Show THE LORD OF It THUNDER THUI D R I GATE oJ f 4 by cl chel l' l Small 1 t ti r S Sn n ll lt 61 b The Co S CHAPTER XIII XIII Continued Continued 16 16 Bhe sat est on 00 the ede edge of her berth herth untouched troy tray on the serving serving table Gorgeous In Jade green jade green kimono Jade Jade- Jeweled pins pine thrust through throng her hair her attitude altitude one of ot dejection Her lIer facea face a was as Aa pale pille her lustrous eyes eyell dim with Ith unshed trashed tears Her lIer high courage faltered She realized the close contact con on contact tact that shipboard wn was bringing words yards quickened In a a stream to her lips let her go I no hide her hide tilde her ller far fat from Irom those nasty traces faces With the rho Intention Intension of comforting her tier Wells stepped close and touched the gleaming hair halt 11 nil of her fear tear galvanized and Instinctively she covered cov cue ered erect her mouth a with a n hand head Wells ivelle stepped back baek Her IIer fright ht both hurt burt hits him ani end and pleased him Yet Teti confound It even een as all a n Jap he hI a was Willi ae 1 Wells elIR rIfe He had bod Wells Wells' thoughts w 11 ells ells' actions I Here liars 0 O-Hana O Ilana little blossom he ire said turning turning turning-as as I he spoke to take tike the key klY from torn the door that connected the cabins tent fear Is In your heart henrt If lf n worm gnaws your heart henrt do not take takeout out oat the heart but destroy the worm Yoh I 1 Here lIere Is fe the key bey Lock the thedoor thedoor thedoor door little ant oni He Ill returned to Ms his cabin and delved Into a s wooden bor boa taking faking out ant a bitter bit bitter ter orangewood stick a Alo single le dried holly Lally leaf and the Lend bend of a tiny dried shrimp The stick he thrust throat through the holly leaf lent the fishs fish's head he fastened Into a split spilt mode made In ono one end of the stick the other end eod he hP slipped Into loto the keyhole of the door I have ha-e placed n a charm chunn about your room tram 0 O-Hana O he called through the thedoor door Boar No devil may moy enter A haze settled over mer him as ns he threw himself upon the couch Williams Alberta AI Al berta Uncle Jim x whirled before his hIli eyes es In play shadow play l the nurse and his father evil priests chasing Jo lIen his hIli Palen None Tone of his dreams Involved him himself self spIt Ills troubles oars were over or near nearly nearly ly Iy over oVEr oven To all he was was vine Kayama and a was as 1111 treated with deference He Ile WHAI was wa's I perfectly sate safe as ee the great grent lord In Inthis Inthis inthis this he erred Ills JlIA masquerade had already brought peering a es e-es eyes es Into his hili cabin eyes x which discovered the shrimps shrimp's head charm and the tart fart that this lord lard and his wife x were ere oat not ns as married that shut the lord ford was as ays alone In his tits cabin Hut But the boys boy's boys boy's courage a was not at lit lilt zenith He lIe feared He Ile did not lIot dare hs de yet to but attempt attempt but the time would he come could slip the ke key from the door the drat the lord would a wonder that the key kev sins was as gOne but but but- Inter all nil would be hI dark Wells slept Onre One FIlan heard him fry cry softy softly almost ly In steep sleep Kon Elan ja yn a med hll o a y yo 30 o da u du what a n night It Is for love lore CHAPTER XIV One day doy the captain missed Son San from tram the enl e g mewl meal TIle long hours boors of exertion the worry had brought Wells to the point paint where here s he would be he unable to withstood withstand or or tight the onslaught ht of ot any Infectious disease the tIle clean Glenn air of ot the ship hod had braced him and the tile ship hip Itself hod cleared llord from corn Japan with a 0 hilt hill of If health This Tlde tor for n a time time saved him nut Hut a n meAl than usual eaten with rapidity brought on nn a II sudden Redden Indigestion Wells wondered wandered If he hI was about to faint he hp slightly hi fn his a nik noel and ones Intimated that tome feme of ot the hll e of at this rids Japanese Jap Jup noses anese contained potent patent waters He tie had been hlen barely able to get t to In his cabin Strange he thought that therea there a us no nn keyThe key keyThe key key- The steward Ateward reported d to fn the rain that the lord hud bud a sickness The 1111 steward ho had hod knocked There was vas n nn answer hut but he be had hod heard within Therefore he inquired InC nf of the th lords lord's x wife ife who was visa surprised See to It that K l Is III prop prep ed served In la his hIli Illness the attendant attend offend ant lint warned the boy cabin boy who I to I the hI cabin elect a ar away u 11 It was wAR true Cruel The lord of many rice fields tossed told upon the hell bed Soon It would be ha dark Very Iry soon roon Tin TIlt boy hop hurried down below decks darks d pk II and slid a knife under tits his x white hite root coat In ln death alone are lire all men equal a aIt RII as It II now Is III the Ihl radical said I It t wout be te very dark and end the lord would be bl belck tick and lck and alone Wells did not t believe hellece 1 he hI was really neatly ill m. He Ile had hod these periods pectoris o of weakness occasionally none like Ilke this none non I blurred his hie eyes eyell so Rn nor made the ripe furniture of nt tits his cabin hl he ilance he flung himself f upon the Ihl bed heel lie III jut Just 1 couldn't be bl t sick lick lk I It would brine the ships ship's doctor Prying PIPS eves did the Ihl red spots on nn the Ihl wall ull com from He lie couldn't he be sick He ile tossed lOR tose the bed feverishly Ellen listened x when wilen ben the steward Reward ha had brought the nex news R Kayama was vino gh gUen hEn hEnto en ento to silent s spells when he hI spoke poke to n no an tine She She hesitated to call to tn hIm through the door she Bhe feared to 10 enter enter en In ter his cabin Bound se ped through U cried in yn yarn pain ln I lh little fell tell from the lie keyhole 8 as es she ells opened the con con- n door hod hud been beeD goodo good to o 2 ter hr er She sow saw him I Ilag Ing gray grail upon the he the bed The 1 she had hod known was gone one The color of his face fuce Will was th that l lof of f old via his tits mouth seemed stretched retched tit to th the cracking point nether net net- they her turned up at the corners encases oar nor down own but Gut a o bleak blank slit jagged his its face tace Ills His P eyes ees ea were closed The bandage had hod slipped ax away ny revealing re i nothing of ot a sent scar beneath for tor the wound had been blen slight For all the distortion of countenance counte nance Hance he I looked boyish She searched for tor or any shred of reason In him Dut but buthe the he deadly mask told her ber nothing at ot all nh Then his hili lips III's moved moed and nd as as- amazed am n red she heard him Lira spank spi Ills Its f a eyes ea sightless x with Ith fever opened listened fastened u on nn her In one hand he held hello a samurai knife kolte very lean at the blade What Is It San SanT SanT spoke poke nest first In a whisper He III croaked his reply relly Williams I 1 Iam Iam am going to kill roe ou you Kill me Lord Lortt You sold me out You Tou loved AI Al- berta berm You made me lose Uncle Jim's Jims respect That's why you hod me drink wine vine rind and Rr use with with- the There con can be he no 00 other reason cannon I 1 am amnot amnot sin not a fool tool He lie sat ant up ills frame was sunken shaken as ns If It x with palsy Tremendous effort took ook him film careening to fo to his feet the knife tn la his handShe hand hond She turned like a R wild lid creature wild and nod blanched with horror He ito Wl was mad mild I swayed started to run entangled a foot In In Ili her Ion long kimono and stumbled d forward to stay hen herself elf by y the table ratite He lie followed h her r blindly blind ly Iy y Instinctively As he touched her ter onn non she turned 10 to him a n pinched rites face Wells Wllis looked at Jllen fixedly Some of his tits Inner loner rage caught light lIht from the silken touch lie Ile gasped supported himself against her ber and fell tell headlong on the bed again Fever ever thoughts raced through Wells Hells unconscious mind he celled called aloud that thai some sOUle one must shout his Ills name remembering remembering re rl that thus rims the dying may maybe maye be e held to earth for tor the fleeing sou soot Gnu can be Induced to return San I whispered This contented hint him and he lay IRY quietly quietly- t The girl tried to in remember the x words had used all 1111 l n lIh x bit Jt the terrible scene hud hail en then them ar tair away assay What she a wondered was seas 1 afraid of on There something some same thing I Why the sudden departure tl the e long silences the nt lI old o of people on the skip ship the till bitterness which enveloped him Should she he call the tile do doctor tor ma ran was sick Seriously perhaps Yel Ye Yellie lie hI feared people lie he he had bad pro pea reefed her from the priests and ond from fron himself lie He had hod been heen kind He lie was s ns takht taking her to America Perhaps he 1 might even tree free her from this bondage u would slip she x want to go goo o Italy Hotly t ie w dismissed any ny suggestion that she Iohl wished to stay with him Perhaps Kayama needed protection Thus Tillis she might tr repay reillY nty the Ihl debt Me lie I hod had bought her n with Ith money Sure url I lv Iy by Ing with him when al all 1111 would know that he hl In 61 his stateroom state state- room she he would cancel el that Hurt debt Theo Then she Rhe might ml ht be LP free tree 1 II x was us atone alone It x nv her Place Hells WllIs puckered fare tarp twitched urn and hi his tight lips Ilya struggled together us I If working fur tor x words The III little tie robin I bin vine Willi Er very quiet gale ii so w the shrimps shrimp's ilde lIdl I across the door us liS the bunt bout I ml rolled lee gently gentl It was sans symbolic i She shuddered A hen Leafier tier swell touched the ship hll I heating Nutting IIII pul PS the Ih shin Rn swung e like opened the porthole that air revive the unconscious roan imin III Slue lie Ak sky blue sea In welded together In th the th white lox How happy and content she ml ha have hats been tn upon this summer sen sett What did the ml minion women cull Ito I It Honeymoon If It only the man x were ere no noa nut a N Japanese Wells must hove have seen pen phantoms fo fur he hI was sine Ring tg 11 g the bridegrooms bridegroom's y yire ire are married Joyously t In II a shrill It I rill strident voice Thus Thun sing Ring ih th young men of where Well x was nR born The noise nole brought Drought to to the girl th the necessity for or action What hurl bud TI Ts Kun Kung the venerable Chinese Chille foster foer r other father said If I l sicken little ter summon the Ihl priests Slake th the Ih prostrations hp food d before be ht I tore fore the shrine Then hurrying leM I Ibe it 11 be hI too tau lute titre obtain the IIII doctor at lit th tit the mission When the senses eu swoon s urn are Pager euger to depart he has tine latent to brIo Lein bring them Duck back The rhe Ins IaPI sentence she Rhe he remembered dearly With HIth rI deliberation she opened th life til door dear shut led Ird to In the Ihl Inquired of the first man mun where th the Ihl doctor a was ae to be Ge found asked fo for something to tl 19 trine t buck the life sense Her lIer breath came same short as PI the she sited asked It Her lIer face bum burned when she ahe heard the he What wont won't these girls nowadays do o for money r l and felt the tIle eagerly eyes eres of many men log loa ng her One man Inon glanced long enough to o admire the trim silken ankles which h the wind revealed ills His name nam was wan Williams Whenever er given ghen the tile opportunity he admitted freely that he le was an en engineer a who ho achieved the You dont don't want wont that the th doctor Bald aid a when heD the girl explained for far what she he wished the draught Hone you glue gIve Ive him this a a. a pox powder der In a glass ot of f water waltr He tie a will leap deep It If Is III nothing serious the matter he ho will Hill be he better tetter upon awakening nut But dont don't you rOil think Jt tt might be a wise Ise Ise tor for me we to x r-x- r. r amine him Ellen refused gently for tor tear fear of angering an an- geeing gering the doctor No booze bonze gel hll Wells sold aid as aA he the sleeping Nothing at all I 1 dont don't want any None Get out Go way Then with alth a queer ge gesture R t u re of renunciation 1 he le drank Thus Thull closely Wells Hells lingered erM b between fever fl and nil snotty sanity Words shook hIm ilm I of little t teA ten houses h a-h uses uses' and und mighty bridges All As the bromide took effect the he a words became Incoherent She wondered at nt the correct pronunciation the of ot IV IA Vaguely ulI be he must most t Lore have been sensible of at the tle opened porthole Tensely Pager eager inters fingers all unknowing lowed clawed at his hIli kimono baring the throat tp the reeze's coolness lie Ill tossed teased upon the Led bell ed the kimono open opened Id I'd a II bit farther tarther Precisely In a well denned marking circle I saw that the brown skin lit topped I 1 ITo To her hr startled ryes yes the whiteness of revealed resealed skin was suns searing scaring blinding She stood still Her lIer- taco face was wn draw but fl full frill ll of Ih Instant t nt flora flam- log Ing ng happiness a thing s subtle elusive e ecstatic tic scorning scorning- to hide tilde itself f. f The uneasy hand which groped roped undirected undirected un directed was that of her husband A white She had sir had or had hod she she she- feared him had erected a barrier against him Lira which hn had ha i never existed entered Save arP In iri her own 11 mind uld If known own protected her hor against e every every ry on one one himself It r Who was he W Would ull he remain a II Why Would he tell her of It nil What a was ne he going to 0 dot do Now Sow as os if she ball hd ed hU nU of at the time that he wo was vas n a. a man Would Hould she remain as Ae his wife his tits wife She iov loved laved 1 him Surely Surly lie he also or he would not have bae been so ao gentle i and kind His iliA fingers twitched moved mined toward II hershe her did not scald old them but met methe he rho seeking hand bond Ellen knelt beside the Led bed felt Wells Wells' fingers his become even and ond deep There was wan no nn light in the cabin cobin- hEr ler eyes were he heavy he try Over and over or these strange storage new though thoughts thought's s tumbled through her head until her hand tight tightly ly Iy In his hili kimono cascaded 0 PI over the floor In green rippling configurations she drowsed Red Once Ome she started slotted thought that she hI heard the creaking f of an on opened door settled more comfortably against Wells Wells' arm neat A dream drama flushed flashed her cheeks she sill smiled as os sh she slept The cabin boy had find stopped and ond spoken a moment with the fourth bar bar- boy ho A piece of money passed between them and soon n a fiery drink seethed the already x warped Lenin bruin Until this night the cabin boy hay hud had feared that the moment of revenge rp rp revenge for far nil 1111 of the poor x who ha hud bud no rl rice tier must must a w until the steamer landed hooted The thought had hod become monomania the the lord n a knife over tI over the rail roll roll-he be had hod hadIt It letter letter Kayama suns alone nod and sick The cabin boy boy was liS very ery lr bra brave 1 The deck clack a Willi na dirk dark deserted Ien He lie n walked w boldly holAly dox down clown n until he hp nerved neared S 'S cabin 11 hill lie le heard footsteps and shrunk shrank Into the |