Show J Q A to d LiY LJQJ 4rLJLZO77c I Copyright 1006 by Dally Story Pub Co Because of rouge skilfully applied the little geishas cheeks were rosy and because of paint her lips were very very red like threads of crimson crim-son silk She wore a klmona of cool shimmering shim-mering gray with storks in erratic night all up and down it her bluo obilike an overgrown pillowwas adjusted with care and atop of all was her face Illyfair under the high satiny black coiffure her slanting eyebrows eye-brows ah Art helped Nature there her eyes at once luring and childlike and the scarlet line that was her mouth When Raoburn lately arrived In Tokio camo to the teahouse under the wistarias his beautyloving nature rejoiced re-joiced and ho told her that she was like roses and gray mist O Taya San looked pleased though all she understood was the young Mericans smiling eyes but sho poured his tea and clapped her shell pink palms together for more cakes and when another girl shuffled in they danced in movements as graceful grace-ful as rocos swaying In the wind It was late before Raeburn remembered remem-bered that he hadnt stopped In Toklo merely to visit teahouses and that he must get back to Dunns rooms as fast as a rickshaw and a longlegged coollo would take him Ho was comforted to find that Dunn had turned in It saved tho bother of explanations only a sleepy servant remained in tho hall to bo gently prodded and kicked into wakefulness There was a lato and hurried breakfast break-fast the next morning after which Dunn as a good servant of governmental govern-mental red tape wont to his office leaving his friend to spend the day as ho liked He was pleased to loaf throughout tho morning to write a few letters to scribble some of the Inevitable postcards and late In the afternoon clad in creaseless white to travel via rickshaw to a teahouse certain teahouse with purple curtains i of wistaria flowing all around itO it-O Tayi San Was there and tinkled away at an instrument that seemed across a-cross between a banjo and guitar Raeburn sat himself down with easy grace in the crosslegged manner of his vlsavls they laughed together over he quaint efforts to talk Merl can and the task of teaching was so pleasant that when 0 Taya San lifted her thick lashes and said You come gainsome more ho answered Sure quite as If ho were in Toklo only for the pleasure of talking to pretty teahouse girls Shos beautiful ho confided to Dunn a few days later after that lean jawed cynical person had been jeering jeer-ing at him for going daffy over a mere teahouse girl kept there for such chumps as you My dear boy replied Dunn languidly Interested theyre all beautifulIn Toklo but youre bound for Manila on serious business matters and then home and let mo tell you if youve a sweet t j f eJ a t x I I 4 I uy I t 1 eta 4 h I Itilli II a I w IWyI fit f V 1 1 I 1 UI I t i f l g JiM J r if 11j1 I k 1 j a > f iifE I i O Taya San heart back In tho States better let this little whatslicrnamo 0 rays San That it Well let her and all her kind alone even a geisha may have a heart you know Raeburn towered above him hand some flushing with anger Thats the limit Dunn I never broke a heart yet and Ill not begin with this little beauty Ills companion laughed a laugh of unbelief but ho told his irate friend to calm down and wheedled him Into going for a ride Now Dunn know his Toklo woll likewise his Yokqhomn perhaps that U why ho mod It a point of trotting I Raeburn around to the flint he know and giving him a 4 meet n lot of friendly English But the boy was blind to v charm they possessed bllnj memory of n girl back home no other face than his his ep only for a little figure In a j mona for a faco with welconfc with red lips pouting child his kisses So ho forgot and continue remember in spite of Dunn atonal protests and the smllt of those nice English girls The teahouse under the t knew him for a frequent p i r r r There had been other Meriwi none like him Taya San blossomed like torn drous flower in a new klmonad with glints of silver woven tIt t-It She danced she sang to It ongs of Nippon and ho tangll lor she was a willing pupilE his speech Perhaps too thero ww things he taught her for what a pretty geisha learn but lore There had been other He but none like him when le straight and tall fair as a ICE blueeyed with bright hair < from his forehead with his t of Immaculate white drill fellIng fell-Ing smile who could resIst lb Certainly 0 Taya San could 4 u 1 Raeburns luggage was plied hall his steamer was due tote I next day for Manila and ben lacing himself with cigarettes You cant take her aloft know l was Dunns sllencel remark Who Your pagan friend 0 Tip who else Dpnt you know continued forming one that the girl lit I I owned body and soul by the told Fold F-old devil who owns that teato others like it dont you kIWI you would have to buy her I you would buy horses at home Dont I cant stand It jumped up pushing his cW noisily pagan or not slave shes a dear little girl and broke up at leaving What about her came the t query J For answer Raeburn saw which would have to be rcp on this page by dashes and H2 belt out Dunn heard him in thl whistling for his rickshaw The boys a fool ho mused hes got a lifetime to learn it III 5 A curtain of purplo blooffii > to the breeze In n teahouse f clasped and said goodbye and t againclinging arms and P eyes tears and klssesklsset tears Ono to stay weeping that to be a geisha Is to be hand < h-and one to go whirling back city cityThe ship was gone and tt day all cruelly alike Coll0f to v other coolies dashed up house steps and other Men whlto Bulla sat at the little but lifo was not tho same Because of rouge skllftw1 f the little geIshas cheeks were nnd because of paint her threads of very very red like son sill her gray klmona w lute a silken mist and storM I flight trailed all across Iti oyos of 0 Tayn San were del BJIO did not answer when chef her name As for Rnoburnbut n1ebU never know |