Word: lueli
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Lueli knows that when a man loses his god it is likely that he himself will soon be lost. He grows morose. Mr. Fortune rebuilds the hut, sets things to rights, tries to encourage his acolyte. But he can accomplish nothing. Man and master are spiritually wasting away. The man's duty grows clear. He must restore Lueli...
This he does, with a knife and a small stick. Then, having provided at least one of the natives of Fanua with a divinity, he leaves the island. He is sorry to desert his only convert, but hearing Lueli as he babbles happy confidences into the wooden ear of God, Mr. Fortune decides that he has done the wisest thing...
Lazy, fantastic Clergyman Fortune leaves St. Fabien parish, whither he has come from a London countinghouse, and journeys to Fanua, an island whose Christian population is even smaller than that of his first missionary situation. At Fanua he succeeds in converting one of the natives, by name, Lueli...
...indigent individual becomes Mr. Fortune's shadow, docile and domestic Friday to the clergyman's unstrenuous Crusoe. He idolizes Mr. Fortune in place of the grotesque wooden figure which had previously had that honor. But eventually the demands of Christian religion, slender as they were, grow irksome. Lueli dwindles and repines. He goes to the forest in off moments and bows down in the ancestral fashion to images...
When Mr. Fortune discovers the lapse, he rebukes Lueli, lays hands on aboriginal deity. An earthquake and conflagration ensue. Lueli rescues Mr. Fortune, but the little wooden god becomes a cinder...