Show 1 T I E SWORDS t J r i i A An Intern ton I Rom Romance ce i I JI v. nI ERMINIE R n l fL- fL RIVES 1 I of RY J nJ ageo rICou eo 1 fe c c i c EEc tc r CHAPTER XVI I The Te Coming of Austen Ware Ware- si k purpled over the rice rico fields as r rain in sped pd on Still Sti the tho man who F that farewell sat at bed in his bis seat Beat spat in iu the forward car 1 sand and nd pallid l he peered out into the looming glooming I Jail fan kinds of thoughts r raced If gh gb h his mind Who was the man man this the resurrection of an ar old ir It that he had never ne 1 I ben en he be left her Barbara Barbara had been m I free It I was either a steamer mer r or one come to quick l Ion m n on a romantic toil soil toi He took tooka ite a case and struck a match hakin haking Had it oven even como come rendezvous She had Q Stone one way the tho man another another dually out of the wrack emer emerged cd impulse caution cauton He had hadJ things J to learn he ho must find out outland he be land Jand la lay He must move lowI slow slow- low I I 1 th the old easy in informal ormal f I 2 Above all I be he must US lay Jay him him- pen to jao po o chance ciance 01 oz a refit re re- re- re ipen fit flA A plan began to take shape His tn arn had bad told her he would arrive okio okio next day Meanwhile he J find out what Phil knew t the train at Yokohama under fr the crowd In 11 a half hour he Doard his bis yacht Two hours bours later to order his dinner on the thee e loi the hotel cool unruffled im im- lately groomed roomed A hundred yards Uhe rhe e hotel botel great floating wharves en eM built buit out into the water The They y gaily trimmed with bunting and andi i iI in geometrical designs A of arches archee flanked them and these covered with twigs of ground round Ware had bad guessed essed these decora decora- were wera ere for the European squadron of whose arrival to to- j had been full fuU t the e looked over the menu a 3 man mannear linear near by rose and came to him fo outstretched hand He was Corn Com Cf DeKay er a naval whom Ih d known know in Europe They had hada hadin a again ain in a few da days s 's since since-at at Kyoto Hospitably insisted on the others other's g bis bis own party of five It i-It I toe are not gregarious re rious and to to- in a sullen mood But with withal i al policy he be thrust th this thia a be bo- surface and in in another mo mo- bowing bowin to tho the introductions eness s' s her sister Bister a chic whose natural habitat be bo Paris the ubiquitous and andlar lar Count and a statu statu- girl irl whose name iamo Ware that of clever clover as a painter Japanese children have just arrived Mr r. r be baroness said I I hope i re not one ojE of of those terrible two i in Japan tourists w. w who spoil ll l 11 our us to stay a month or more said And as for prices I shaT up up as good a ha battle tte as' as as I. I 1 ca can flew briskly hither and her skimming the froth of the cap cap- recent additions to tho he the splendid new ballroom embassy and the inin inin in- in sing in importance of Tokio as a dip dip- t center the center the coming oming oming imperial erry garden party the eI palace durk duek hunt at the tho Shin Shin- 0 and at af the th ar ar- l lf the new new bea beauty uty at at tho the tho Amer- Amer embassy l eal one one I. I commented ting ug iD his eyeglass in in more tightly t means means something in in the tho tr g fingers flattened on the stem I las of yellow chartreuse as tho the said aid We are arc in the tho throes throe of a at present Mr Ware Wari a at first sight Its It's Is I's really realy a are frer re than tho the novelists make out know We Wo are all tremendously I t d. d Ibe know known her said VO lehI leh I other evening in Tokio Mr Ware Fairfax ax ment mentioned having met you ou Ill from Virginia I If think ed She is If very ery good god to re- re Ter r erme me h said And so Miss x has met her fate in Japan H a.- a. i ii i I S jt t t. t 41 SIa T T Vl W V v A iw u. u setting letting igUe is e even that sh shell she'll accept WIde ido a fortnight his wih with a tn tinge c t Evidently the th world of et t discovered that tho new arI ar- ar I 5 frEt Art name was that of ot his yacht rt doesn't play according toJ to J i Vo a or is own chief and ho ought to the other half a chance Ho lives 1 eMbassy embassy compound w too con- con Ih m He monopolized her out- out f JI at the review the other day trust trust I shall chal chat him voice l of ot DeKay broke broko In Wry hair and pansy brown eyes oes l like ike a snowdrift caught blushing I I. mouth mouth like Iko tho smile of a red A I girl that Romney might might have havo slim and young and thoroughbred have tho the capital sentence of or of the American omo cm- cm Ki o to dopa depart rt We are aro actual actually opera Mr Ware Yare said theS the S thc Popular Hardman Comic Corie pany if I you vou please with Is y Clifford Doesn't t that sound sund I roadway It I comes over ever every Shanghai and s 's our regu- regu ring dissipation You'd not be alto join us lS I bO bowed ed over ovel her hand It I Is my to have an engagement here ii 1 then then bal Good dr drank his Ills black coffee alono alone on rr e. e Daunt Daunt Daunt-a a secretary of emA em- em iT A P r rIval val less experienced than I ilof ot j enthusiasms enthusiasms-a a young wooIng from the garden of ot 00 il 11 It I had been a a handful of or days ti B. B own round year few meet- meet mot to offset hI his long and con con- ian 1 ellit hi his hit cigar ono OM of of or tho the hotel wo tine- to him On his arrival Ware Waro t lm to Phils Phil's bungalow on tho Ith a a note eSan not at at homo home ho bo said reIs r ls ho 1 now ow Ho go Tokio ay Stay one ono week week t the o. o hotel there isay hay no hotel hotel House have got got tho address mo must tell Ho lie say aay letter send tel 10 sy Hub Lub sJ had been that night and this this' obstacle In Jn d him to the tho point of ox- ox X- X Ion Ion- With Wih Impatience ho throw cigar and walked out through 1 evening He lie left lef the tho the dorl the tho tho dorl l tr tret pt ct to curb his mood Lot of Us Its length ff was a Jewelers Jeweler's with wih a I beautiful display of or Ide In It Jt was vas wa hung huff a a sign sig i n which a a wry wr smile smie En English merian understood Yare Ward and land handed tho the Japanese clerk icen cigar ease dase cae was wa prea with wih Irregular tho et green and pink pin otone I y f ci t Wrought rought with Ith all of al the laborious cunning the Oriental lapidary IL clerk At his elbow a was as packing a Jade bracelet Into inta a anti and tn tiny addressed box for delv delivery ry bracelet He w wrapped tl Ua brush brush- i It painstakingly with fh a U lIi- lIi Esquire Philp PhIIp Weare tani Cho 36 Tokio h he In entered the the et Ware rare smiled grimly y as a 5 He address In his notebook had always alwa's In his luck Tomorrow To- To ther morrow morro he would find Phil Phi and gain further fur fur- on the matter of jade Sn In bracelets His mouth set set contemptuous lines as he walked to toe tie hotel back To bo be continued |