Show la t h fellow how men I 1 r mr JJ sleep and boull k I 1 by oni iet jeremy tilt lane e 6 J ind to I 1 grated by hakwin MYERS d y your copy krisht by the century co CHAPTER VIII continued B 1 W 11 jd 1 athe I 1 gl irl keilt tit and drew tier pur par fell I 1 about her tier losing herself with U 1 0 ison flint was as scented like cin T not musty wine nn aged slave eroin e flom the bm bower er and came crime I 1 afore although altho uh the monarch s could not ELIO for a cloud 11 tho tile bore a ejler r rj ler in lit hie its hands and over film ley yati t oh uns it of white auba lie 0 spread 1 the satin upon the lie its lecture tile 10 und ond ahn thin 11 spinning 11 upon in tb eJai of dull silver sliver I 1 niter aster it ja 11 until 1111 its erv v stillness blent nith Q 0 ottily of the drug levington vt ia ho he should go anny from lie the 1 ile unshed to keep from dream potpie put pie as os too curious to leave f I 1 chaki tode toder odor r from the bollom bo bowl I 1 touched 1 I 4 memories in him film rind thlu lili t auf juf js more real lhnn the ernce grace of brown rown limbed dinald te fillier jar stood motionless be ased gray finger the juggler r ida fits arni arm and ho the jar re us near lie the nion inca as heavy and he the spicy per me overspread the valte anan ot at the akron jacon tried to retain the tile solid VI I jyo alto re that his this druff drug had in lit dory street that it had lind Y ed ills own fattier and he breathed I 1 1 11 ll the file pil old anger shar in hart 11 3 swore to settle this mat ig Tint KJier privately or for his tits govern the moment ho he let lot go 1 unit ell kuyk he lie could not ot avoid 1 tho ncik nd 0 know ans 0 as he lie plucked the magic iru ap his bosom and began to pour alno 1 upon the square of white bilte cloth remained spotless I 1 dry at thia this conclusion the he ruurt dipped into ho the bowl boal and aldre althe t Ml the upon his hi own rits 1 kea tyes witt strong hands had found lev ler atoa odail they came out or of the world d ean unable to hold the rude ruda id 1 the tile hands bonds was satisfying to aa 7 it aide greatly in throwing off ifft I 1 ts et of koresh nur iI biard ard him upon his lite roof again at it guard nt tit the head of the glick con cursed himself hiro self for having hie his only chance chalice to seek a way roil about the high inclosure of the tile sun picking hia his way between doubt and evidence J a depressing to remember flint li hour hur of ills departure from J arh house ho longed to find and talk things out with their best possibility was mas to find lit afas 4 somehow by whatever policy m hey ey would need nerd to cooperate in such for JUMP to piny play it exactly together ucb had no heart but he lie pcs ns ring a brain the himself gift t n clean thread of 0 nerve any by which be he might cori bider nn an and so levington sought lf tt tight ioffe noon a n stronger stranger appeared at uri OM of the stairway with a curt w biad d greeting for the prisoner he ile wimps whaps a slave and et a person ire I 1 j a aliened man with nar nor 41 alvers CIN canese Inese hig tits face a desow and furrowed checks like nt has hug never fallen he etue as 1 bly clean his ills tunic elvans on off ot tit smell of recent laun dIng A it ins in his old hands stood out as he lie again signified leya kiefs superiority m over er all living men ow salaam was uns merely the tau non command to follow A dou i AliAr mas crossed upon the ser suggesting eug gesting tile strokes of i i awo on a n single errand now 0 omaej o lips formed the 1 anglish I 1 come AT 11 e akas nothing to lose so ley p nas as willing it might be an op though lie rather feared it with his ills delinquency in the mutter of race blending they pro fire jette through the ho inner corridor corridors eer burning lamps ct of alo alabab balt did not turn in beneath the afi owed arch of the throne room in 01 they A ent on to the end of the the old chinese unused a closed door con heard the ifa ril bof andrew bearch fie opened t tb e eythor or and rind entered yi etrola stood beside a long mis os able which were books end and a lamp an american college pen e teab I 1 ana tras pinned above a brown mission P 1 aynik there were sofa pillows end and a bof boo books ks A kodak and a riding faung fb ung froin from a dagger stuck la in the me A hair r was set met before illin 04 f the windows march sat oat upon the arm of the chair fingering ering the lace curtain con stood still till near march woo a young girl who seemed subtly afraid of something somi thing of levington himself she nore it blouse open at the thront throat and a eurt skirt of the smartly defined mode of american avi following the line of her tier blonder slender body her timidity was neer brightened pleasure the face VM sun tanned the aei held a diamond here was the lovely golden brown hair that flint lind had lawn flown tree free upon the tile gray cloak of file rider the anine flint thu princess of a 3 ent esterday erday had bound up hah in court fashion bhe bho MS uns looking nt at him bill again 1 it ans bearch ho 1 loke flygt rind the lie soung man sav tint flint ho ike hid irid tear tears in lila ees ills 1 voice was ins unreliable just now 1 I lieve e found my little girl I 1 evington bud with fill nn an inner tidal idal ae ne andrew march the girl 11 a e hands and eho she turned to him frankly frnnk ly he lie ans as 1 but our little mother 1 athria 11 lie ile kicked lit lur r hair and she placed her tier hand u upon pon ilia alln o 0 ns as if it to to ans inso his ills all slie ile wils froll beside the eterno of tile rands fa ads she he uld did not embrace him and march M not riot to expect any demor istra tion of sentiment hu lie regained self control an and C con on alth nn an effort to rats Is con levington 1 I he enid sold to lie tile girl to con my daughter helen ifer name leaped in cons coils heart he lie bood ovir her tier hand rind found lit him acif murmuring I 1 PrInc princess ests in to the blur of his fits I 1 ward nard excitement her tier voice ns tilt like sunlight ne as it falls rich land nd fullow across nn an oaken he lie va its strongly affected by it there vas as an embarrassed moment during which con I out at the window at tit lie tie moving branches of the white onks he baling bulk to add lit it la is a areat priNt privilege lego to be uro um boned helen said simply I 1 1 I iun nin not bure u how to aspea beenk k I 1 never saw a it white man up to tills this hour she intended this to be a compliment for she the was smiling vet he lie could not forget the fact flint die site was the royal creature who he had glanced the throne room yesterday why have lime they been so extremely to keep us miny aw ay I 1 he wondered aloud it I 1 ts asia ehe she replied and truly lip fie lind forgotten for Rotten that thero there was ns no mistaking the grandchild of the aged stephen march bhe she awni the embodiment of nil that men hold dear her eyes made ninde bold t to 0 tell nil all flint in another would have been held secret it was lie the old story amin 1 perhaps hir days in thie this desert fastness had been a monotony of inno cence but they had not nindo her amile n blank con could not esti estimate mitte anything beyond the fact that when imaged slightly beside her father deeply searching for the right mord ord her young grace was matchless do not be sorrowful bhe she whispered to her father bearch nodded yes that Is right and rind his lite face brightened as he her she crossed the room lightly a rap id tilting gnit that somehow som chow expressed the far for eastern feminine yet the clenn whip of tile west wae was there niso also and through her tier personality these qualities were a st smooth rooth soft madness to I 1 evington he ile was an au are that nil all the journeys of hs his life lind find either ended here or just beggin all the alluring a intimations flint had troubled the lad ind stephen march when hen he had crossed america before the days of railroads were pro en in helen the same that had raun him against the winda winds of the pacific no so long ago ngo the kinait unrest flint ani led him film deep into cathay beyond the tartar aall all to ho the bands of mystery and death perhaps in some dim o 0 ny he lie had fore sensed this daughter of his line with her tier fatal dominion it princess in the gobi I 1 it la is most delightful dell ful you coming here she said to 0 o C con on 1 I think I 1 ive ve aliv itys headed this nuy ny 11 he lie said because he lie believed it 1 I cannot imagine tile courage that brought you eal oaf I 1 iho lite princess stis mo afo la Is very con fung tuAng yes it might have bove been simpler it if I 1 ahad had known replied levington and march was smiling broadly now slie she had finished rearranging the awny lilles on the table and with a cour courteous tous Orlen movement of the arm ehe she indicated a deep clinar for her younger guest levington went ft to tt it turned it from the window offered it to her lie ile felt nearly royal himself as she accepted andrew march pat in tile window seat and levington contented himself with the leather sofa flint had been brought in pieces like the 11 furniture from grand ids id tho the college pennant was uns over his ills head 11 1 I have learned 1 said helen that white A title men are really white flow I 1 we are a bit tanned 11 admitted her father I 1 but for that matter BO so are you white people usually stay under cover when the sun chines shines that ie to a part of tradition I 1 had not known ehe she eald said 1 I hall toll chee mine allric why asked levington lie knows known but jt A la Is not written ond and all the tradition of the world la Is written here since the day days of the tow tower e r of folly you know that tau nunn ie Is to be the school tor for tho the perfect age chee ming MIS tradition ie Is the treasure tren aure of life I 1 rather an oriental statement sug ye yes I 1 rejoined con 1 I could men lion ono one or two tuo thine to 0 o bo be written into his hig library you are laughing nt at mo mc eald laid helen sternly not nt tit still nil replied con hastily Ime I 1 only tho the world orld Is to buch such a large place 1 I understand said the princes 11 concil conciliated 1 I did not riot suppose 11 her tier fattier alil said that flint consider d clico sling ming aa tie beriou Berl oiNy ay am n sou do do I 1 si sl cak th nhe u naked asked ignoring tho the worda of imir 1 father ou do assured levington beau ti fully counting the who live ie te yond tho the in the rock baies to tile south na I 1 ull 0 11 an tho the arkers or kers in tho tile pits fills ea eastward and those ho ile I 1 deliver the ines of their fruit il helen ien I 1 aused to align her tier N english then lien pro loro 0 it d 1 mast s cat of the tile city and the falio lio adnell within tho the mails alls tie tl e cristo of merchants too rind tho the women of it tile ho eulace who lelou to the tile moni mon there arc are many ninny many souls in the keeping of chee mink bling including our asked uv ingwoll IllK tOll the cess felt the trouble in cons heart and did not riot know how low to r reply properly so to me merildy rilly nodded 11 1 I nm the only white person parson nt at court or I 1 elsewhere they say that once nn an c annie nine I 1 did not ale him he lie died before ho fie could lo 10 rind legin 1 1 his family faintly con beann to realise afresh how dif lit ferent her tier tr nning had bes bean n to speak biml of matters in lit america tho subject of breeding Is I 1 with propriety disc discussed used only in regard to cattle but con berning human beings never until aft bruard aheu too 00 oo into levigton enid you have no difficulty with tilt the Enel lih speech helens elena II intuitions were bridging lne tho the calls of lonely denra in n her tier life she ent ching up with the tile world of her bithers and this mall a bren budness buil neel before strangers strang cre she no I 1 meeting the unknown in levinton the quality of him the way he talked rind moed were matters new rind stimulating she openly studied lit hie face and beneath her tier colm of tit lie orient uns a annn confusion according to her tier studies udlea st they had no princes in america trusting to niter alter the direction of their conversation ho the father tattler ob served all these things seem to have come from he the united states yes sir father the music machine only onty a week since I 1 cannot comprehend it it inny may ho be a doil but hat hot of that chee mine ming learned in ban san francisco Fronc leco to produce sweet singing from it con rose ose to meet thia this occasion approached pro ached the music machine rind chose a record iio fie glanced back at the princess who was with pure interest the result of hia his activity she site had naturally crossed ankles as a hito woman should but her eyebrows lind lint a deceptive upward sinnit the mongol mark that chilled con unreasonably her bunds hands become idle lie ile sd opt the record going and into his lils on oun emotions came the hothouse sentiments of the tho big american who ulio sang strenuously con was glad for elili further touch of home and helen was pleased plen aed sed yet delther was moved by the singing they were pitcha more intensely lhnn the music and for the girl there WON was a yellow aeb of tradition between the western cong song and herself she found this merely a wonder toy part of the american tradition that had been brought to her three costly trunk across t two to o continents and the largest ocean over deserts and moun mountains talmo deerk into the wilderness of blia shit mo she thanked levington tor me fits courtesy and her small bonds crime to life lite ne as bho oho talked tp sir father 0 sunshine flickered through the leave leaves of the white onka onks nt at tho the window trees flint had beu transplanted tit u chenven knew what cost eighteen years before when aho she w a babe at branst the onka onks had been imported also to north american tradition clico clice ming AN kisir to the monarch wa w A a man of perfection in details in at the window bounded a tiny ng fig ure the pale faced monkey helen made soft noises with her lips live and leaned forward fach of the three persons in the room received the monkeys quick consideration then he dropped down to tho tile rug crossed soberly to levington and glanced up at him film for permission which was will riven given fie leapt and con held him film on his shoulder tills title seemed to a new pleasure to the prince fir tricas desur has made mode a friend said fhe pho lie he has tins otherwise nothing but enemies and myself doca does lie keep you from being lonely asked levington not at all times nut but that flint ie Is not his fault bebur glanced at tit her tier and started to nay pay something but forgot and turned instead to comb cons hair with lite email small nails nalls you have done nell ell to grow up in each such excellent health sold andrew march 1 I could not have avoided IV it helen replied neilce ne ilde the kick hick are put to death ihly encumber the strite no doubt mused her father I 1 have bott ou no doctors I 1 asked con oh 01 seal clice ming bedur hid nn an neon acorn under collar th thia ie Is far better than pretending to speck 11 lith ith clico cheo mini continued tho tile prin prenciss ciss lie Is to full of 0 hesitation and anti rules I 1 do not liko like to brt bo corr corrected correi eted ted lun hill hu fie la Is wrong I 1 ime tried to speck 11 with bestir ihen there tire no correct lonn I 1 brive tried it aleo still I 1 prince r inc 0 I 1 lekai e u tol lot but tio lie will never neer master it lie fie prefers to practice tilt bis his arrows lie 1 Is pino pule mongol con coll lint flint fill this ans her first social moment in white company her father ittle mored again to hange tho ati subject dois dots chec chee ming ninke many journeys to lie tile united slip shook her tier |