Show 11 we van have changed all that by herbert quick and elena eiena Stepa nott mac mahon by the bobbs bobbe merrill co service CHAPTER XI 19 A japanese view of isabella mrs krassin still stood where I 1 lie soldier had placed tier when musia emerged from loris car still stood looking like a very pale plain join expressionless onless statue expressionless but site she had thus stood apprehensive eager expectant unmoving all tills this long time slie she felt humiliated that tier her address had 4 failed but despair despairingly angly hopeful that muelas appeal lind not after all why should site she care what flat loris thought of Alu busias mother when ausla came down the steps of the alie car to the platform sire mrs krassin looked at her much as the fisher man inspects tile the worm or the minnow on tits ills hook as tie he draws it from the water after a cast for a fisli fish had it been convincing enough had the great fish struck at it musia was dreadfully unattractive tills this feeling darkened tier her mind US as the lie girl came don tile lie platform rod red eyed with wee plug pale with agitation the cold fury of offended pride in her eyes AS it if tier mother had bad been a stronger stranger musia s glance passed tier her by as she walked with milt a swai swaging ing staggering movement up till the platform the way they had come the guard paid no more attention to mrs Krag krassin sin who min ran after and overtook tier her daughter who never onre once looked at tier in fact they did not once venture upon a meeting of eyes far less a meeting of minds in cone con vers atlon but mrs Krasl ns face caught and held the eye bof many a passerby passer by as site she made her way along the street in what seemed to tier her quite tier lier ordinary and normal manner lifting her skirt to clear the filth of tile fc treet with tile the little pallid red eyed girl following ter lier hut but alint was in tier her expression thought miny many who villa saw her was it remorse was it trl campli was it madness whatever it was it devoured tier her mind and soul look out I 1 thus shouted an old man with on an ivory colored fleece hanging front under his cap and a great white heard ell all over his breast and mrs krassin awakening to a consciousness of things about her found thrust into her face the drooling muzzle of a great shaggy black horse ausla instinctively seized her mothers shoulder and was pulling her back upon the sidewalk oh I 1 see it exclaimed mrs krassin irritably alusha shrug shrugged ed her shoulders as it if to say As you pl please eael I 1 the only other word uttered by either of them spoken by mrs krassin as they turned into their own gateway this conics of of being robbed of our motor car said she li lusla without replying stepped back to allow her nother mother to precede her and when mrs krassin turned as it if to speak to her after afler they lind gone in the girl looked away and went to her own apartment mrs krassin locked herself in her own room and did not appear for two or three days she felt the aversion in her daughters manner lilt and was all tile time trying to divine exactly eliat it meant she could think of several elements in the girls thoughts which might make tier her averse to intercourse with her mother unit and tit at the beginning of tills phase if their relations slie she s lie come camp to the conclusion that thai tills mystery of of busias state of mind which she elie felt that she must fathom falli om was lily to he be soled by obe rr ir tier her daughters behavior of her anya of spending her time of her in and in outgoings especially the latter lil tvr site she made huh arrangements that she knew where was at nil fill it limes she kalched wal clied the lie girl when she vent nellt out of the house louse to walk about the grounds site she grew agitated agitate tt when musia the gates she elie bri niad to despair when site she turned bitch back from them toward the bouse and when v hen she came in arid and vi went ent about her indoor mrs Kras gift beat tier her breast with mingled ailef 1 I ter and anger some certain things filings site she felt that the site knew that ilyas life hung on loris decision that boils would spore that life it if michla entert US as effectively as she could and that in the absence of 0 such intercession their isit to loris had madette mi dethe hoys boys ease bo hopeless that they had robbed hlin him of any chance of which lie he had bad theretofore possessed unless Ln lehs tile the price is paid she said over and olier oer to herself we have murdered him there Is 1 nothing else to do I 1 there Is no other way out I 1 why does site she hesitate oil oh it I 1 could only talk to her ber site she had heard of people being shot at sunrise and for an all hour every morning khe bile that hut lla ilia might be spared prayed to god ilia ili dreadful ransom might be paid bedfor before L it was too loo late never kever before in tier her life had she been so religious site she spent hours trying to to visualize what had taken place between musia and loris in loris reception room after she herself had been turned out of it she recalled every pha phase phae e of muelas appearance and behavior beh ivor tier her eyes reddened with weeping tier refusal to look at tier her mother tier her aloofness now were these things manifestations of maidenly shattle were they signs of indignation and anger why had bad not looked prettier prett lerl bue could be very charming mrs brustin IC terly thou bought glit when coth both ing depended upon it but now ilya I 1 ilya 1 sometimes site she would find herself crying the hie name of her son aloud perhaps they were nere laning killing him film dewi now at such times site she would start up to go to to plead with tier her to command tier her to question tier her but always she he would return to tier lier seat knowing that to to do this was impossible she was quelled by a sense of the fact that no mother had eer sold such euch bilings than s to a lighter daughter that according to the standards ls of the old life she fhe would he be pleading or commanding the 11 impossible Possible the inadmissible till this held tier bit bink bin k lout but tile the forms and conventions vent ions of a 1 lifetime were equi equally ally powerful whatever happened she could not of speak to ausla about these nan banters not now not dot afterward if file girl did what avas demanded demand edby by tile the new standard of duty duly which tier her mother imd had set up for her even it if they should live together to the end of their lies she simply had no language an gun e which t to 0 communicate to the girl tier lier thoughts and desires desire put cut site she of the lie subconscious influence of mind over liver mind that one will by concentration upon another could liend hend the sen lenient lent fiill ill to its purposes slie site had rend read of hypnotists who had controlled the llie will of if tits subjects ejects so that hint tile lie lattal larrer hall hail been in 4 4 10 00 A sometimes she would find herself crying the name of her son aloud fluen humped ced even to the commission of cri crimes lues she thought that there was a book on tills in the library but site she shrank from going down donin to refer to it she recalled however a lecture site she had bad once heard on hypnotism and the methods described so she lay awake at night trying to concentrate tier her will on muelas bill commanding tier her over and oer o 01 er cr and when nhen she found her own oan thoughts were straying from this strange thing she prayed tor for strength to prevail what more could slie site do to sway the girls mind if site she were so false and rebellious as to betray tier her brother and her mother mot lier slie site recalled ilu sias fondness for shakespeare art and dimly remembered that in one of of the file plays there was some such demand on oil a girl as tills which bibich with till all her soul she was voas making upon musia alusha slie site studied carefully a collection of the plays which slie she had sasha bring her found and reid read measure for measure all and was chagrined to tears when site she read tile great speeches of isabella rejecting the demands of angelo slie she underscored der scored an angelos elos speech then must sour our brother die let and drew black lines erasing isa bellas answer and the cheaper way better belter it were a brother died at once than that a ulster sister by redeeming him should die forever and offer after tills this she wrote false and sinful 1 in the lie boot book she found a clipping from some newspaper pasted on a age of 1 measure leasure for measure in a arlier had drawn a distinction between japanese standards ot or morals in some things and those of I 1 vo western estern nations ato TO BE CONTINUED tremendous batoh salli ilk hosiery pred reduced to one third rf arice 13 2 hose for or 3 1 ta 2 25 MOM hose for 16 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