Show we changeat all that by herbert quick and J elena mac mahoe 4 I 1 copyright by the dobbs merrill co service CHAPTER XI continued 20 most of alia Shake ke plays ti the i e writer stated are arc quite understandable by the people ot of japan such pieces as aa king lear 1 julius caesar and Corlo lanus for instance fire are rather more in the alie japanese stage of development than in that of the Euro european peah of 0 this day dut but measure for measure falls flat to niko a heroine of isabella for refusing to t i ransom her h c r brother by yielding 0 to angeo angelo Is to the mind of nippon mere insanity to the japanese isabelli isabella so would be ba entitled to praise for thus ransoming claudio claudle Clau dlo it would to ills his mind be no sacrifice of virtue no japanese could imagine a good oster bister refusing tills this claudio Clau dlo sweet sister let me live what eln bin you do to save a brothers life ife nature dispenses with the deed so tar far that it becomes a virtuel on tills this mrs krassin wrote this Is true god wills itt itil then she gave the book with the slip in it to casba the maid and commanded her to leave it on muelas desk open where the passages were marked and with the slip displayed afterward she wished she had not done this it seemed a breach of etiquette and it might work opposite to her wish so she resorted again to prayer she prayed that she might be forgiven for her she told god that nothing had taken place between ausla and loris except what every one might have seen she promised that it if he would grant visit loris might be swayed from violence by the purity and greatness of 0 tits his love ford or ausla ausla she would give him praise for ever and ever meanwhile she watched ausla as a cat watches a mouse decou eagerly expectant of the girls second d visit to loris car for which as sh she e thought of ilya she yearningly hoped ausla on the other hand sought companionship slie she went again to tier her father and found that he had now taken up the writing of his reminiscences of 0 the russo japanese waro war she its listened t cried to ills his stories for hours and it happened that lie he paid a high tribute to the lofty sense of honor of the samurai class in japan when she returned to tier her room she found We measure asure for IlIc measure asure with its un der scorings and markings the clipping and the comments in a disguised hand which she had no difficulty in identifying she threw the bool book from her in hot indignation she despaired of her future she doubted the worth of life itself when she thought of the degradation of her mother that former exemplar of all that justified the existence of a cultured and noble class when plunged into the spiritual solvent of this time which tried the souls soul 0 of f human beings beyond bernd their powers of resistance she remembered what he het father had bad said of the punctilious sense of honor of the Ja japanese pariese nobility and for a moment she suspected that lie he had bad been enrolled in a conspiracy to bring his slaughter daughter to the standard of conduct described in the newspaper clipping but only for a moment did she harbor such distrust lie was too far gone in mental decay to be capable of the pursuit of any sustained object tind and lie he would even in his im beetle state revolt from the sordid purpose of her mother she could find no justification for mrs krassin Krass ln the bitterness of her heart when she thought of her frightened lier her till the contamination of it alit all I 1 she was very lonely an and d tried all the little devices to which her life had accustomed her to pass away the time she opened the lie piano rested heff ingers on the keys and without striking ft a note closed tt and went wandering about the great greaf blah cell hinged rooms the piece she lind had been about to play was one of ilyas favor ties ites she tind had slept for many nights after their visit to loris and now retired early but not always to sleep during the days clip had bud been in a relaxed and passive state but now it seemed as it if it were tier her imperative duty to rise and do something was letting things drift la in this awful storm and the thought tor dented tier her she saw nothing clearly nut but thoughts approaching visions crowded tier her brain ilya vladimiro vladimir mother t the ideas i were twisting plaiting in chaos loris loras too she remembered him with ula his handsome white hands as soft as her own his small curled up mustache almost brushing her lipsa lapsa distant incomprehensible persistent figure 1 I ant am sure he can save ilya she s he said sitting silting up in bed and clasping her knees with her arms Us ile is their idol he oust must be for see ills his superiority to 0 o the others I 1 what he said eald about dot having buying power was said in modesty but he must have power compere campure him to I 1 must mum save ilya and must see lorl lorit ngath but easing ilya will not decide my i destiny no ko matter how this great matter to la solved I 1 cannot live in the same house with my iny mother friy more sly life Is spoiled where icon can I 1 go what can I 1 do how still the house wast was I 1 it frightened tier her she was approaching hysteria end and she wondered it if her mind were ivere not giving away she wondered wandered what hat tier lier mother was doing perhaps she was searching for more passages in books and papers with which to corrupt her daughters daugh tera mind ausla softly slipped out ot of bed and softly went to herra her mothers others door it stood it little ajar and a dim light was shining out along the floor in a broadening zone against the opposite I 1 wall of the passage ausla paused before this opening and looked in there was a faint light in the lie room by which the girl could at first seo see nothing but a shrine over in the corner but presently by the light of the tiny oil lamp burning before them the shrine shrin e several orthodox ibous were revealed reven led and under them an indistinct figure on the floor it was tier her mother in tier her nightgown kneeling in prayer ausla watched for a long time but she scarcely stirred the girl was no philosopher and tills this glimpse into ifer mothers soul struck her with astonishment and wonder she could not fathom the mystery of the female animal fighting for her offspring and blindly endeavoring to use at the same time the weapons reat ions of the spirit and of the world the flesh and the devil against another child the time way may come when ausla will understand tills this but then she elie was too young out but her hate bate lessened a little as she got tills glimpse of the awful struggle la in the soul of another slowly straightening tier her tired hotly body the girl crept back to the loneliness of tier her room CHAPTER XII from master to slave sentries seemed stricken with blindness as ausla walked along the rall railway platform and then down on the cindered cinderey cin dered ground between the tracks on the occasion of tier her second visit to loras but then this was the second visit ills car had been moved along the siding nearer to the main line and as before the way seemed to be always kept clear for it to move out of the yards and out of kazan A man in uniform pointed it out to tier her when she had paused in perplexity at its having vanished from the spot t where she remembered it to have halve stood before when she reached the car the guard a dif different differed feren t type of man from the one on duty that other day waved ills hand for her to enter without an adv petition on tier her part it was now growing growing dark and as she stepped into the corridor which was brilliantly lighted she found herself alone and there was no one in the reception room which was dark save for light coming in from the outside about the curtains and a gleam shining from under the hanging bringing across the doorway into the file inner room iler her heartbeats almost suffocated her it seemed to her that anyone in the car might hear bear them there was none of the waiting here e ither cither which had marked the former v visit isit for before she had become accustomed cus toured tomed to the file strangeness of waiting thus tor for this mau man lie he threw back the hanging and leaving the doorway open behind him stepped lightly into the room and stood as RS tt it waiting for her to explain the object 0 of f tier her call upon him the incredibly grotesque situation truck struck tier her she quaked as slie she thought of her being at the mercy of this stranger clothed with such sinister pow power cr and reputed to be in the habit hnott of making such destructive destruct ire use of it IL slie she felt a chill and shivered lie ile walked over to tier her as it if lie he understood tier her thoughts and feelings and was rather amused at them so you came she thought the words ironical but there was no alron irony y in its ills voice please be seated said lie he with a gesture toward foward tire the divan 1 I was wondering if you would not come I 1 thought you might I 1 wanted you to come fler heart beat high with hope at his words why could ile he have wished tier to conic come save gave to give her good news of ilya then you have good news for me she exclaimed good news of my brother TO DE BE CONTINUED |