Show i I l' l Si INDRo t 0 I U h IV N. I A T i A Aft Int l Ce t l ERMINIE L Author of 0 Jat an n S Sanderson L- L He i. i The Castaway Casta way Etc Eec l i. i CHAPTER XV I I. I iThe he Man pushed op open n the bamboo gate tempo temple garden then paused The Thee e W with whom she had tal talked ed yester- yester a little wa way inside while before f r are an 8 attitude of deepest attention h diminutive on t the c huge huger r thi hose morning acquaintance she sho shoher from om her window Thorn Thor was im earnestly with ih his hs' hs great greate I ig ere e through a heavy glass glas ed d with wih a handle like a lorgnette lson on he said why will wi you per- per 11 arm ame are when I have taught 10 classics and the true divinity of verse It is too sweet for youth youth- On Dna On of these days you will wi be bea a ft a dentist an esteemed person horrible tools prior to the inc removal smal mall hel hell containing several severa my- my souls from the left side of ower jaw iras sara's s 's foot t grated ted on a pebble and with a a. startled started g quickness The ter bent double his face preter- preter stU illy e Thorn Thor thrust thrust the glass and smiled on this o oriental aerial he said to illustrate c r- r of Thy tny own San Sau San ifa slave to the sweetmeat dealer earned med Infant He Etc can write forty and ad recite ten texts cius He also knows many dam- dam facts about abou figures which they Ho has just propounded ion tion ton th that t Confucius was too wo wi wise to 10 tort rt Why is poverty Not beIn being eYs a the Chinese sage I attempted Thus our lesson Sayonara I Iara ara araV l looked after him smilingly Is straitened circumstances Or Oi bent political economy father has ha been ill H for a long Thor replied He keeps a shop some way the th child has heard that to give gl it i up It I troubles r e cant can't imagine existence with with- wih- wih at Lt pity ity I would be so glad to to toI to- to think I could give them tem some- some hook book k his head After you have ereta while you will wf find that sim- sim uly in Japan is not apt to be a aJ to understand J 4 al- al said Sd as they walked along she stones that these tese gentle gentle- gente- gente do not lack the sterner how they grace grae them The here but it I has s ha the velvet Courtesy s and kindness seem al- al with wih them them eho he answered This is the only y seen in the world whose when I i walk wal the street do noto not riot o that I am disfigured made no pretense of mae 19 Believe Beleve me me she said gently genty luo no disfigurement But I 1 under under- Bi My father lived Hed all al his life Ie in adLor adLof blindness blindness- I came came from him She ware without lifting her eyes to itlie was oas staring at her strangely Then your father is not U er w was s born borm- glanced at him as a she spoke for been U muffled and nd indistinct wasTa deep furrow in his forehead AA m H seen before vu UI U San HUH he w s dark I am like my w w looking away fr from rn her toIe toe to- to p Ie e Jane Jane where here beyond the hedge lw p singing half half- half W in a repressed mother died ded too when I r was a aIrl Irl iri She added so I know re really l te bout about him him a z looking out across ss the wide vide there here the roofs sank out of sight sight- slope Q of Ao Aoyama ama Sudden- Sudden tm a curiously CurIous complex motion moton r Above those far tree tops in slow sweeping concentric concentric cir cli a great at machine a a. 51 gi- i vulture She knew instantly what hat and r there fa flashed hed before her the da day at Fort Logan when a oung lieutenant had crashed to foe her eyes In a shattered aero- aero un sire vre to t. t fill faU what what ce inn n to her In that instant ien bout her Thorn Thor the blue c fade and she sh stared dis- dis disna n n-a n a gulf in whose hose shadows ii h dIsastrous the terrifying t the tho e le I 1 love loie him I love him m d i. i t tb peal like ike a temple bell c r brain brin Even to herself she sher r vreny it t agaIn ecamp eca aware of music near at her back to the tho present e sound of the organ in thep the tho p pel the wa way gLup she was struck by the ex ex- ex- ex tent Lont Thorns Thorn's face He seemed held captive by some dire ton Ion I It brought to her mind that y Vi not but but remember such things wee most precious to me with feith Wit a sudden swelling g of theat the he heat at I go 10 now she said The Thee The t tobe e dedicated this morning in Is playing paYing for tor tho the service I h ii way along the stepping- stepping I th the bamboo gate As they ap- ap thi ugh the interstices of the ledge she could s eee ee e the figure with Mrs Dand Dandridge ridge e entering the chapel Ithe the temple across the yard ard the its is tapping and the tom-tom tom mingled th the h soaring harmonies jf theand theer the theon er liand and on tho the paling she spoke I gl I didn't tell lell lel you ou It W was I the Ith th chapel It I is in the I mem- mem father fater See there is the memo- memo io They were putting it in n a little while ago i 8 l oking at Thorn or she v n His IHs face overspread with ss ke that of at death He stood en marble The morning sun chapels chapel's eastern side striking n casem casements lighted the window rose with wih a ten tender tener er raIding raJ ra- ra J Iding the dull yellow aureole of o the master and giving T loW to the ta fare e beside him him him- and passionately tender tender- or was wa staring with what mos most an agony of inquiry slid shE said gald softly sofy the die dis- loved lo She drew bosom of h her r dres dress the locket and opened it It The painted from this this the the only pic- pic pl- pl mv father Id js s lie took it He I Jong s and earnestly earnestly earnestly-at It at the at ee on its 11 lid Barbara Barbara Bar Bar Bar- fax x he hE said sai She thought his Tinder der the gr r ray y mustache ir a Buddhist l I are you vou not not And KAnd Buddhists believe n beleve the ead are always ab abOut ut us Ih p perhaps he sees the i into her hands hatt- hatt haRt haRt- said an as if to himself lf H HI thrOugh a hundred d existences 8 Were re moist and shining I Ou think that fihe be he said hapel nape the bishops bishop's gaze praze aze kindled lout over Sr the the kneeling kneeling- people s h thee the that that in this place to thy service thy holy Worshiped d in truth y uh all It generations generatIon and he bishop carried across E J I the lane and entered the window of a temple loft where a man sat sal still sun and gray gry and quiet IHO He ma on his face with a terrible cr cry My child he h cried in n a breaking braking oi voice e. e My 1 little little child whom they ha e have robbed me of whom or-whom whom I L have never l known in all these al weary eary years cars You have grown away from me me-I me 10 1 I shall never novel have you ou now Never Never never To be continued |