Show we have changed Chani ged all A T hat by herbert quick and elena mac mahon copyright by the dobbs merrill co V service CHAPTER XI 19 A japanese view of isabella mrs krassan still stood where the soldier had placed her when ausla emerged from loris car still stood looking like a very pate pale plain expressionless onless statue Expressionless but she had thus stood apprehensive eager expectant unmoving all this long ions time she felt humiliated that her address had failed ailed but despairingly hopeful that appeal had not after nil why should she care what loris thought of muelas mother when ausla came down the steps of the car to the platform mrs airs krassin looked at her much as the fisherman inspects the worm or tile the minnow on his bis hook as ho he draws it from the water after a cast for a fish elsh had it been convincing enough iad the great fesh struck at it ausla was dreadfully unattractive 1 this feeling dar darkened kenedi her mind as the girl came down the platform red eyed with weeping pale checked with agitation the cold fury of offended pride in her eyes As it if her mother had been a stranger et ranger muelas Mu glance elance passed her by as she walked with a swaying staggering movement up the platform the abb way they had come the guard paid no more attention to mrs krassin krassan ln who ran after and overto overtook olt her daughter who never once looked at her in tact fact they did not once venture upon a meeting of eyes far less lesa a meeting of minds in conversation but mrs airs Kras krastins sIns face caught and hold the eye of many a passerby passer by as she made her way along the street in what seemed to her quite her ordinary and normal manner lifting tier her skirt to clear the filth of the street with the little pallid red eyed eyd girl following her but what was lit in her expression thought many who saw her was it remorse was it triumph was it madness whatever it was it devoured tier her mind and soul look out I 1 thus shouted an old man with an ivory colored fleece hanging from under his cap and a great white beard all over ills his breast and mrs krassin awakening to a consciousness of things thing 8 about her found thrust into her face the drooling muzzle of a great shaggy black horse ausla instinctively seized her ter mothers shoulder and was pulling her back upon the sidewalk oh irritably I 1 see it I 1 exclaimed llop mrs krassin ras ausla shrugged her shoulders as if to say As you pl please easel the only other word uttered by either of them spoken by mrs irs krassan as they turned into their own gateway this comes of being robbed of our motor car sold said she ausla without replying stepped back to allow her mother to precede her ter and when mrs airs krassin turned as if to speak to tier her after they had gone in the girl looked away and went to her own apartment mrs krassin locked herself in her own loomand room and did not appear for two or three days slie she felt the aversion in her daughters manner and was all the time trying to adline exactly what it meant she could think of several elements in hi the girls thoughts which might make mak elier her averse to intercourse with her mother and at the beginning of tills phase of their relations she came to the conclusion that this mystery of gusins stole state of mind which she felt that site she must fathom was only to be solved by observation of her daughters behavior of her ways of spending her time of her in coin comings ings and outgoings especially the latter site she made such arrangements that she knew where ausla was at all times she watched the girl when site she went out of tile the house to walk about the grounds she grew agitated when ausla approached the gates seemed to despair when she turned back from them toward the house and when she slie came in and went about her ter indoor iddoo r employments mr 4 IC beat her ter breast with mingled grief and auger anger some certain things site she felt that she knew that ilyas ilias life hung on loris loras decision vint that loris would spare that life if ausla interceded intercedes Inter ceded as effectively as she could and that in tile the absence of such intercession their I 1 v isit to lorla hail had made the boys case hopeless that they had bad robbed him film of any chance of liberation which he had theretofore possessed unless the price Is paid site she said over oer and over oer to herself live we have murdered ur derd ailin I 1 there la Is nothing else to dol do I 1 there Is no other way way wit why y d does oe 9 slie she hesitate oh if I 1 could only talk to herr her she b had I 1 1 d heard of people being shot at 1 junr sunrise 1 se and for an hour every morning she pra prayed red that ilya ilia might be spared prayed to god thit that the dreadful ransom might be pill paid before it was too loo late never neer before lie icher her life had bad she been so BO religious she spent hours trying to what hail had taken place between alusha and lorla loris in loris reception room after slie she herself had been turned out of it it she recalled every phase of mu muelas appearance and behavior her 0 yes eyes reddened with weeping her refusal to look at her mother her hei aloofness now were these things manifestations of mal maidenly deny shame were they signs of indignation arid angera anger why had find not ausla looked prettier she could be very charming mrs itterly bought when noth ing depended upon it but now ilya ilyah I 1 ilya ilyah I 1 sometimes she would find herself crying the namo of her son aloud perhaps they were ero killing him bowl now I 1 at such times she would start up to go to ausla to plead with her to cow coin mand her to question her but always she would return to her seat knowing that to do ao this was impossible she sha was quelled by a sense of the fact that no mother had ever said such things to a daughter that according to the standards standard of the old life she ehe would be pleading or commanding the impossible the inadmissible this held her back but tile the forms and conventions vent ions of a lifetime were equally powerful whatever happened she could not speak to ausla about these matters not now not afterward if 1 the girl did what was waa demanded by the new standard of duty which her mother had set get up tor for her even it if they should live iho together to the end of their lives site she simply badano language with which to communicate to the girl her thoughts and desires cut but she heard of oc the subconscious influence of mind over mind that one will by concentration upon another could bend the servient lent will to its purposes she had read of hypnotism hypnotise hyp notise who had controlled the will of subjects so eliat the latter had been ln in sometimes she would find herself crying the name of her son aloud even to tile the commission oi ot crimes site she thought that there was a book on this to in the library but she sha shrank from going down to refer to it she recalled however a lecture she had once heard on hypnotism and the methods described so BO she lay awake at night trying to concentrate her will on Mu gusins sins will commanding her over and over and when she found her own thoughts were straying from this strange tiling thing she prayed for strength to prevail what more could site elie do to sway the girls mind igind if site ehe wore were so false and rebellious rebellions as to betray her brother find and her mother slie she recalled muelas fondness for shakespeare and dimly remembered that lit in one of the plays there was some such demand on a girl us ns this which with nil all her ber soul BOU site sho was mating mat ing upon ausla site she studied carefully a collection of the plays which she had casba bring her found ani and read 11 leasure for measure and was chagrined to lo tears when she read the great sp speeches of isabella rejecting the demands of angelo she underscored der scored angelos Ang clos speech then must your brother brodber diel die and drew black lines erasing isa bel bellas lits answer and tile the cheaper way better it were a brother died at one than that a rister bister by rede redefining eining him should die forever and after this site she wrote false and sinful infill I 1 in the book she found yi clipping from some new newspaper shaper pasted on a page of measure for measure to in which a writer had biad drawn a distinction between japanese standards of morals la in some things and those of western nations TO BE 1113 CONTINUED |