Show t b Sidney nc 9 i Small mac I d Ii r w i y I Bobbs M erril fl fro Copy PJ t 9 ht by 1 S I t CHAPTER III III-Continued III Continued 4 h 1 shrieked the eldest priest ng g the long Indrawn breaths Is IsI ig ift nt as I said Is she not a R pome- pome t te e flower Ael AeI I The e eyes es of ofed ged ed jade I The burnished hair I 19 ago j s a dream sunset Soft as ns the theof 1 of the moon Examine her poise nil s sought out the tiny bit of ro g neck that promised rounded a ess s concealed below who below who says San San i-San is not belo beloved ed of theold the theold It old priest cackled Here lIere was d anese woman It was not t to assume an nn attitude of pot po- po AIr 3 white as satin the priest aid carried away In his orator oratory J i v down your our kimono as ns the then In n women dress Ael Aei 1 nd es not understand and Is own kimono he demonstrated was Intended u tn a full minute she gaped at him q yes es were full of pain so much w was In them that Wells Cs red ed why the gods did not strike fail with a thunderbolt His face g rl His e eyes es narrowed Finger giving him a more Japa- Japa r ruti a his p a girl sobbed titres' titres up her herig ilg ig head bend clutched the top of I i mono bent her head abruptly B weight of the cross and drew drewer her er kimono I ft veins In Wells' Wells forehead ed ed stood out In beaded bended van van- varl- varl 41 What he hud had come for was I u I Ebb n j OU 7 s sed sp p ed is etc y yr r I i I J 0 rat I y to 1 I ream S r 1 1 e so f 1 nien ting en- en i 11 ALES an d try Jut gut on J Shrieked the Eldest Priest p the Long Indr Indrawn Breaths Not as I Said I. I t ordered He lIe stood up grim grim- rIng the tile hissing silk of or his l J I 1 ut tut him Lord ord of the Thunder Gate Cate Gatet Doti he e said salcI dramatically This to Y t MS d. Id Here he flung the six You o d sf if fog or told old upon UDOn the temple floor so t to tn ke fP P y cascaded In glittering 11 coop up the 6 gold sold Who is of r the destinies of ot this vii vii- O M b your heads from the maid e eO ge h that low e eyes cs behold ator i fiK r r. curl curiosity y Is sated and A a abi abed bi y In ln 3 our Jour our cells that In ln his i for or dt benevolence per per- w to behold the splendor of ot Consider noth nothing lag of her hert to t Or he hc his fore- fore ara g to remember what MIsnor I ld d or or little s the come ouie when the lord of your Pa 1 Co MT village e will descend upon the temple as his forefathers have done He paused e eyes es Intent upon the tho hot hotspots hotspots hotspots spots of red In the girls girl's cheeks Then Escort E cort the lie maid to m my house I will snip talk to the abbot Honorable eldest priest Wells Velis said bluntly you ou have tricked me The abbot had not liked Wells Wells' oration ora orn- ornI I tion Hon It was not seemly that his priests I be so addres addressed ed He answered abrupt abrupt- abruptly ly shortly How lIow This maid Is white You saw her before through the slit in the panel of her room She Is not white I spoke of that before She Is Eurasian Chinese blood flows in her hel veins If she Is Eurasian why do you fear the missionaries 1 They ask questions There Is a astory story Poor scared kid Vc Wells ls was think think- ing She would be far better off In his own household Safe Hed He'd find a away away awn way wn to get her back where back where 1 What Is this story honorable abbot abbot abbot ab ab- ab- ab bot Where did the maid come from Wells waited then I have hafe asked ed abbot This was a new Ka Kayama The priest had heard man many stories of a dissolute dissolute dissolute disso disso- lute rogue at once penurious and spendthrift a n seeker for sensations It would be well to conciliate this newer personality The temple might need gold again You will remember San Kayama-San that when your ou honorable father sent fent you ou abroad to the white countries there was much fighting The Japanese Japanese Japa Jupa- nese troops took from the seiyo seiyo-jin country much land which they themselves themselves them them- selves had taken from China It thus becomes yellow ellow again A troop of our soldiers led by a anoble anoble anoble noble whose name Is of no Im tm- Importance captured a n Chinese family who had succored fleeing Germans In Inthe Inthe Inthe the family was this maid multI Good The noble had her sent to Japan to his house Her lIer white skin was distasteful distaste distaste- ful to him He condemned himself Her lIer paler ess ss would arouse Questions questions ques Ques- rions for this noble lived In a n large town where missionaries resided He did not like the maid Sell her None Noce o e found her pleasing Then this maid wc wes educated b by her Chinese father In a n sel seiyo seiyo-jin o mis- mis sion alter after the habits of of white women Some missionary might know her Thus Thu the noble feared Feared Investigations Investigations t In s- s and official s upon uron the affair lie He owed this temple hold gold old We Ye Yen n agreed to tul take the maid as payment We did so We would have sold her herto herto herto to the highest bidder awaiting an op op- op- op It came You have ha her It is if all nil Yer very simple She Is Iser er very beautiful Wells said It is good that she has hns the saving I Chinese blood that she may be he a maid In your our house the priest agreed It hit saves SH her that Is certain Wells ells agreed with different meaning as ns he stepped out Info Into the temple yard The peace pence of his room WAS grateful to him He Tie threw back the screens and the scented air all from flom the garden flowed In Back nack In the house he could conid h hear ar whisperings and i lIngs A word drifted to tn him Jau Laughter The sen- sen servants s rY- rY ants were arraying the tine Eura Eurasian lan In her finer finery Her lieI hair hall had h been en adjusted adjust adjust- t- t ed cd to serve er as a nimbus for tine tile fairness fairness fair fair- ness anti and sweetness of her face the th whole held In place ploce with curious ornamental orna orna- m mental combs and shot through with lone bona line lint pins of gold and anti tortoise tortoiseshell tortoiseshell shell with cunningly ly carved heads studded WI with th dull jewels Ve e must t hurr hurry the old servant directed The lord will be Impatient lie will walk wall from garden arden to hou holl bouse e I from house to garden now here now there He can hardly await IJ her hor r com corn comIn coming In ing ing Wells truly found the waiting wHiting un bearable Unseen as ns he had bt peen cn shuffling back hucl and forth over mer the tint nut stones that marked the paths the thelong thelong long shadows slowly blended Into one soft oft darkness Within the l hO home bounce lan Inn terns tern were lighted and und little tables were pr prepared for the marriage e fa feast t. t The servant ant found him hint In the gar gar- den She will not come And we cannot talk tall to her lien I will swill go It Is not according according- to custom but hut I will go I 1 understand some words of the tine seiyo JIn jin language us as you ou know He lie strode down the lon long corridor head hend erect and find entered the single open ro room m. m Arrn Arrayed ed In her finery burnished hair thrust through and through with jeweled pins ping the tine girl Irl sat ut on un a si silken en cushion alone Of what use to resist If only she could speak to this demon explain the fil first t tear forerunner forerunner fore fore- runner lunner of more to follow splashed on the matting and so Wells WllIs found her His e eyes es ached Tired The day was Ion long and he approached the cli ell climax max to strange e events Hed He'd explain quickly that she was safe with him safe from him That he hp would assist t ther her to return to her people In China He TIe knelt before her If she were I only y white He was lonely Some oneto one oneto oneto to talk to some to-some some one of ot his own kind Some one to tp make him forget torget the bitterness bit bit- ferness of the past that welled up In iu him That white friendly fingers might touch the head hend which ached so 80 And And lie he had a I yellow ellow woman I II I ha haye ye been In foreign countries Wells Yells said sold slowly and unheeding her look of surprise at his Iris English words told understand went on nn I 1 am you ou English I also He lIe pronounced with infinite care each letter I 1 like liker liker liker r Time The girl gasped tried to speak collected col col- herself Wells waiting heard the women about the fires cooking a 0 mumble of voices then the old serving woman's womans shrill He lie has gone to her Yoh Were I but young oung again Wells would have hr continued to reassure reassure re re- re- re assure her but the girl looked at ot him with hope pregnant In her eyes and words flowed lowed from her In a frightened metallic stream Please Please please she whispered dont touch me please cant can't you ou see see dont don't you ou understand you ou wouldn't want me 1 am all alt white all white you wouldn't want me CHAPTER IV It now becomes needful to go 0 back some twenty years before the God of Chance ordered the course of Robert Wells to fall Into strange ways There must be foundation It was laid In the home of Doctor Wells VeIls missionary In Inthe Inthe inthe the little village of many leagues lenues from Here and then San Bobble Wells WeBs despite the tine constant reminders of Misako Misako Mi- Mi sako his nurse preferred making the d II f r j H 1 M MP P A a 1 hl Im I'm You Wouldn't Want me All White White All All White You Wouldn't Want Me Me- Me temple court his playground rather than the family garden This was natural The garden sarden had been uprooted of Its single wild-peach wild tree whose blossoms in ht the early spring gave gae off an odor thin as that which clings to the silk of a forgotten robe Doctor Wells Wells' mind was firmly set upon a space to remind him of ot the austere and godly godl home which he hud had left behind and the peach tree was ultra Thus In season snapdragon snapdragon snap snap- dragon and ond canterbury bell would burst from the soft rain ground In all ull promise of erect stern splendor In the summer solstice a n promise never neer fulfilled fulfilled ful tul- filled tilled for the long spikes gave ve birth to nothing save a trickle of ot puny flower and earl early found disgrace upon the baked ground Small won wonder that the child pla played ed between the long walled court courtyard urd of the Shinto temple where the grass was tall where trees tree on either side Interlocked interlocked interlocked Inter inter- locked their moss-grown moss arms him the he wa way where the birds sang and butterflies sought out the dancing slanting sunlight Misako had more than love for the thebo boy bo added adder to the strong affection wann was wa an nn Imperious sense of oC the importance of ot Sans San's missionary onar father Was us he not an un honored servant of that loves that loves little children for love of whom hom hom Misako O al had fled lied her position In the household of ot the Lord LOId nf ot the Thun Thunder t r Gate her people and town anti ami province True Misako did not understand mun many things s Him nm It was said and Doctor Wells did dirl not 1 I 1 rT 1 f I t ui-ii ui U any j t e w U ns mi U son auti o U ui u a iu- iu IH penter thaw low then could a u god but Misako simple In faith faint believed because bemuse she believed I If It were wron wrong to bow before the flowering peach Inthe in inthe inthe the garden before an nn AX found the trunk hn n evel every one knows that the blossoms oms are fIle the visible sign sent b by the Six Goddesses to tell ten that they assure good luck lucle for the coming year cur w h why by did Doctor Wells WeBs worship the pine tree lucking fr ir or spruce which each uch winter season he set In the main malu room told and adorned with ornaments which must Misako figured be pray pra prayers ers ens offered the tine Carpenters Carpenter's Son She Shedid slid did not understand It was all nil very strange Can you guess how It Is that Kayama the Impostor Is able to carry out his role rolo so successfully successfully success success- I I fully 10 TO BE CONTI CONTINUED ED I |