Show II I rhe lord of Thunder Gate A m CHAPTER XI XI Continued Jl J i 14 14 l 1 t Is not that you ou are arc displeasing V Vi e r but but the dissembling the place placer re e v wife is within the panels of her herI herand's i ands and's house I only take you heI hee he- he I e It Is the custom Should I leave leae t behind people would wonder nil did not think that you feared k was said she said looking of eyed eyed eyed at him Arent you ou the hells ells nodded be said sold that you are master of all of us all must la your eer every wish t ma i lit It t was W well spoken ells stood up It II Is time time for us its ng arc are waiting depart The servants ser f cne Erie e 0 O 1 he must touch louch her kimono a moe mo mo- f e pU r t Am I I-do I do I loot loot-is loo look Is Is m my ap- ap mt satisfactory a aShe he e ravished him It It will do he hen without apparent Interest n 1 L ft he be household had awaited the de de- tare ture of their master before f f forth and Wells ells headed the pros proon pro- pro s 3 Ion on toward the village proper gin the servants ser drifted off one by in y t Ellen and Wells VeIls were alone in Increasing ever pack of or bodies 11 the throng with them were t sans from neighboring villages lr iwi ii ft their short blue kimonos marked i on the back with the sign their class closs or If servants ser th thes thees the thees es es of their employers farmers IT 1 m great roughly woven wo straw hats and bags s of vegetables to be inched ched raw between such delicacies n QI hampen Kampen or shredded shrimp All noisily down the narrow f. f et et and toward the outskirts of or the i I age s yet Jet there was fOS no moon and thet the ther t tl r ht it t was black overhead o But there 1 i plenty of or lI light ht In the street for fory B py y lanterns were lit and hun hung oute out- out e while many of or the people carried I terns Items as ns well long dim streamers of jt brightened with painted flowers O n wordings Townspeople joined f thron throng and women threaded the way r rf i ft brightness punctuating the dark nt of the men with rub ruby colored i j Is 5 with warm browns or purples ur nd d In iu by obis of ultramarine or orIne orre re nine Ine and gold Some few of or the class women by order of their t dzan bands an s masked themselves by t tying Ing Jt t n p over O their cheeks the flexible j s 1 ais is s of ot broad straw hats The gay goy umes were the wings of or- orthe the giant I sailing over oyer a a turquoise sea sen All e all nIl excited je e laughing pleasantly I o fells ells nn and Ellen had been on the hC I t 1 IT r l' side of the street before before but hut 1 were were packed close to the walls of I i houses and b by the newl newly erect erected ell I booths Ellen stopped and smiled d tn hi li little cotton monkey e with blue a a add tl and red bod body J who a bam barn t ti rod J 1 hat Is Saru O-Saru the honorable Il key ke ey Wells said laughingly See Seeder IHler der him Is a little spring Press It Iti i m your our tip linger no not tint And he must show her hand guiding g hers Nhe i he honorable ran to the top of the theas theas as ns the spring spring- sv was s pressed the theand theand thel I l and anti girl smiled at each other et me try Ellen EBen Insisted Two Twos ds 2 s ds were close together as she fum fum- tl for the minute minute- spring and was when 0 Saru O-Saru Saru climbed his I t 1 It Is an expensive sive pre pres present cent nt Wells h 1 her gaily It cost three sen f Si i I am a n costly wife the girl agreed Tho women mission r j l 1 that In America many wives were fish and spent their husbands husbands' c ey i upon things I would get you ou all nil nil- 1 I All 11 what question questioningly a lifting h hea Ii ea leyes to his i MAI s All A of these to toys s 's you ou like lIe e you you youji ou ji give oe I them to the chil children ren after i See very f very quickly co covering the slip lost that he lie nu made there made there Ic there Is J liI the carpenter Here to lo the give me nine time the well made layer fryer yer from your honorable shop I tl O 0 I l pu push h him See how haw shoves ho es the saw aw from him Instead pulling It to him as Is done one In Amer- Amer 1 SJ j lIe He did not think that t she might 0 1 It strange that thai a casual traveler i h as Ka Kayama ha had been w would Quid obe ob ob- e such detail nor did she wonder onder l t I would like IlIce a doll Kaa Ka Kayama til una S llma I F eyes e cs already selecting one from wine ng the thousands displayed ed She t Pd d one to her liking b no easy s tu tusk taNk k Drills This Is lovely 10 It will be my mv iJ Y Ellen laughed contentedly I 1 i ia It ii a Chinese doll with a rice paste n 1 when I was a child but a he heg a lIr lIre r rante ante e It It and antI so my nurse said ate the iJ I cried for da days f Thank c for for this one fla laborers from the countr country unaware j git the time villages village's Lord Ka Kayama na was wa In streets and intoxicated b by excite excite- t il so unaccustomed In IIi their dreary s unseeing of at the insignia insigne h a upon his Imes h I LLone ono brushed close lien Hen pressed nearer to Wells and 1 Jr moved r onward with the time major Tent arent Tent which spewed away drippings JI g the ya u gyu gu ya a at al Intervals Up tho the Vet det et and over oer the little camel a ked ed bridge Into Inlo a n quarter so dart g att it the trees seemed blots of at light i c the darker durker sky Sells ells was excited The stir the thee pe le e the happiness about him were I fly Fly I warming him j all nil of or the East East- Q sounds anti and scents and languorous action aware Ellen t was pres pressed ed even en er to lo him He could feel the theof sq ninth th of ot her arm orm against him The et t narrowed moved mo more slowly e o or r twice It stopped altogether f By S SIDNEY SIDNEY HERSCHEL WL SMALL Copyright by The Bobbs Merrill Bobba-Merrill Co and the two must stand Immovable Ellen less able to withstand the eager crowd behind was pushed a n pace half forward turned and was left pressed against Wells Welts her face tace close to his She smiled up at nt him b brit t was rewarded reward reward- ed with nothing more than a 0 blank look a look hook utterly concealing the time seething within him An announcer opened a n great eat umbrella umbrella um um- brella and mounting a R box covered e 0 wIth cloth announced the com coming In of the Fruitful Fj Year As he lie spoke the final chanted words a n geisha stepped Into the open space flung out her tier fan with one gracious movement mo The press of bodies became Intense Wells Yells eyes upon the dancing girl heart beating heatIng painfully head with the beauty of or It all nIl all pa passed HI hl his arm about Ellen th time the better to protect her from the mass Unconsciously she che placed place her hand upon his on the time far side lie felt the fingers tense and move amore The dancer nearer and nearer nearer near near- er n a path cutting Itself as ns If b by magic before her In and out the danced swinging swaying silk hissing upon silk her painted face ace with twin circles of ot red like lacquer Immobile her eyes ye downcast her body only showing the ecstasy which moved mo her Selected Selected from the house geisha as ns i ithe the time most beautiful lo el lovely with the thc i gauzy fragility of ot youth the way war opened for her as she advanced ad It did not close behind but remained a n stretch of blackness with the girl as the time colored handle hundle She approached approached ap ap- Wells 1 and as ns her knees bent bentIn In homage against the skirt of or her hel kimono kImono ki kimono kI- kI mono he could see that the they were wore trem trembling Ael Adi 1 ael neI ael nel chanted the chorus She was the bud for the picking of their lord Kayama It was the spring spring- time The buds were opening In his lordly arrogance and mercy he might honor the time village HInge b by stooping to pick the beauty of ot this flower which had been created for him alone She most beautiful would drag the thc hem of he her kimono for him through the streets Wells knew that this was ns allegorical cal he was ryas not Intended to pluck this flower flower pr not at nt this festival It festival it was all nil emblematic of the devotion due him j I I I o 5 tJ 1 mt t r I t mt hl t I I l f rl r rr r AH AJi Ali AIM All Ali Chanted the Cho Cho- rus She Was V the Bud Gud ud for the PickIng Pick Pick- Trig Ing of Their Lord Kayama This Ellen could not know The words were err so o simple the mea meaning behind them so unmistakable that she ro stood blood Tier Her lingers fingers curled curle about his As Wells dropped a n coin oln upon th time the grass he say saw the e curve of Ellens Ellen's check and marked ed how flushed Hushed it was The geisha swooped upon the time gold geld with a flurry of wide f sleeves slee yes anti and drapery showed her he- teeth In n a H gleam gleaming in ing smile mlle The path closed behind hemas her hem heras herns as ns she Ihl lanced danced away Ellen drew a n lung audible I am mn gla glad that you pill did not not not- and gulped down the unspoken en remain remain- del der Did not what 7 No answer answer ti a choked unintended sob Instead lie knew Knew Inen It now I 1 Sh She did love him if she sime hadn't she wouldn't have cared Wh Why not nol Wh Why not Indeed She was his wife ne lie was vita the master The lord She understood that be Ile was the tile absolute ruler that his Ills WH word void vi n was washer her command That there remained nothing save ne willing obe obedience lence t even ten If It simulated If she he knew that thin he hen wn n he white white he wouldn't tell her Imer couldn't explain now there was no time for that Ill The moon was wes high hl h. h The perfume melted into the air Explanations at lit such finch a s time I Inside of him somewhere he reasoned that If later he returned to America with her if all went well welt when he went first for tor the time accounting she would woul forgive c since he had loved lowed her and she him him Wh Why horrid he wait The blossoms were erti dropping What was S It 7 That as ns each ench wind departed never newer to return return return re re- re- re turn so with each moment And why And why shouldn't he live for tor himself himself him him- se self From Fromn all that hind had happened he believed helle so o he or argued that tt the themen themen men who are happiest are ure the time men who succeed The men who trample IJo Un h hu hud Q l teen been n kind and ln 10 loving and und I grateful what was his reward Men Mendo Mendo Mendo do not get what the they give It was the hard passionate man who was rewarded re re- warded he who Is tender thoughtful thought thought- ful even en unselfish nat nal he muttered It was written Fated Intended The air nil was was 1 hot ot It it se seemed to hold down lie h felt a a apart part of ot the throng n sharer of ot th their pulses their desires Spring Worms was In th the air The crowd felt It Wells realized It Ellen sensed It It all all ecstatic It was shadowy unreal Ills hand closed dosed tightly over o hersh hers Why hy h wait walt The ser servants were were gone the house upon the hill hili deserted that his Wells bent his head hend so so month mouth was close to her her- ear eur as he spoke e. e Ellen O 0 let us return return re reo turn to the house honse I 1 Now Come let us return to fo U the house 1 l lEllen Ellen felt him trembling Trembling Trem Trem- bUn bling Is Infectious she began to tremble tremble trem trem- tremble ble also Yes yes we will go to the house she agreed In a 0 quick whisper not knowing why she said It It CHAPTER XII Neither l looked at nt the other Instinctively Instinctively In In- el Yells Wells felt that which bad whelmed him was overcoming Ellen also One thought alone was paramount and without companion in Wells Wells' whirling brain lie was the lord Ka Ka- San yama-San San yama-San-or or so she thought The lord did not ask nor demand lIe He offers a request and thereby confers conters a supreme favor upon any anyone one fortunate fortu fortu- nate enough to be so designated She had not argued had not quibbled quibbled quibbled bled and he saw In this acquiescence something beautifully touching A superb plea of nature appealing passionately passionately pas pas- against mans man's crucifixion of purity upon the cross of at sophistication tion he lie did not think of It In these words he did not think think he was far beyond thou thought ht He heard hearl her breath come quickly short and painfully That she already regretted regretted re re- h her r swayed ed decision he could not know kno That she mowed moved so silently because she knew nothing to plead that would have haye Inter Interested sted him He was hot with the time head heady wine of pos pos- session The They the time pitched high footbridge footbridge footbridge foot foot- bridge linking the miniature Islands of ot ofa otI n a garden g the flagged path that half circled circled a lotus covered pond He did not look at nt Ellen but saw her white hUe reflection In the water Involuntarily Involuntarily Imol he lie took her hand and so they walked wallce 1 onward at last lost mounting tho the win winding ing- ing path shrub-bordered shrub that leads to the time house of or the time Thunder Gate Only one of the time panels of the main room was open Th They y must p pass ss close together through It The hanging lamp had gone bone out and only the time tiny lotus-lamp lotus of bronze with its sputtering taper In the seed rape oil burned unsteadily before the secondary secondary sec sec- shrine There was no sound within no patter of feet nor muffled laughter He lIe le could rould not see her face could only mark Its oval o Yel Very slowly lr he took tonic her hr hands lie who had been heen so full of subtle of arguments arguments ments ment of decisions decisions who had so yearned earnel for action resultant In the loveliness of his companion being drawn n within the circle of his arms he the man of Impulses so foreign was vas silent and motionless as os If chained lie heard the pounding of her heart and and th thought it was his own awn A great p peace ace brooded In the ancient nt house Wells drew her hands together and 1 very slowly as ns if It moved b by some mechanism within him placed his other hand upon ulion her shoulder The moments moments passed Neither spoke nor moved except that once Ellens Ellen's h heats head td raised perhaps raised perhaps an on Inch no more inure so 0 so that each ench saw sass deep Into the oth oth- others other's ers er's eyes t Wells' Wells hand han pressed against her hr shoulder They The started ted hearing the whistle of a n blind woman In the streets j along a n lon lung long s sweet call plaintive e one sus sus- sustained us' us note flute first filst then two yo short ones onesIn onesIn onesIn In another and lower key To warn time the pastors pH ers to take hC heed for her sake since she cannot See see ee Blind Oh more immure than blind 1 I Here said the time throbbing nl night ht here was his Joy his life anti and happiness Take It it murmured the trees for the bloom Is Isson soon son gone from rain the fruit Take It Iter It every er heretofore subdued sense told him mini for the nt night ht is going It t Is the hour of the time Highest Star the hour of It love loye of capture and giving and the night I Is passing fast He Ile hud had no time for argument now He lie 11 only knew that trembling In his pis half embrace ace was WitS the girl that b beI he be I loved o d. d that the night was sweet and amid made for or JI u re ills His heart p her name again and again like a litany Utan TO DE an CONTINUED I |