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CHAPTGH 3CII Continued.
Blia leaned her dark head asainst hli
blue-clad ihoulder and drew th vcroll
from hla trembling fingers.
"I wind jour words about my heart."
ah said. "Waiting bvat. I'erhaps the
vil time will withdraw. I have prayed
to the Chrlitlan Qod concernlag It. But
your cyca are auguatly wearied. Let me
read to you a while."
He aeated himself on the mat, hla
guunt hands buried in his olceves, and,
nuffLng the wick In the uuUon, ahe began
to read the archaio g-raa-wrltlng." It
vai the Ehundal Zatuwa of Kyuao Moro.
"Be not samurai through the wearing of
two awards, but day and night have a
care to bring no reproach on the name.
.When you cross your threshold and pass
ut through the gate, go as one who shall
never return again. Thus shall you be
ready for every adventure. The Buddhist
ts forever to renember the five command
ments and the samurai the laws of chiv
alry. "All born as samurai, men and women,
re taught from childhood that fidelity
must never be forgotten. And woman Is
ever taught that this, with submlbnlon,
la her chief duty. If In unexpected strait
tier weak heart forsakes fidelity, all her
ther virtues will not atom.
"Samurai, nieu and women, the young
and the old, regulate their conduct accord
ing to the precepts of Buuhldo, and a
samurai, without hesitation, sacrifices life
and family for lord and country."
CM APT Kit 1.111.
Vtkfa Barbara. Awoke.
When Barbara awoke next morning she
lay for a moment staring open-eyed from
her big pillow at the whlto wall above,
where a hanlng-ishelf projected to guard
the sleeper from falling plaster In earth
quake. The room was filled with a soft
light that filtered In through the split-bamboo
blinds. Then she retneinhered ; It was
Bar first whole day In Japun.
From a dUtance .hlfch and clear, she
beard a strain of bugles from some s-juad
of soldiers going to barracks, or perhaps
Vi the parade-ground, where, she remem
bered, an Imperial review of troops waa
to be held that morning.
6he felt full of gay insouciance, a glad
lightness of Joy that she had never felt
before. Slipping a thin rose-colored robe
over her nightgown, she threw open the
window and leaned out.
As she stood there bathed In the sun
light, her hands dividing the curtains. Bar
bara madd a gracious part of the glimmer
ing setting. Her thick, ruddy hair sprang
curling from her strongly modeled fore
head. nd fell about her white shoulders,
a warm reddish muss apalnst the deli
cately tinted curtain. There was a thor
oughbred stralfe-htnesa tn the lines of tno
tall figure. In the curve of the cheek and
the round directness of the rhln; and her
ees. bent on the lucent green, were the
color of brown sea water under sapphire
cloud shadows.
Barbara etarted auddenly, to see on the
lawn Just below her window, a figure
thiee feet high, with a rouud. cropped
h'ad. gaxlng at her from solemn. In
quiring countenance. He wore a much-
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-HZiSlLL "CGNTAJff
worn but clean kimono, and his infantile
toes clutched the thonga of clogs so large
that his feet seemed to be set on spacious
wooden platforms. The youngster bent
double and staggeringly righted himself
with a staccato "O-hayol"
Barbara gave an Inarticulate gasp; In
face of his sombre dignity she did not dare
to laugh: "How do you do?" she said
"fo you live here?"
"No," he replied. "I lives In a other
houses."
"Oh!" exclaimed Barbara, aghast at his
command of English. "What Is your
name?"
"Iehlklchl," he said succinctly.
"And will you tell me what 'ou are do
ing, Iehlklchl?"
A small hand from behind his back pro
duced a tfny bamboo cage In which was a
bell-crloket. As he held It out, the In
sect chirped like an elfin cymbal. "Find
more one," he said laconically.
"And what shall you do with them, I
wonder."
' He took one foot from Its clog and
wriggled bare toes In the grass. "Ulvs
him to new little sister," he said.
"8o you have a new little sister'" ex
claimed Barbara. "How fine that must
be!"
A glase of something like disappoint
ment spread over the diminutive face.
"Small like." he said. "More better want
a brother to play with me."
"Maybe you might exchange her for a
brother," she hasarded, but the cropped
head shook despondently:
Barbara laughed outright, a peal of sil
very sound that echoed across the garden
-then suddenly drew back. A man on
horseback was passing across the drive
toward the main gate of the compound.
It was Daunt, bareheaded, hla handsor.ie
tanned fare flushed with exercise, the
breese ruffling his moist, curling hair. She
flashed him a smile as his rldlng-crcp
flew to his brow in salute. The sun
glinted from Its Damascene handle,
wrought Into the long, grotesque muzzle
of a fox. Between the edses of the riue
silk curtains she saw him turn In the
saddle to look back before he disappeared.
She stood peering out a long time toward
the low white cottage across the clipped
lawn. The laughter had left her eyes, and
gradually over her face grew a wave of
rich color. he dropped the curtain and
caught Iter hands to her cheeks. For an
Instant she had seemed to feel the rressure
of strong arms, the touch of coarse tweed
vividly reminiscent of a pipe.
What had come over her? The one day
that bed dawned at sea In golden fire and
died In crimson and purple over a file of
convicts the dreaming night with It tem
ple bells striking through silver mist and
violet shsdows these had left her the same
liar baie that she had always been. But
somewhere, somehow. In the closed gjlf
between the then and now, something new
and strange and eweet had waked In her
romethlng that the sound of a voice In the
garish sunlight had started Into clamorous
revt rue rations.
She sat down suddenly and hid her face.
CHATTER XIV.
A race) la III (ow, ,
They rode to the parade ground Barbara
and 1'atrtcla with the ambassador, behind
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omance bv Ifallie
JWinor
his pair of Kentucky grays along wide
streets grown festive overnight and buiztng
with rick'sha and pedestrians. Every gate
way held crossed flags bearing the blood
red rising sun and colored paper lanterns
were swung In festoons along the gaudy
blocks of shops as wide open as tiers of
cut honey comb.
The horses trotted on, to drop to a walk
presently on a brisk incline. High, slanting
retaining walls were on either side and
double rows of cherry trees, whose Inter
lacing branches wove a roof of soft pink
bloom.
"Why, there's little Iehlklchl," said Pat
rlola, "I never saw him so far from home
before. Is'nt that a queer looking man
with him!"
The solemn six-year-old, Barbara's
window acquaintance of the morning, was
trotting from the lnclosure, hla small fin
gers clutching the hand of foreigner.
The latter was of middle age. Hla coat
was a heavy, doublebreasted "reefer."
His battered hat. wide-brimmed and soft
crowned, was a Joke. But bis linen was
fresh and good and his clumsy shoes did
not conceal the smallness and shapeliness
of his feet He was lithe and well built,
and moved with an easy swing of shoulder
and a step at once quick and graceful.
His back was toward them, but Barbara
could Bee his long, gray-black hair, a
square brow above an aquiline profile at
once bold and delicate, and a drooping
mustache shot with gray. Many people
seemed, to regard him, but he spoke to
no one save his small companion. His
manner, as he bent down, had something
carerslng and confiding.
At the scund of wheels the man turned
all at once toward them. As his gaze met
Barbara's, she thought a startled louk shot
across It. At side view his face had
reetned a dark nUve, but now In the vivid
sunlight It showi'l blanched. His eyes
were deep In arched orbits. One, she noted,
was rurlous!y prominent and dilated. From
a certain bird-! in turn of the head, she
had an impression that this one eye was
nearly if not wholly BlRhtless. All this
passed through her mind in a flash, even
while she wondered at his apparent agi
tation. For as he gazed, he had dropped the
child's hand. She raw his lips compress
In an expression grim and forbidding. He
made an involuntary movement, as though
mastered by a quick Impulse. Tht'i, In
a breath, hi.- faee rhanxeff. Ha shrank
back, turned sharply into the park and
was lost among the t.ees.
"What an odd man!" exclaimed J'V
tricia. "I suppose he rcfented our staring
at him. He's left the liule chap all alcne.
too. Stop the horses a moment. Tucker."
she directed, and as they pulled up she
called to the child.
But there was no reply. Ishlklchl looked
at her a moment frownlngly, then, with
out a word, turned and stalked somberly,
af'er His companion.
"What r.n Infant thunder cloud!" said
Patricia, as the carriage proceeded. "T;.3t
must be where our precious prodigy gets
his English. Poor ailte!" she added "He
was the Inseparable of the soa of Toru,
the flower dealer opposite the em t any.
Barbara, and the deer little fellow n ron
over and killed la&t week by a foreign enr
ragt. No doubt he's gtlevlbg over It, but
In Japan even the babies are trained not to
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I SAID ! TAKE GOOD
AIM. now! FIRE'J
Erminie Rives
or oaten aanderson,
show what they feel. I wonder who this
new friend Is?"
"I've seen the man once before," said the
ambassador. "He was pointed out to ms.
His name Is Thorn. His first name Is
Greek Aloyslus, isn't It? yes, Aloyslus.
He la a kind of recluse; one of those bits
of human flotsam, probably, that western
civilization discards and that drift eventu
ally to the east. It would be Interesting to
know his history."
o this, thought Barbara, was the exile
of Whom Daunt had told her, who had
chosen to bury himself from what un
guessed motive! In an oriental land, sunk
out of sight like a stone in a pool. When
he looked at her sho had felt almost an
Impulse to speak, so powerful had the
Shadow In his eyes suggested the canker
of solitariness, the dreary ache of bitter
ness prolonged. She felt a wave of pity
surging over her.
CHAPTER XV.
"BsbmI Klppont"
Gradually, as they proceeded, the throng
became denser. Policemen In neat suits of
white duck and wearing long cavalry
swords lined the road. They had smart
military-looking caps and white cotton
gloves, and stood, as had the officer before
the file of convicts In Phimbashi station,
moveless and imperturbable.
The air was full of exhilaration; people
were laughing and chatt!ng. The British
ambassador displayed the plaid of a colonel
of Highlanders; he had fought In the Sou
dan. The Chinese minister w as in his own
mandarin costume; from his round. Jade
buttoned hat swept the much-coveted pea
cock feathers and on his breast were the
stars of the "Rising Sun" snd the "Double
Drugon." The American ambassador alone,
of all the foreign representatives, wore the
plain frock coat and s:ik hat of the civil
ian. From group to group strolled officials
of the Japanese foreign office and cabinet
ministers, their ceremonial coats crossed
by white or crimson cordons. And through
It all Barbara moved, responsive to all this
lightness and color, bowing here and tin re
to Introductions that left her only the more
conscious of the one tall figure that had
met them and now walked at her side.
Daunt could not have told that the
flowers In her hat were brown orchids; he
only knew that they matched the color of
her pjii. Last nlht the moonlight hsd
lent her something of the fragile and
ethereal, like Itself. Now the sunllgi.t
painted In ieer. warm colors of cream
and cardinal .
He started, as "A penny for your
thoughts,'' t-he said, with sudden mis
chief. "Have jou so much about you?" he
countered.
"That's a siil'terfus-e."
"You wouldn't be flattered to hear them,
I'm afraid."
The reflec tion ts certainly a sad blow to
my self-esteem!"
"Well," he said daringly, "I was think
ing how I would like to pick you up In
my arms before all these people and run
right out in the center'of that field"
She f!uhed to the tips of her eu. "And
then-"
"Just run, and run. and run away "
"What a heiulc explc.it!" she said with
V9
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I RELISHED
(THE WHOLE
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YOU shouidn;
VJQ(AOlCiriUj
fiear(s Courageous
subtle mockery, but the flush deepened.
"You know to what lengths I can go in
my longing to be a hero!" he muttered.
"Running off with girls under your arm
seems to have become a mania. But Isn't
your Idea rather prosaic In this age of
flying machines? To swoop down on one
In an aeroplane would be so much more
thrilling! This Is the field where you prac
tice, too, Isn't It? Is that building away
over there where you keep your Glider?"
"ITes. At first I made the. models In a
Japanese house of mine near here. I keep
it still, from sentiment."
"How fine to meet a man who admits to
having sentiment! I'm tremendously Inter
ested In Japanese houses. You must show
It to me."
"I will. And when will you let me take
you for a 'fly V "
"I'm relieved," she said, "to find you
willing to ask permission.
Her eyes sparkled Into his, and both
laughed, Patricia was chatting animatedly
with Count Voynlch. a young diplomatist,
whose monocle looked absurdly contempla
tive and serene under a menacing helmet.
The confusion of many colors, the pomp
and panoply under the day's golden azure,
was singing In Barbara's veins.
Daunt, watching Barbara, saw the light
leaping In her brown eyes, the excitement
coming and going In her face. Again and
again he fixed his gaze before him, as In
fantry, cavalry and artillery marched and
pounded and rumbled past. In vain. Dike
a willful drunkard It returned to Intoxicate
Itself with the sight of her eager beauty,
that made the scene for him only a splen
did blur, an extraneous Impression of
masses of swaying bodies moving like
marionettes, of gllhttnlng bayonets, horses,
clattering ammunition wagons and flutter
ing pennants.
C1IAPTKH XVI.
A Silent I nderstsndins".
Phil descended from his rick'sha at the
Tokyo club and paid the coolie.
The building faced an open square be
tween the Imperial hotel and the Parlia
ment buildings, along one of the smaller
picturesque moats, which the fever for.
modernization was now filling In to make
a conventional boulevard. A motor shed
stood at the side of the plaza and an
automobllo or two was generally In evi
dence. The structure was small but com
fortable enough, v. Ith reading and card
rooms and a bllliaru room of many table.
The door was opened by a servile bell
boy In buttons. Phil tossed his hat on to
the hall rack and entered. He strode
through the office and entered a large,
glass-Inclosed plaaza where a number of
Japanese, some In foreign, some In native
costume, were watching a game of go.
lVownlng, he passed Into the next room.
Here hl eye lightened. Sitting In a cor
ner of one of the hueo sofas which sank
under his enormous weight was Dr. I'.er
s n n. A little round tahle w as before him.
on which sat a la'l g'sis frosted with
cracked Ice.
".Sit down." said the expert. ' How do
you come to be In Tokyo? The Review, I
presume." He struck a call bell on the
lil le and gave an order to the waiter.
Phil lighted a c'gireiue. "No." he said.
"I've come to stay for a while."
"Voj haven't given up your bungalow en
W0NDER
HOW THE
EGG SHELL
DRAMATIC
COMPANY
S DOINGS
THIS. ,( .
the Bluff?" asked Bersonln quickly. There
was an odd eagerness In his colorless face
a look of almost dread, which Phil, light
ing his cigarette, did not see. It changed
to relief as the other answered:
"No. Probably I shan't be here more
than a few days."
The expert settled back In his seat.
"You'll not find the hotel everything It
should be, I'm afraid," he observed more
casually.
"I'm not there," Phil answered. "I I'vs
got a little Japanese house."
"So! A menage de garcon, eh?" The
big man held up his clinking glass to the
light, and under cover of It his deep-set
yellowish eyes darted a keen, detective
look at Phil's averted face. "Well," he
went on, "how are your affairs? Has the
stern brother appeared yet?"
Phil shifted uncsslly. "No," he replied.
"I expect him pretty soon, though." He
drained the plass tho boy had filled.
"You've been tremendously kind, doctor,"
he went on hurriedly, "to lend me so much,
without the least bit of security"
"Pshaw!" said Bersonln. "Why shouldn't
I?" He put his hand on the other's shoul
der with a friendly gesture. "I only wish
money could give mc as much pleasure as
It does you, my boy."
Phil moved his gloss on the table top
In sullen circles. "But suppose one hasn't
the 'wherewithal' you talk of? What's
the fun without money, even when you're
young? I've never been able to dis
cover It!"
"Find the moiey," sold Bersonln.
"I wiBh someone would tull me how!"
Bersonln's head turned toward the door.
He sat suddenly rigid. It came to Phil
that he waa listening, intently to the talk
between the two men In the next room. '
"I needn't point out" It waa a measured
voice, cold and Incisive and deliberate
"that when the American fleet came, two
yearj ago, conditions were quite different.
The cruise was a national tour de force;
the visit to Japan was Incidental. Besides,
there was really no feeling then between
the two rations that was all a creation
of the yellow press. But the coming of this
European squadron today Is a different
thing. It Is a season of general sensitive- '
nea and distrust, and when the ships be
long to a nation between which and Japan
there Is a real and serious diplomatic ten
sion, well, In my opinion the time Is, at
best Inopportune."
"I'erhaps" a younger voice was speaking
now, less certain, less poised and a little
hesitant "perhaps the very danger makes
for caution. People are particularly careful
with matches when there's a lot of powder
about."
"True, as far as Intention goes. But there
!s the possibility of some contretemps. Yovi
remember the case of the A.lax In the
Eighties. It was blown up In a friendly
harbor clearly enough by accident, at
least so far as the other nation was con
cerned. But It wos during a time of strain
and hot blood, und you know how nar
rowly a great clash was averted. If war
had followed regiments would have
marched across the frontier shouting:
'1U member the AJax!' As It was, there
was a panic In three bourses. Solid securi
ties fll to the lowest point In their his
tory. The yellow press pounded down the
market end a few speculators on tho short
side made gigantic fortunes."
A moment's pause ensued. Beisonln'a
fingers were rigid. There seemed suddenly
to Phil to be some significance between
his silence and the conversation as If he
wished It to sink Into his. Phil's, mind.
The voice continued:
"What has happened once may happen
again. What if one of those dreadnaugbta
by whatever accident should go down in
this friendly hsrbor? It doesn't take a
vivid Imagination to picture the headlines
next morning In the newspapers at home!"
The Ice In the tumblers clinked; there
was a sound of pushed-back chairs.
As their departing footsteps died In the
hall Bersonln's gaze lifted slowly to Phil's
face. It had in It now the look It had
held when he gazed from the roof of the
bungalow on the Bluff acrbas the aucLor-
reason ;
fiNOW! BEAU-1)
-TiFUL SNOWli
YET 1 MUST
Uevour. YOU.H
FW
hHAW.' IT IS
RAINING. NOW
MY FEAST WILL
EKO ! THIS S.
CERTAINLY
BAD LUCK! JUST
WHEN I WAS
ENJOYING A
repast: WHAT
AckuVorldJ
oh; excuse
ME! 1 ATE
A RAREBIT
THIS EVENlWCi
m IT HAS
OUITE UP
SET ME
I FELL A
SLEEP JUST
. THEN'.
sge beneath. Phil did not start or shrink.
Instead, the slinking evil that ruled him
met balf-way the bolder evil In that glance,
from whose sinister suggestion the veil was
for a moment lifted, recognising a tacit
kinship. Neither spoke, but as the hard
young eyes looked Into the cavernous,
topas eyes of Dr. Bersonln. Phil knew
that the thought that lay colled there was
a thing unholy and unafraid. His heart
beat faster, but It warmed. He felt no
longer awed by the other's greater age,
standing and accomplishments. He was
conscious of a new, half-Insolent sense of
asy Comradeship.
"Suppose," said Bersonln slowly, "I
should show you how to find the money."
A sharp eargerness darted across Phil's
face. Money' How much he needed It,
longed for It! It could put him on his
feet, clear off his debts, square his bridge
balance, and his brother notwithstanding!
enable him to begin another chapter of
the careless life he loved! He looked
steadily Into the expert's face.
"Tell me!" he almost whispered.
Bersonln rose and held out his hand. Ha
did not smile.
"Come with me tonight," he said, "J
dine late, but we'll take a spin In my car
and have some tea somewhere beforehand.
Tell me where your house Is and I'll send
Ishlda, with the motor car for you."
Phil gave him the address and he went
out with no further word. A great, brass
fitted automobile, with a young, keen
eyed Japanese sitting beside the chauffeur,
throbbed up from the shed. Bersonln
climbed ponderously in. A gray-haired
diplomatist, entering the club with a
strangvr, pointed the big man out to the
other as he was whirled away.
(
.,,, .jT- LAZJ
IIIAPTEII XVII.
Ia the Bamboo Use.
What did Bersonln mean? Phil replen-
Ished his glass, feeling a tense, nervous
excitement.
Why had he listened so Intently mads
him listen to what the men In the next
room were saying? JJe could recall It all
for some reason every word waa en
graven on hla mind. The visit of the
foreign squadron. Speculators who had
once made quick fortunes through an ac-'
cldent to a battleship. He thought of th
look he had seen on Bersonln's face.
"What do you want me to do?" H
muttered the words to himself. As he rose
to go he glanced half-fearfully over his
shoulder.
He walked along the utreet, his brain
afire. What do you want me to do? e
The words wove oddly witn the refrain.
Why fchould he eay them over and over?
Again and attain It came an echo of an
echo-and atrnln and again he seemed to
see the look in the expert's hollow, cat
like eyes! It hunted him as he walked
on toward Aojatna parade ground, to the
little house In Kosumigatsnl Cho, the
"Htreet-of-the-Mlsty-Valley."
Then, as he walked, he saw someone
that for the moment drove It from his
mind. He had turned for a short cut
through a temple inclosure, and there he
met her face to face the girl of the
inatsuil. whom he had seen wading In the
foam at Kamakura. iler slim neck, pale
with rice powder, rose from a soft white
neckerchief flowered with gold, and a scar
let poppy was dreaming In her black hair.
Phil's face sprang red. and a wave of warm
color overran her own.
"O-Haru-San!" he cried.
' Konlchl-wa." sho answered with grave
courtesy and made to pass him, but he
turned and walked by her side. "Please,
please!" he tntreated. "If you only knew
how often I have looked for you! Don t
be unkind!"
"Why you talk with me?" said Ham.
turning. "My Japanese girl-no all same
your country."
"You wild, pretty thing!" he said, "Why
are you afraid of men? Foreigners don't
eat butterflies."
"No," she answered, without hesitation,
"they Jus' break wings."
(To Bs Continued.