Show fye yellow men L sleep by jer jeremy lane L I 1 1 IT 11 1 is illustrated by b y IRWIN 1 MYERS copyright by the century co CHAPTER XI continued is 15 1 I all it e 1111 III hoftell oft of tell II 11 fun I 1 aln lo 10 not chitre for bill it Is JJ it t to 0 brenin 1111 ilie have you it t s i I 1 11 to t ht care rimy yv vis ive benl tit dr stilled it hill in ill coill fail ih III Il lille I 1 come hero every eor dav di III I 1 in jiin lilt amt t lip pry hot 1 in 1111 ollied to ti it I 1 do not rt resist it it there Is grent n it life in ti it ll it NIS ll 11 IS illila boll all lomy ili said t isail L it ii is ind to lo lie nd of it f to ion I 1 smile tal her hei ill lips life or titter fi fani it nil I 1 11 ilin if i r of the 11 i si s in is n it ns it hr epli s nt for foi tile amill onn in in too 1 tho tin rock Kick ile III annl iid olit for foi relief over our diw tl r stin stenli hig bilte alt lilt 1 hiie nil if Nest yesterday erday Is io narl flem it in tin ib ii nf or toony toil n ono bore bor e man til in nut tit thero clr re not for fit froin tile the city ci it n stift r ill of koen eye es unit that inight lie III allt to sie see li slime 1 I and ill infill knitli ith chop ming mill bild the lil 10 fur for on it lidid my nn to li in ill in 1 illi us now chilt cannot t iv in for foi hue have tavi to run rim nm you inn lime v wounded minded ills anio thins youir our father tin and I 1 expect to git get nn but wt tire arp coniing lurk soon no she sold no io man in in ROIS goes from here to toll tell tile ti world int ile he lias has seen clive MH ang only of nil all nion goes tin anil come nil and it bif tills tells nothing the empire knust foil fall when hen its se crecy Is zone LOII con coil tilt felt the chill or nr a stone wall vall you toll fire deeply entert ted d lit in the empire of tile the sun lie fie said aid fully it 1 Is to lo floor a fruit sold tile the princ princess esq it Is very er cruel si id levington 1 I to do not ng narce rec ith chop ming mang about chont evi grything you hiim hlll a merciful heart n heart tint that would bild ho lit it honic in america where liap fill tills men of racial fusion the blending of nil into one has h is borne good fruit for two tn centuries 1 I have hut but little of america except concerning ond the red men sold slid If helm elvil clive aling mill lins hns been lier n careful the rell il met ill gone it 1 Is the new nen world orld ill III tell you nil about it you w donld not nil be with etli tile op arv slon ili thievery ll ilien of if tan tail kutin kinn it if you ou knew lii i hie file ways MIS or of amerlyn AmerI cn mother used to lo anik like tint that you belong lit in sold lev ington iTi Klon scarcely nare aware of how flow inich lie hire in milking tile the statement my father mentioned tint that yester dily ile HP Is a good annn yes I 1 love loe too ile he needs you soft alil the girl r lie ile needs you ou returned con america he be a splendid place for you ou theire tire iru dreanie there too if you ou like 1110 or r nm am not lint inhere ted here Is the lipert of lie flip horld tills J Is the lie conter center of power the flip erht of if arps egv to tn comp come ilire my ni Is cheed and nil all tile good things thing of parth tire lire brought lie ile forio fore tile me mot most of elf them from america nil add pit con on lilt hut lip lie wn is hurt deop tip ne felt hie file knarp of nf aroun around I 1 her I 1 ion rt sav sn cinq tt is n I 1 ion rt hut but that it dh nut not to liei hot s site did not lint ogree aerie etli alic fit polley poll of if state 1 I nm nin needed here all flip lie prini ef ss rather pearlly Ne arlly 1 there I li rf Is work orl endle ss corl the 1 I lie dobert 1 Is n lenue of dallis tint that line have ri tilen will cities must bp be divido to bloom nenon vav why in do vim philia ails soi of if P poison you do not tinder twid it Is in bililc it irvain dream I 1 have nut not conr coin emin tim ij e arv arp you happy ln iii 1 lint happy h ap pp ns it a child billil Is 14 ail ali you nu arr power 1 that I li ll 11 1 Is pirt part of iny in ole ds alny cruelly sterility tint thit 1 Is tail 1 ni klinn ill mild lovington Lel niton botching wot nl ching liln her in i lisch it nal tint lint tip lie so 0 o ald helen I ie ic c ferring tn in tiei her coming rp ro geney 1 thell I in n boll ou nn nir happy lii ip but Is it 1 I cannot say sn vi why do volt question tile me oil I 1 seem to tn miss some t filing I 1 lieve nevor ne er reon beon something I 1 that lint cannot lie ile in tile the arld I 1 in ili hie flip evening I 1 think that lit in file lie avit est where IK re tile thi sun still popi gop mity ann he be alint I 1 vant but then in the morning I 1 to do not bellee it inight lt it not lie he worth while to follow the sun westward tin and see for yourself no one deports from here site she said quietly ali and I 1 nave have seen the tin and I 1 nm not very much arnan clive ming find planted ted this preau alc in perfect soil oil nut but whitt Is it anti want nant do not no lil nit mp I 1 in do not arnow ahe lieo ilac ming ens I 1 nm am too young oung vo know ann I 1 bellee my nn mother knew m fivie slip sho MIS I 1 nm nin afraid not lo li urn orn until trio too lata n sighed and edged away from the hot boulder your tour mother c could 0 u id have helped you he said 1 I come here each lay to ask her mid and site she does not speak why the yellow prince help you 1 I have lave not asked help of him perhaps your our father will advise you she shook tier hor hond lien slowly her face was serene yet et filled with a remote ill 0 te polo beauty was about tier her eyes bu but t something was holding back now the flips in cons own heart would not wait nil and lip ile sold wah mi I 1 could toll yon 1 I have nathl ig of my iny own on to offer except america annl I 1 mn give ghe that to you yiu T 1 I pre tire me bo iks that lieve been kept front from you nn the white blood in your veins cinq been carefully slin shadowed dowed your lionet heart Is 19 Ame american rleon I 1 marvel linw how well they lime ellade you ou forget I 1 hitt you long inns for your our own birthright that Is why vo by you look into tile aft t and tire filled with a diiro desire you not I 1 never know new what nv my country meant to nip until I 1 got ant dwity front from it working under its orders lit in places like till tills you lire are longing for lionie home and your mil imi people your soul Is sick of yel fichs fol 0 4 hiir Is welly with oriental HP he che hod for zito slip did not eollo to ile anell ri ohp ills Is tant rider it lidid nol liin d ills hk position coming it aber the than tit nt fart hip flip still un hotter lintton lint tor enve them fro tile sadylle the HIP lit ancess lo ked afar ov v r tile yellow allow PHI the lillace ice 1119 in ill tile trel libling lipit she se lost in ill it a cind of allig it ns to until n great if ht within slie she simply lo looking olIng tit nt hlin you anro amling me unhappy ion yen before the HIP full loy joy of tills ut torance wnm ns to tn film lie he was ns up tier for of flip sentinel tit HIP sun sim the lie world but this A honeyed liono pd frn gronce canto to hlin him from lir her o the words that hint bernod ills illi heart stopped top in ills thront tn anit it III 1111 ve helft hers tin nn lilt and trag dutilly tier unhappiness deepened yet vet it mado lit hani glad without slip sho hol mount wheeled covering ll flip binn III n loved tier and then role rode for foi the city gate CHAPTER all the yellow bowl As ag he fie returned to the lie mouth of the anft shaft with no tho thought tight of caution evan tile the gobi seemed fai familiar nillar and right to levington its purple band of horizon ho its scarlet rocks the mighty pour of the sun no lonser longer inimical for his A I 1 x each with a f tasted tw sted knee and sp spine inc made hideous in childhood bond was filled with ith her final orn vo they brought hupe hope and tin hurt together when OK onet inore in i a nominal into con was ins frightened tit nt the intensity of its ills speech cli ill alir nic fire lie lind had sent 0 out to lr lier her ent lirt th li hold no other benr tit iliin tint that lir fie lind had sald lid too much that he fie lint lind I 1 stumbled over the really lit in her nature in ill her expectation of on eni pire pile also aio lie fie nw aw afresh the extent or of tile anees of marahs mm ills manfor tin tho forc chig liin of v jenpo hist ln t night I 1 lilt lanil secured n sort of truer true for them hut but it knits us now con grimily remembered the lie blonds lip lie had given tile HIP soldier lit in march Mu irlis 4 rooms lie fie wanted to ind find lier ber father the drop domi dovo 11 tile lie shaft did 1111 not so 11 0 long ions tills till time lint but the darkness daric tie tit nt aile bottom was overpowering ills pus 1 remained full of it green of ait then lie started liick back ns as nearly ne irly us its it in could remember along ill alip tunnel ln annil nil the cargor cavern biere the pus gas burned ile HP thought lie be could sanell the burned alii or HIP flip bolting lentils unmistakably li scented camels cn inels none of the dwarfs was in few ew ile he find to grope hav ing no torch it was like a starless night it wag some home time before he fie sow nw n plow glow far ahead which satisfied film ns as the reflected light front from the cavern in which he had taken lene leave of his friend and the interpreter lie ile was thinking with a newborn new born power and perhaps did not realize that he had been wandering ering deeper into the oarth for twenty minutes the light proved tu to be a torch carried over a group of thor they were little fellow fel lowi each with a twisted knee and spin ielne made hideous in childhood under the flaring light con could not steady a shudder at the picture they made half starved long armed dark creatures with the eyes narrowed all humanity drawn from their faces peered at the large man in the tunnel before them and a united whisper rustled from lip to lip where Is my friend white man levington made signs and variously indicated ills his desire to find march the eyes em turned tinned upon him grew pig like and the flip whisper wan wall repented repeated heads hands turned tinned back then toward him hostility ans like powder to the they wore were blaming him for foi flip hiking g off of their kin con felt that lie fie was it had omen to them which ans the greater pi eater need for find ing march and the arab friend now the little party lined up against one side of the lie passage plainly in tending the white man to pass that tant wnm con inquired also with his hands if they 11 acie ere directing him blin to go on per bit hips ps they illey had just come from March now alx they made no response their stony ston full upon him lit ID tile the ll 11 light ailt having small holer choice C con on no III 0 1 I his thanks tind strode past them again the sort soft crackle of their voices ile he turned tilly vere going on with the torch darkness Dark closed about him once more ills reverie was polled for the mo A touch of the flip horror of nuin bailess generations was upon him the burial fear ile he C could 0 I 1 touch the earth eaith over ills lien liand as lit in it tomb and spin span the walls from side to side then lie he laughed tit lit blin self it was a relief a necessity he fie came back to himself identify lilii was renewed another feces sit ity for new worlds had leen been through him film nil and lie had forgotten much confident of locating his friend or the lie brown brow n s thinned limed sailor who find gone from allen aden to buffalo Huff iilo in his time lovington iid onward down UK the tunnel ile he thou alit of helens face ovill calm calin day 1 n lit kissed ed yet each i moment she seemed different for now low s alic III was wag fully awakened a pria es of even owning ing lights and clear wine lilt and music subtle eastern wisdom a princess only on a mottled flower tills this loiter iatter was a form of torture to ahu whose heart find biad opened but always there ws wits the saine pale light in her hei eieg MS whether she were learned of kings and princes or quite innocent it further r tiou tumbled bled him to find that he could not be certain ns as to the color if they wre were lit with the greer of the sea lit at mk or the blue of sky tit at sun set bet they could be as steady ns as jade pure pine lit in their gaze and their loveliness sent him out upon a tide of yearning A barta flood seemed to rise when he remembered tier her slim throat and it startled sturt led hlin him to recall the manner of tier her breathing at moments now with tile the earthen eart lion blackness beating in upon him film con coil was almost ready to believe that she was a plinn antom tom that the gobi lad bad done something to him that hint possibly possible there was no sha mo lit at nil all and III hi was ans merel merely coming to the surface after it plunge depper deeper and an 1 darker than linn usual to find and himself ill with life in ili a n room nt at the lie old club that this helen wits the shallow sli adow of his I desires of all ills his bosti ned inspiration ind and nothing more yet t he could hear tier her voice as if site she woe were just abend in the d ir kness and lie in had sometime tier lier li ind the delicacy of that hint ollion t was still upon him lie he shook it oft off all and tried to lailla again to liar ills his mind but lit this time the happy effect ans in more lore delushe direction was lilt ail impossible impo ible subject ind and delith another ile he I filched an intel SK ion a moment for the nerves us its ills annn ait atit out into soft nothing ile he willid in ili it a tension and heard in nd n slow thudding like file trend of glints glants tile HIL i virth 11 til the lie nir of tile alie MIS marcotle arc otle lit in thinking of the alie lierly c of the lesert tills this dif Terence 11 grateful we ell 11 it naro that hi it lie vils lost ho he thought of mum things old and tew iw nelling dwelling stin stinah nh illion hit tit me of ills his on sahit tin the will vell coinage of life hall h id enriched him ind 1111 lie he longed iong id to spend heaning against the lie rough lough walls walk scarcely mile to ti se e ills hands ballots baroro III his fuca aey I 1 v ington discovered liS olIed the lie innermost dolor ili or ol nf soul siitia currents tint lie fie bill 1 ill loin bed in boyhood boli ond clop about gibout him again duk within it 11 lonely twilight in spi ing tile hie air was figured ilgin oil with file ali finein ory of nf bill hie file vellow took coot of or those title it in it a illicit tongue told lit in the hit hot thick alii l evenings to the sway hwa of the lie ship probably all hills bills lilt binl loven liri n of tau kunn kann its piled up cuming boors of alost in ill their misty silks of if tit lie di that spatter from the lie dinken bletl en of it odi too lit at tile fountain down upon white antl anil ivory limbs or perhaps piilini is of those these choking where nn ili till v fl lwell M ienir would set mt M t tile llie ii tent lii ing oft off ills giuli in ill frenzy frn a ilist sand stoll wiilus 1 I 1 1 the ce of tile hip fl wil q of I 1 kuisle w I 1 I 1 Lr evi lintin skilled a nind falit alelle pl elle to ill ill tin salle ahli nip of if the alie murdered daled chiney and drove droe hlin elf breet rf 11 onward so s i pi ens the smil anik in ili its chi 1 timing linIng of him that hint ills will was re licud of the struggle arii III hing forward along the walls he knew tile delicious weakness of convalescence a helpless joy jov ile he was reduced and ex totted his live ih e senses had slipped past every danger signal and in it a tempo ani death lie blundered on wondrous ondrous oui flowers of gossamer grew diew about its hla feet and a thunder that was profound and musical was possessing him far attend ahead n |