TIIE OMAHA' SUNDAY BEE: JANUARY
i9ir.
away from me
now! Never
shall never have you
never!"
Cll tPTKB XXVI.
Daunt Listen, to aonff
The day hd dawned sultry, with a prom
a rhythm Mat seemrd to fit her thought
Flow and Infinitely tender.
"You!" ho crfod.
She turned with a startled movement
that dissolved Into low. delicious laughter.
"Falrlv caught." she answered. ' 1 don"t
often revert far enough to cllinti trees, but
Iso of summer humlditv. and Daunt w.. thought no one but llaru and I was here,
not surprised to find the barometer per- Win you com and he,,. me down, lion-
forming intemperate antics.
That morning had seen his first trlnl of
his new fan-propeller, and the glider's ac-
i An Incrnaional
""PYRlQtjT. 2910, BY THZ AOPSS-JIEESILL COHTAJVT
telegraph clerk, the signature, "Austen thera will be ben aboard those shirs
Ware."
CHAPTER XXIV.
I.Ike tbe Whisper of Ilat'a Wlact.
On the other aide of Tokyo that night
I II AIM Kit XX VII Continued.
Bhe round herseir In a crowded corridor
of the emptying playohuse. The mass of
Japanese fares confused her. A door
spened at another angle and she passed
through It hastily Into the open air. The
street aha was now In was narrow, and Dr. Bersonln sat with Fhll in his great
aha followed It expecting It to turn Into a laboratory. Dinner had been laid on a
larger thoroughfare. It did bo presently, round table at one end of the room. This
and at the corner she paused till the burn- waa now pushed Into a corner; they aat
Ing had left her eyes and her breath came In deep leather chairs with allm liquor
evenly. Then ahe walked back toward the glasses of green creme da menthe on a
theater, . feeling an Impatient Irritation at stand between them, with a methyl lamp
her behavior. and cigars.
Presently, however, she stopped, . pus- Bersonln spoke. Ills voice waa cold and
, aled. The theater was not there. The measured; the only sign of agitation waa
atrcet. too, had nut the character of the one In the slow, spasmodic working of the
In which ah had left Iaunt. Bhe must great white flngera against the dark wood,
have taken the wrong turn. She walked "I have brought you here tonight," he
rapidly In the opposite direction, until an- said, "to make you a proposition. I have
omancc IrV bailie Erminie Rives
Autior or oaian jariderson ,ficar(s Louragcous
"I am beginning to understand already,"
urn hie Fly-wan'
"Wait "he said. "What
you Were humming?"
she looked at him with
waa the sons,
a iiulek Intake
tlon had surpassed his wildest expectation. of breatn u,n or answrr lw.tan to sing.
The flUht. of which Barbara had caught )n fc vo)(,e that ,,rrntly t,0l.me scarce
a gllmrse from Thorn s garden, had been niorp tl)n a whl.,H,r:
a longer one than u.ual-o.ulto twelve miles vwu? w. lf forKeltlnK
against a sluggish upper current but even ,t(l ,,HrinK n ,he dy
that failed to bring Its customary glow. Your voire through H the strange babble
l if voices grave, now gay
Thereafter he hnd spent a long morning
lf counting each moment with longing
throat.
" He shuddered and wrenched his gaxe she said, as they walked along the step- "I must go now," she said. The chapel
way. ping stones, "that these gentle-mannered is to be dedicated this morning. The organ
Bersonln put out his great hand and laid people do not lack the sterner qualities. Is playing lor the service now.
immersed in the worn or the i nancer . tiii . ne when 1 see vou Kin.
the study of a disputed mining concession f mis be forgetting, you're rlgnt dear I
In Manchuria; a report on a contemplated And I have forgotten you then!"
Issue of government bonds; a demand for Daunts hand fell to his aide. A young
a nasfoort bv a silf-alleged national with gin a lace nrsucu in ..r..u.
fnrrliin aeeent n,1 a tmueltv of natllial- SonlS-a BWeet. Shy.
flushed face under a
It on the other', ahoulder-lts weight Yet hoy they grace them! 1 h Iron hand Is Fiie led the way along the stepping-stones lntlon papers; the dally budget of trans- nim or ruinns. iuiu-inin
v.- i., t.i, here hut It has the velvet zlnve. Courtesv n ih. K.mKnn r.t. As ihpv armroaehed. i.,. .i.,- ,.-.,m., ,..,- hv mcliuber now!" he said In a low voice.
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chair.
"Well?" he said, In a low Intense voice.
"What lf there are?"
CHAPTER XXV.
The Forgotten Man.
nd kindness seem almost a religion with through the Interstices of the farther hedge
them." she could see the figure of the ambassador,
"More," he answered. "Thla Is the only with Mrs. Dandrldge. among the kimono
rnnntrv T hnv lann In thn world whnn entering the chapel door. In the temple its
people, when I walk the street, do not
seem to notice that I am disfigured!"
Bhe made no pretense of mlsunderstand-
which a homo government gains a bird s
eye view of comment and public opinion
In faraway capitals.
But today Daunt could not exercise with
tapping and the dulled, monotonous torn- pf MM rng
Barbara pushed open the bamboo gate lng. "Believe me," she said gently, "It Is
of the temple garden, then paused. The no disfigurement. But I understand. My
recluse with whom she had talked yester- father lived all hla life In the dread of
day sat a little way Inside, while before blindness
hlin, In an attitude of deepest attention,
stood the diminutive figure on the huge aware, without lifting har eyes to his, that
clogs whose morning acquaintance she had he was staring at her strangely. "All his
made from her window. Thorn was look- life. Then your father In not living?"
plagued him. They peered at him over the
edge of the code-books and whispered from
other street crossed at right angles. This need of help of a kind that you can give lng at him earnestly with hla great myoplo "He dle4 before 1 waa born."
ene iiiea wun no nctter result. In the mate me. It will require certain qualities which
of lantern lighted vistas she was com- I think you possess which we possess In
pletely loet. common. I have chosen you because you
Just before her, at the side of the way, h"vs daring and because you are not trou-
stood a small temple with a recumbent b,e1 ',tn whllt he coward calls conscience
atone fox at its entrance. It made her that fool B name for fear!"
think suddenly of the riding crop she had touched his dry Hps with his tongue,
aeen 1 Jaunt carrying, with Its Damaacene have as little of that as the next man,"
foxhead handle. In the doorway burned a n replied. "I never found I needed much."
rack of little candles and' chest, barred Bersonoln continued:
across the top, set ready to receive the of- "What I have to say I can Bay without
ferlngs of worshipers. Above this was sua- misgiving. For if you told it before the
pended the mirror which la the Invariable fact there Is a possibility but one man In
badge of a Phlnto shrine, it was tilted at Japan who would think you sane; and It
an eagle and tossed back the glimmer of you told after well, for your own Bafety,
the candle flame. With a whimsical smile 'you will not tell It then! Your acceptance
Bhe took a copper coin from her purse ' my proposition will have a definite ef-
and leaned to toss It Into the chest. 'pct on your prospects, which, I befleve.
But her flngera closed on It and she rn "ely e looked on as bright."
drew hick im-tiiv wih . ....i..b Ph" muttered an oath. "You needn't
torn mingled weirdly with the soaring har
monies of the organ
With her hand on the paling she spoke the ml.;n, of decorous despatches, chuck-
again: ling satirically
"One thing I didn't tell you. It was I ' "Barbara!" they sneered. "Mere ac
who built the chapel. It Is In the memory qualntances often name steam yachts for
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window. They were putting It In place as her ship, eh? Rather singular coin- -when
I came a little while ago." cldence! What a flush she hail when
She waa not looking at Thorn, or she Voynlch spoke of Thll s brother last night
would have seen her face overspread with a at the tea house. Angry? Of course she
I sang It to you thai
day!"
"I am flattered!" she exclaimed. "Tie.
day before) yesterday you had forgotten
that you ever saw poor little me! It wa
Mrs. I'laybourne, of course, that you sum
to! Yet you were my Idol for a long montto
and a day!"
"It was to you ' he said unsteadily. "I
didn't know your name. But I never for
got the song. I remembered It that night
In the garden, when I first heard you
of one of the tales llaru had told her.
She knew suddenly that she stood before
a temple of Inarl, the fox-god, patron
deity of her whose conquests brought
ahame to households and dishonor to wlvea.
Bhe remembered a song the Japanese girl
had sung to the tinkle of her Bamiaen:
"My weapons are a smile and a little
fan
Eayonara, Fayonara
It was the song of the "fox-woman."
Bhe slipped the purso hastily back Into
her pocket.
The fox-woman! As she walked on, for
tne nrst time the phrase came to Barbara moment In silence, his fingers crawling and
with a sudden, sharp sense of actuality, twitching. Then, with a quick, leopard-like
There were fox-women of every rare and movement, he went to the wall safe,
clime, women who came, with painted opened It and took out what seemed to be
smile, between true lovers. What If she a square metal box. In Its top was set an
herself what If here in thla land that bale- mdlcator, like the rangeflnder of a camera,
ful wisdom were to strike home to her? Its very touch seemed to melt his Icy con
Like a keen blade tho thought pierced trol. His paleness flushed; his hand trem
tlirough her and something shy and sweet, bled as he set It upon the desk,
new born In her breast, shrank startled "Walt!" ha said. "Walt!"
and fearful from It. Ha looked swiftly about the room. His
,'. . , . . eye rested on the bamboo cage and" a quick
CHAPTER XXIII. gleam shot across hla face. He opened the
" wire door and the little bird hopped to his
The Alarttlesa City. flne . M mnverf a. mtol hen rut tho
remln me of that," he said with Burly em
phasis. "I've got about as much prospects
as a coolie stevedore. Well, what of It?','
Bersonln leaned forward, his hands on
the stand. It rocked under his weight. "I
have talked of money. I will show you a
quick way to gain It not by years, but by
days! such wealth as you have never
dreamed, enough to make your brother
poor beside you! Not only money, but
power and place and honors. Is the stake
big enough to play for?"
Phil stared at him, fascinated.
"What do you want me to do?" He
almost gasped the words.
The expert looked him In the eye a full
"Madame!"
very center of the desk and perched the
Bhe turned, with relief thla tlma, to see 'tiny creature on It. It burst Into song, -a
guide. warbling full-throated, packed with melody..
"You are lost." he said, "Coma with Bersonln set the metal case a little distance
me and I will find you.' away and adjusted' It with minutest care.
Bhe bade him take her to the gate as "B; t)lck!" he cr,ed "'n!
quickly as possible and followed him rap- 'n't.
idly, stung with an acute longing for the' The on stopped. There had come a
noisy roadway with its careening rlck'Bha. hr",1 in the alr-a Pu" of ,c wlnd on
He conducted her through a maze of
Phil's face a thin chiming like
cymbal. Phil sprang up with a cry
fairy
The
narrow streets and pointed to the building, f,uffy ba wltn ,tg mtal ha(, ut
which she saw with a breath of relief.
terly disappeared; only In the center of the
Taking out her purse. Bhe put a bill Into deBk wa8 a plnch o readll!h.brown powder
in emery wheel, laid In
What does It
his hand. "Thank you," she said, "and ke tno du8t of
gooa nigni. feathery whorls.
Barbara came on Daunt in the middle lie stared transfixed.
of the blook. He had stationed himself In mean?" he asked hoarsely,
the roadway, towering head and shoulders The doctor's voice was no longer tone
above the lesser stature of the native less. It leaped now with an evil exultation,
crowds. With hlra was a Japanese boy, "it means that I Bersonln have found
who, she noted with surprise, waa Ito, one what physicists have dreamed of for fifty
of the house servants. Her heart Jumped years! I have solved the secret of the love
as she eaw the relief Bprlng to Daunt s and hatred of atoms! That box Is the har
anxious face. ness of a force beside which the engines
"Mea culpa!" she cried, and with an of modern war are children's toys."
Impulsive gesture reached out her hand He grasped Phil's arm with a force that
to him. "What a trouble I have been to made him wince. The amber eyes gllt-
ou! I was actually lost. Isn't it absurd?" tered.
Her slim, white fingers lay a moment "At lr,t 1 Planned to sell It to the hlgh-
tn his. All his heart had leaped to meet bidder among the powers. I was a
ihem. In the moment of her anier he had to think of that! The nation that
not read Its meaning, but since then It
had been given him partly to underbtand.
His thoughtless words blunderer that he
was had seemed to carp at her like a
whining school boy, with cheap, left
handed satire. Y'et to his memory even
buys It, to guard the secret for Itself,
must wall me In a fortress! That would
be the reward off Bersonln the great Ber
sonln, who had wrested from nature the
most subtle of her secrets! But I am too
clever for that ! It must be I I alone
her hot. Indignant voice had been rtngingly who holds the key! It shall bring me many
sweet, for the stars again were golden things, but first of these is money. 1
and Tokyo once more fairyland.
What will the others lay!" she said.
"They will have inlesod us long ago."
"We will take extra push-men." he said,
"and easily overtake them. We can get
rick'sha at the next atund."
"What did you think." Bhe asked as they
rounded the corner, "when you found I
"Sad vanished Into" thin air?"
"I Imagined for a while you were push-
must have funds unlimited funds. The
money I despise, except as a stepping
stone, but the money you love and must
have! Well, I offer It to you!"
Phil's heart was beating fast. The ten
sion of the room had Increased; a hundred
suffocating atmospheres seemed pressing
on It. "How how " he stammered.
Bersonln took a paper from his pocket,
unfolded It and laid It on the stand. It
was a chart of Tokohama harbor. A red
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HARU AND BARBARA.
CIIAPTKR XXVII.
Tbe Island of Knchan t meat.
They walked together around the curv
ing road, leaving llaru with the tea
basket. "Patsy would have come," Bar
bara had said, "but she Is In the clutchea
of her dressmaker." And Daunt had an
swered, "I have a distinct regard for that
Chinaman!"
His black mood had vanished, and the
leering Imps had flown. In the brightness
of her physical presence, how baseless and
foolish seemed his sullen' Imaginings!
What man who owned a steam yacht,
knowing her, would not wish to name It
the Barbara?
The sky was duller now. Its marvelous
haze of blue and gold had turned pallid,
and the sun glared with a palo, yellowish
effrontery. A strange sighing waa In the
air, so faint, however, that It seemed only
the stirring of Innumerable leaves, the
resinous rasping of pine needles and the
lisping fall of the flaming petals from the
century-old camella trees, that stained
the ground with hot, bleeding red. At a
turn in tho road stood a stone .linage of
Jlzo, with a red paper bib about Its neck.
Before It lay three small rice cakes; some
where In the neighborhood was a little
sick child, S years old. At Its base were
heaps of tiny stones, piled by mothers
whoso little children had died.
They went laughing like two children,
down the zigzag stone Bteits, pant innum
erable uomltel crimson-benched "rest
ing houses," where grave Japanese pedes
trians sat eating stewed eels and chipping
hard-boiled eggs to the rocky edge of the
tide, which now rolled In with a measured,
sullen booming. He pointed to a gloomy
fissure which ran Into the mountain at a
little distance.
"O maiden, Journeying to Holy Ben-
ten," he said, "behold her shrine!"
"How disillusioning!"
"People find love so, sometimes."
She slowly shook her head. "Not all of
them," she said softly. "I am old fashioned
enough not to believe that." Her brown
eyes were wistful and a little troubled,
and her voice was so adorable that he
could have gone on his knees to her.
"We will ask Ben-ten about It," he said.
"Oh, but not 'we!' " she cried. "I must
go alonej Don't you know the legend? Peo
ple quarrel lf they go together."
"I can't Imagine quarreling with you. I'd
rather quarrel with myself."
"That would be dlffloult, wouldn't ltt"
"Not in some of my moods. Ask my
head-boy. Today, for Instance"
"Well?" For he had paused.
'' I was meditating self-destruction when
I met you."
"By what Interesting method, I wonder?"
"I was about to search for a volcano to
Jump Into."
"I thought the nearest active crater Is
100 miles away."
"Bo it Is, but I'm an absent-minded beg
gar." '
Bhe laughed. "May I ask what inspired
today's suicidal mood?"
"It was a telegram."
"Oh!" She colored faintly. "I I hope it
held no bad news."
He looked Into her eyes. "I hope not,"
he said. Something else was on bis tongue,
when "Look!" she exclaimed. "How
strange the sea looks off there!"
A sinister, whitish bank, like a mad drift '
of smoke, lay far off on the water, and a
tense, whistling hum came from the upper
air. A drop oi water splashed on Daunt'a
wrist. "There's going to be a blow," he
said. "The seaweed gatherers are all com
ing in, too. Ben-ten will have to wait, I'm
afraid. See even her high priest Is for
nuking her!"
From where they stood steps were
roughly hewn Into the rock, winding across
the face of the cliff. Beside these, stone
pillars were socketed? carrying an Iron
chain that hung In runted festoons. Along
this precarious pathway from the cavern
an old man was huutlly coming, followed by
a boy with a sagging bundle tied In a
white cloth. "That parcel, no doubt," said
Daunt, "contains the day's offerings. Wattl
You're not going?" For she had started
eye, through a heavy glass mounted with Bhe glanced at him as she spoke, for his whiteness like that of death. He stood as If was! What engaged girl likes to have the down the steps.
a handle like a lorgnette. tone had been muffled and Indistinct. There froren to marble. The morning sun on the fuct paraded especially when she's prac- Bhe had turned to answer, when, with the
"My son," he said, "why will you persist was a deep furrow In his forehead which chapel's eastern side, .striking through It tlclng on another man? And how about suddenness of an explosion, a burst of
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hat you would find your way back. ,o-I acres, the anchorage. With hi. pencil the truj dlvlmty of th(j un(. hlm?.. window with a tender radiance, gliding the her. by tbe way? Two days? Really, .pattering them with drops that struck ; " h.
verse? It Is too sweet for youthful teeth. "No. he was dark. I am like my mother." au" 'ellow aureole auout tne neaa or the now! rock a8 hurie(i trom a sling full of melted
One of these days you will be carried to a Thorn was looking away from her, toward Mister giving life and glow to the The weekly wovemmtnt pouch had closed metal. Barbara had never In her life ex-
Ing me. Then I guessed you had some'iow square was drawn In the margin, and from
turned Into the side street. But I felt this a fine, needle-like ray pointed out
waited.
"Thank you,
she said softly.
dootor wrote two words on the red square
"1 have "The Roost.'
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not acted so badly blnce I was a child. Ar. nil shrank trembling Into his chair. He oentl8t, an esteemed person with horrible the lane, where, beyond the hedge, a man face beslde """-dark, beardless and pas- at noon, and pouch days were half holl- peri,.nced anything like its ferocity It both
you going to shrive me?" seemed to see the other looking at him tooUt prlor t0 the remova, ot a small hell, was passing, half-slnging, half chanting to l-natcly tendcr-at which Thorn was star- days, but Daunt Old not go to the em- 8tartl(:d and angered her, like a personal
I am the one to ask that of you." he ver clinking glasses at the club, while
replied. voices spoke from the next room. "What
"No no! It is I. I must do penance. u ons ot those Dreadnaughts should go
What Is It to be?"
He looked at her steadily; his eyes shone
with dark fire. In the pause she felt her
leart throb quickly, and ahe laughed with
k sweet unsleadiner.s. "I am giud you are
going to give me none," she raid. ,
"But 1 do," he mimwi'., "I bhiill. I"
The boy Ito. behind their., spoke his
name. Daunt blurted with a stab of
rocollecllon and drew from his pocket a
folded pink paper, fastened with a blue
veal.
"How stupid ot me' My wits have gone
down in this rrlendly harbor! It came
from his lips In a thin whisper, almost
without his volition the answer to the
question that had haunted him that day.
A gleam like the fire ot unholy altars
came In Bersonln's eyes.
"Not one two! A bolt from a blue Bky.
that will echo over Europe! And what
then? A fury of popular passion in one
country: suspicion and alarm In all. Ru
mors of war, tanned by the yellow pres.
The bottom dropping out of the market!
containing several myriads of lotst toulb, himself In a repressed, sepulchral voice,
from the left side of your lower jaw!" "My mother died, too, when I was a little
Rurbara'a foot grated on a pebble and girl," she added, "so I know really very
he rose with a startled Quickness. The little about nim."
youngster bent double, his face pretermit- She was looking out across the wide ,ne bt"n of her dress the locket she al
ways wore ana openeu ir. i ne race w as
to the foliuged slope of Aoyama. Suddenly I'ainled from this the only picture I have
a rtuill. a curlcusly complex motion, run of m father."
over her. Above Hose far treetops, sail- His hand twitched as he took it. He
ing in blow, sweeping, concentric circles, locked at t long and earnestly at the
one saw a grat machine, like a gigunlic name carved on Its lid. "Barbara Barbara
vulture. She knew instantly whut It wbj. Fairfax!" he said. She thought his lips
arid there flusnrd before her the memory fl.ook under the giay mustache.
of a day at 1'ort Logan when a bravo "You are a Buddhist, ere you not?" she
young lieutenant had crashed to death bo- asked. "And Buddhists believe the spirits
urally grave. Thorn thrust the glass Into space where the roofs sank out of sight
his sleeve and smiled.
"1 am experimenting on this oriental raw
material." he said, "to illustrate certain
theories of my own. lalilkiehl-San, though
a slave to the sweetmeat dealer. Is a
learned ini'ant. He can write forty Chinese
characters and recite ten texts of Mciiclus.
He also knows many damnable facts about
fllfuies which tliei' tench In schntil. Ha
It means millions at a single coup. for. in ,laa just propoud(,j a question that Con-
gram for you. It canto soon after we left
the embus)', and Mrs. Dandrldge, thinking
It might be urgent, sent Ito after us to the
tea luiise. He missed us, but saw me
heie on his way back."
Iarbara broke the seal and held the
meat;e to the candle light that shone
from a low temple entrance. Bhe did not
notice at the moment that it was the tem
ple of the Fox-God whose alms she had
that evening denied. Bhe had guessed who
was the tender and the knowledge fell like
a cool, fateful hand on her mood.
poverty?" Not belnj; so wise as the Chi
nese sage I attempted its elucidation. Thus
endeih our lesson today, Ishlkichl. .Nayo
nara." Barbara looked after him smilingly. "Is
Iihiklchl in blruitened circumstances'.' Or
Is his bent political economy?"
"ills father I. as been HI for a
wool-gathering tonight. Here Is a tele- UI "'" fucius was too wise to answer: 'Why is
. ne a mr. uie j una uourw is soaring.
Wall Street will make a new record to
morrow. In London, consols ar at V.. My
agents are awaiting my word. I have many,
f.r that Is safer. I shall spread selling
orders over five countries British bonds in
Vienna and New York, and steel und Amer
ican railroads In London. I risk all and
you nothing. Yet If you Join bands with time." Thorn replied. "He keeps a shop.
nu In this we shall rhare alike you and 1! and in some way the child has heard that
And with the winnings we get now we they will have to rive it up. It troubles
shall got more. Trust me to know the him, for he can't imuiine existence wlih-
way! Money shall be dirt to you. The out It."
pleasure cities of every continent shall be "What a pity! I would be so glad to
And alas, on 1 'aunt s also. For, as she your playgrounds. You shall have your do you think I could give them
turned the leaf, his gaze, wandering pretty little Japanese irl. and fifty more thing?"
through the temple doorway, to the candle- besides." He shook his head. "After you have
tarred mirror above the tithe-box. had Phil's face had flushed and paled by been heie a while, you will find that aim-
unwittingly seen reflected there, In the turns. He looked at the expert with a P'e charity In Jatan Is not apt to be a
painfully exact chlroraphy of a Japanese shivering fascination; "But there are welcome thing."
fore her cyis in u shattered aeroplane.
lf launt were to fail-whut would It
meun to her! In that instant the garden
al out her, Thorn, the blue slty above.
faded, and alio stared dumayed into u gulf .' It throuilt a hundred existences!"
in w hose shadow:; lurkid the disastrous,
thy terrifying, the irreparable. "1 love
hlin! 1 love him!" It seiinrd to peul like
a leniplu bell through her biain. liven to
long herself she could never deny it again!
r'lie became aware of i.uislc r.tar at
hard. It brought her back to the preseni,
for it was tne sound of the organ In ll,e
new chapel across the way.
Looking up, she was struck by the ex
pression on Thorn's face. He st-emej,
some- listening, to be held captive by some dire
recollection. It brought to her mind that
bltur c.-y:,
I can not but remember such things were.
That were most precious to me:
ing, with what seemed almost an agony, bassy. An official letter had arrived from
of Inquiry. W'athlngtcn which must be delivered In
"St. John," she said softly, " 'the dls- Kamakura. Daunt seized this excuse,
ciple whom Jesus loved.' " She drew from plunged ferociously Into tweeds and an
hour afterwai.d found himself In a railway
carriage thudding gloomily toward the
lower bay. In his hiart he knew that he
was trying to iuii away from something
that nevertheless traveled with him.
At Kamakura an Immediate answer to
the. letter ho brought was not forthcoming,
and to kill the time ho strolled far down
the curved beach. . Daunt knew a tea
house on the very lip of the cliff, the
Kinlil-ro "Inn of the CIoicYn Turtle" and
he bent his steps lazily in its direction.
In the heavy heat the !uw tile roof looked
c,. d and Inviting. Tall soft-eyed Iris were
standing In its garden overlooking the
water, and aualnst the green thHr velvety
leaves mado vivid spla-hes of golden blue.
On a dead tree two Ll.uk ciows were
qcarrcllig and h rr -p tais powdered the
paths llko ink hall. The ):.., , sifting fiom
the sUy. sc. in, d to wrap everythinn in a
vast, shiiiiiMU'lrig veil. At the India- ho
paused an instant. Some one. somewhere.
wi;.s huinin:!.,.. low- oioi d. on air that :e
had once lov . J. He .u-lc.l o;n ti. cute
ai: l w ent on Into the tr mrlo'is radiance.
Hon l.e sloppid short.
of tho dead aie always about us. Do you
think pi rhaps he sees the Chapel?"
He put her locket into her hands hastily.
iod!'' he sa.d, ua If to liiinsjlf. "Ho will
ller eyes were inolst and shining. "I am
glad you think that," she said.
In the Chapel tne bmhop's gazo kindled
us It went out o.er the kneeling people.
"We beseech 1 hi e. that in tiiis place now
set f.purt to Thy service, Thy holy name
may !u worst. ipid in truth and purity
thioojh all r.e: alions."
The voice oi the L.sliop carried ucroeS
the lane and entered the window of a
temple lot;, where a man sat, still and
Barbara un seated a'.ove him i ik.
gray and qut. He threw himself on his fork of a low camellia tree, one arm laid
face with a terrible cry. cut along a branch, her e.e.n ..,.
affront.
Daunt had sprung to her side and waa
shouting something. But tho words were
indistinguishable; she shook her bead and
went on stubbornly, clinging to the chain,
a whirl of blown garments. She felt hirn
grasp her arm.
"Uo buck!" she shrieked. "It's bad
luck!" As he released her there came a second'
menacing lull, and in it she sprung down
the steM and ran swiftly out along the
lathway. Ho was after her in an instant,
overtaking l.er on a frail board ticslle that
spanned a pool, where the cliff was per
pendicular. Here the wind, shaggy with
sputno, hurled them together. Daunt threw
an aim about her, clinging with the other
hand to the wooden lulling. Her hair was
a reddish su it I aero.'M his shoulder and her
In. 111. panting against his throat, ridged
his skin with a creeping delight. The rock,
bent 8th them. throuKh whose fissure,
tongues of water ran screaming, was the
color of raspberries und tawny with sea
v.ed. Then- v. as only a weird, yellow half
IlKht. through which the gale howled and
bc 'ffud. line driifons fighting. A slather
i,! wave lit hod tin palsied framework.
He bint and shouted into her ear. All
eho caught was: "Must cave next lull"
She nodded her head and her lips smiled
at him through the confused obscurity. A
"My child!" he cried in a breaking voice, lng with a bamboo thick, t behind her and thrl" '!' her like silver rain. Pulse on
Aiy lime, nine cri:d, whom tliey have "r vivm late named In the blossoms. She
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.i.Mtu me ,i n , win iia.c iit-er Known .n., ..miiviij areuuiily out
She ro..e with a sudden sweilm? of i ho in all the.-w v-tarv yars! You have crown across tlie bay, and the hummtd s.
nj had
pu!se, an i motion like fire and snow in one
tliiilltd and cllll.d her.
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