as any half-bred sharper on this coast, to put it gracefully." Jack Meredith lighted a fresh cigarette, and leant back with the somewhat exaggerated grace of movement which was in reality partly attributable to natural litheness.

For some time they smoked in silence, subject to the influence of the dreamy tropic night.

Across the river some belated bird was calling continuously and cautiously for its mate.
At times the splashing movements of a crocodile broke the smooth silence of the water.

Overhead the air was luminous with that night-glow which never speaks to the senses in latitudes above the teens.
There is something in man's nature that inclines him sympathetically--almost respectfully--towards a mental inferior.
Moreover, the feeling, whatever it may be, is rarely, if ever, found in women.