ABSTRACT
AFTER a long absence, George Carlyle arrived in Singapore to relieve John Finlay. Of this, Johnnie felt glad. He liked and admired Finlay, but he always felt that he was an exacting and almost unfeeling master, who expected a perfection of service to which it was practically impossible to attain. Carlyle was a more human and sympathetic chief under whom to work. Moreover, there was that phenomenon of his seventy-five dollars a month salary which was a joke of Finlay’s that was now becoming absolutely overgrown.
