Show yellow y tm arah men wa i by JEREMY LANE copyright by the century company CHAPTER ill continued 4 when repairs finished the lie un sloop nosed out of the ho liny bily and breamon the lie tani blue the had Milli whipped ped three into thy the crew anti tile lie till ind loved thell bliem t tho unite mate also swedish but Inell inclined ned to silence had frightened two negroes tip lip from tho the linck i 1 coins of tile the alt city to nicil ill to the ibe quota quoin A hindu wild eyed johnd jo igind ind bony tit nt the sheets frequently pausing to 0 o weep nt lit ills his own ignorance on these later inter sil silence clIcO of it the nito was broker broken their cook n salty irishman whose life was m for some reason forfeit in ili the f got bold districts tho the bay cursed 1 l f with a frantic ills his goodwill good rood will to tile newcomer new nom comer shephen marchi when tile lio boy confessed in himself a lite of celtic blood stephen Stop lien wall vian ahli ins were filled with strong drink labor tind dreams tho nio captain imd find rend three book in fit tind lie io now rend read aloud to fit his midshipman they wore were tho travels of marco IWO a ass less on the art of toxins find the the pages of these tareo golden fragrant ruid ter rable were written afresh on n the enger listener tener lie he strove to how they bit ills ito ile slaved tit at the k ropes with lite ho yellow luan ill and some j laugh laughty td jah wah tham but they val belied film with narrowed eyes and A A lowe lowering 1 of the alio chin lind even dow done gan nt at the stove practiced practised more care ful fill gayk in ili stephens Stop liens presence I 1 in tile tho evenings thero there were tales of china and tier lier deep nind deserts angue yet irresistible these yellow strands wert warn drawing him to mid AIM asia alln lordliness stirred in ili his breast tho the oynie was nn an of months gale iut cut hut but stephen march luul had nindo made lila ills own inner arrival hut but lie was wai twenty when lio lie reached the inshan in shan mount mountains hins beyond the lie 4 china wall the caravan had left him nt the village minn klinn for they worn turning southward to cross tho the lio ito tind proceed upon tile iio anu plains over a trail that hat might once lieve heard merchants whispering tile tho news of jesus here march waited having iving lit no gold then with the ur pent gent mysterious summons still lintini ing blint him lie was forced to turn lite lila hack back upon the lie desert and return to peking looking for money the english girl whom ho he married tn fit the alie square city of peking found in him the quality of lordship they prospered together when lio lie wits was twenty seven ho fie went again to the grip lit in the long wall in tho north tin iio huil had chmels and provisions and n radiant heart the unknown tren gure beckoned A d alm ial i remembered throne seemed walting waiting i out there nut but the sleeter sleeted storms of winter came him and ills caravan diminished until the robbers fell upon them and left their bodies for the wolves bolves when spring should come only one other returned with stephen marchais March lils his chiney boy who had gone nind with desert fears x tito the L english wife was in ili m mourning our ning anit a small child was learning to walk walk in the he garden court of tile tho pe ile king house then the throe of them went to Atner len where stephen found i i nuch much gold fold and litt ills englishwoman lind had ess difficulty in teaching tile tho mother tongue to 0 her son andrew i she longed for tier her lords lord arid their ways ninny of them long since turned to quiet dustin dust in some abbey aind the spirit of england roust must anve heard for was taken tak en into the bosora bosom of 1 l lahat assembly her danti sharpened the old destra in stephen und when andrew was wag sixteen silicon fattier father and son had journeyed journey l together to tho the far city of peking looking arid and to tho great wll vall and the elal plains of ilo iio anu andi aw T elarch had told LevI levinston niton rf chrtt failure tin po charged charge with beauty arl 46 bow the alerce treat heat of summer had withered tile beasts liow how their inspired trail neross across tile sand bund crusts ci lists and along the rim of at gray pits lind find been dotted with fallen men and camels the traders lind had warned them arid and cursed their purpose but they lind find pressed on away from the lie trodden routes to north and south straight into tile west always westward andio and to the lie north until a party of dusty horsemen had ridden them listii down clown rot robba tid them tin and turned their back was useless andrews fattier spoke a language they under stood yet they gave gae hut but one reply broken with defeat the white mail and ills son bon arid two rivers drivers returned to tha li village of shan sung their camels coes were black arid loose with coming coining death andrew march when ho fie was thirty left lills his father in locking and started westward with a summer caravan ills wife went with him a elgh born irish girl who refused to sany hack back something in the great gobl lint licul magnetized tier as well ifer her lovers loners quest guest ans its her ter own on sho she loved tho twisty old villages of the interior loved tile the fog over the he millet fields the peasants pen who went about half dead with age arid disease and site sho wits was really ready to sing tile tho sun came through upon the dripping wes tiles of at a farmers fan ners cottage hut but site she could not stop in ili tile tho pleasant plen sant katics that wandered up tip from the marshes like andrew in fit whom site believed slin sho wits as yearning for the lie secret of the desert though site c could 0 uld give no reason in the world MO anre exiled she dho lind find sald bald rind possibly she thought exile would end if they could lidid the henrt of af 0 through that flint memorable bullit ner rho tin lind ridden beside tier lier androw andrew march a southern southe approach from tho the clion chen ann brenk in tile the wall where tile the forests are thick in ili ati autumn tile tho camels grow brew fill fat tin mid tile the winter months found them plodding through the lie arnin and snow of the sheltered ridges ridge spring edme and the wanderers turned nor northward hward following tho the clearings clen rIngs through the woods 1 heart bent high but as they journeyed Jouni eyed tho the trees fall failed in tile the rocky carth and nn an unreal summer skinnier suin nier stiffened the spine of wery caniel the sand blazed on till nil sides aides sparkling upon worn rocks androw andrew had annl striven to smooth nil all thing for lils ills elthon slip slie laughed nt at ills hla worries sho she ans drawing closer to tile the heart of at beauty and romance they linued in a bleak settlement where it lind had once passed NOW isow but n 11 liuddy 8 spring pring 1 slid summer bent beat into nto their bodies 1 child was via horn born the only new clean tiling thing within a thousand miles Iler perhaps haps the immensity of sky the staring emptiness of tile horizon nt at fectea the rosy newcomer there was na no wall of sorrow from her tiny tin ups lips only n deep drawn murmur imin mir in their hut but tile tho tartar woman gaun gaunt and tand halry was tin nn unsuspected iril miracle of tenderness anil sagacity in ili the following spring when lien the glare of the daytime was vaa accompanied by sa spelling elling hent heat andrew with his wife and child set forth there was no trail tho the camels were uneasy andrew aris worn lie iio longed to go on its as II lethna thila did dd yet tile tho impulse to turn brick back was strong within him III hut t she lind told film I 1 lightly itly and perhaps truly that china to tho the south and east cast would bo be quite ns na inconvenient and much less sanitary than the pathless leas land before them tho the child gravely regarded sand gand rocks rind tho the clear sky arid learned to laugh happily whenever andrew atil to take tier A loll doll was made of silks rind a jackal bono bone A shining ierard was MIS also added to tho alarca family for tier her entertainment tho the beasts grow grew thin and dry tho the wind a monster serpent of the air swept before them and over ever them thein reddened tho the cornels camels eyes and darkened their milk in Hit hnas cheeks tho the color deepened and site refu refused sedi to turn back andrew lost count of 0 tit the days two of tile pack animals won yet killed for food rind drink anti and a diard went vent down for the lack of tho the anine the baby girl prospered and flina whispered tier songs under the tha star light of a grotesque world tho the riders canil front from out tho the west it little to the north they appeared a dozen or moro more huge men mount v eil d on short ihor legged horses shaggy land and acro ere silver tuen men their movements ns incomprehensible na as licar their words they circled clr cleil nebout tho the young fattier father ns as they drew tn in closer lie was reedy to firo on them and light it out hut but lilli loggi bec begnino atile suddenly rud denly ly weak ani nm tile tho sky reeled idled earthward and when he it was deep night the desert was silent and horrible ills ilia body netted felt thick annu ani clumsy then lie ho round found tho the tiny athly still clinging to ills his shoulder Bh aln re diey find blown it the lie polso poisoned tied darb under the skin andrew lind had licchi unconscious cons clous for hours ultima eithna arid and the child were pone gone madly he idich kicked ed tho lie chinich arid kneed in the ho pale far light of tile heavens ho hep thought lie he could follow tile the tricks of tho horses li orsea uti WM able to 10 to lo so BO without difficulty but found to ills terror that each rider had taken a different direction radiating out from the point of attack lie ile did not know which to follow ile ho was alone sanity left jilin him the camels whimpered tin and started back the lie way they lind had come andrew roused from his delirium in ili tile tho hut but where ahei e ills his baby clelen had been binni and the familiar bearded female was watching him fever eliud field belli him film in this hut but for many lays days from caravansary caravansaries caravan caravans saries arl Cs to tit alio 0 south lio lie gathered Ka up camels rind and men ond end horses provisions and started northward again in of ills his own most of the men refused to ride with jilin beyond tile the trees reea into the forbidden loll den fail bright eyed alstrin prevented although it n fow few consented to lie lic company coi ninny tile whIten imn softly moaning ang wind wand covered their tracks ns as licy went they moved in large irregular circles always mortill searching until they deserted andrew for a mad ninn stephen Step lien march came caino to find ills son and ended these desperate wanderings lie ile pieced out the story andrew could riot not tell and gently guided film back to peking A ransom was raised great enough to impoverish the house of now to carry tile ransom to the riders cattle the british expedition and its failure Is still on tho the tongues of 0 cor maln old timers out of thirty stal wirt wart sweating sun mn helmeted men tour four staggered back to shan sung with a title of skill rounda that brought bitter death and whole mirages of liell bell their mou thIngs were not taken down 10 vil officially tho the stories were tinctured with lunacy so decided the lie wise listeners at the legation estlina march was never found in ill eighteen 3 yours cars some of tile bitterness luid had faded out of tills this for andrew march ills his ways were as recondite us as those of ills his fattier father his desires far lung flung in shadowy worlds to him eathna was lest but not forever ills 7 jee if it aint con Lt ivington sorrow was waa never it a blank lie ile realized how completely an easterner lie was liow how oriental in ID character tho blessing was that it gave him film a chidnese patience about tho the time that con levington wits was tile deep places of america and lipping dipping in rather freely for a young oung person andrew marcha March 8 attention lind had centered upon dice clive aling mang newly arrived in dory street this chinesa shared ills business with no man intentionally bearch had been so light a shadow upon him hint tile the attack in the house was a real surprise levington nail but worked delicately and march himself to hope as lie he had not dared hope for eighteen years ile he had seen a pecullar peculiar promise in the way levington lind had made that stampede down the street in cincinnati con was closet cloa to tile tha I 1 elements had imagination vigor and a laugh in him were cente centered reI now novi nil all tho the hopes of tin an unhappy man inna 0 0 11 1 on oil the night train con secured a section and ns as it n precaution slept in to upper berth lie ile inserted himself between betwee ll tile the stiff brown browa pullman blankets and stared for it moment up into tho the close curve of tile the car roof lie ho thought of the parchment map against lila ills ribs tissue athla in its tiny leather sack back resembling n mongol SIon jiul clin aliann lint hut in this utilitarian rather than religious rel lelous so marked as to guide bilm and of at the two unusual trien men messenger lie he was mid and wha hail fill filled tit alie pouch in his belt with heavy collia celii ond and paper hut but tit tic lull JIM of the he rushing train tile clicking monotony of tin the wheels the fresh clr lint shot in through the lite and were on an organ ism newly tuned to health and lev ington fell asleep lie ile took his next mom mornings ings wall walk along the swaying males aisles train from corick to coach lie ile caution lon and felt again ft a sense of well being tiong th breakfast coffee find been good the train was long lone nil and fast ile ho liked ta t stretch ills his ills spirit rose willie while awaiting his turn in tho the hinr ani bers chair lie he saw a biguri allne into the smoking compartment cori con felt the jerk at ills nerves tho the man was short and stocky with if 11 very largo large cigar dis figuring ills his mouth in a browncheck brown check ed suit of clothes tant gave youth tc t ills his appearance despite the gray bris ties that were cropped above ills his ears eara be beneath the rim of a brown derby jee it if it aint cori con bevington feving ton 11 said the flashy person throwing out ill a stubby but newly manicured right hand ban how 11 ow are arc you stub never liner finer son ion its great to se set you where you been keepin your self they tell roe me you are dittin th strait and narrow narrows how about A it who told coif you that returned lev ington with a laugh dont we nil know it exclaimed stubby taggart aint saw boil you at a tile club since christmas was down cincinnati way said con aware of another backward rut rul on ills his nerves im no good in cold lut but you suro sure do cat up them nights in spring aint I 1 saw you do it conniel connie t when thil the weather la Is wool 3 and soft and the winter linin goes goc off your taster and you feel a dro drought aught comin on last you till snow sill les fles again stubby cackled with head thrown hack until the he derby was in danger tho the other men in the compartment found it difficult to be as aa bored as t they ey wished to appear 1 I guess they hall had a spell of hot fiol weather down in cincinnati they and stub set met himself off lu in another fit of laughter lulng t on nodded grinning then taggart lowered his voice discreetly and whispered in his young friends ear car on the level now liow how tile did you keep from gettin a ride ilde in tile the blue buggy they tell me you had find everything your own way with 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