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pevansh comers HIS story the Government of Japan was reported to have secretly suppressed because it described certain social cusioms affecting the standing of Japanese women. The author’s pseudonym, John Paris, was adopted, it is said, because it protected his Government against embarrassment, he having been a member of the British diplomatic service resident in Japan at the time the novel was written. Aside from its importance as a pitiless exposure of national social customs “Kimono” is a charmingly written and interesting story with characters that are strongly drawn and placed in tellingly dramatic situations. CHAPTER I. (Copyright, 1932, by Bont & Liveright) fou aris- kind know? Do Japs have und all that an tocracy and society of thing AN ANGLOQ-JAPANESE MAR- “I'm sure I don’t know. 1 shouldn't RIAGE. think They don't look real Bhibukaro ka . SReMet BMranedo kaki no “She Is very rich, anyhow," a third Hatsu-ehigirs Whether the fruit be bitter Or whether it be sweet, The first bite tel! jady intervened, ‘I've heard they are big landowners tn Tokio, and cousins of Admiri: 'Togo's."* 5 4D HE marriage of HE opportunity for closer inspee~ ton of this curiosity was afforded the reception given at Lady Captain the Hon- Everington's mansion in orable Geoffrey Jiouse Terrace. “Of course, everybody Barrington and was there, Thg great ballroom was Miss Asako Fu- qraped@ with hangings of red and | Jinaml was @ white, the national colors of Japan outstanding Favors of the same bright hues we event in the sea- qistributed among the guests son of 1913. It phies of Union Jacks and Rising Suns was bizarre, St were grouped in corners and festooned was picturesque, above windows and doorways. it was charming, Lady Everington was bent upon it was socially and politically import- giving an International importance to Ant, it was everything that could ap- her protegee's marriage. Her original peal to the taste of London society, pian hud been to invite the whole which, as the season advances, !s apt Japanese community in London, to become jaded by the monotonous so to promote the popularity of process of Hymen in high life and by angioJapanese Alliance the continued demand for costly wed- the most of thix opportunity for social ding presents. fraternizing. But where was Once again Society paid for its seat Japanese community in London? No- at St. George's and for its glass of pody knew. Perhuos there was none. champagne and crumb of cake with qhere was the Embassy, of course, gifts of gold and silver and precious which arrived smiling, fluent, und stones enough to smother the tiny aimost too well-mannered. But Lady bride; but for once in a way it paid Eyerington had been unable to push with @ good heart, not merely in obe- very fur her programme for interna- dience to convention but for the sake tional umenities. There were strange of participatins in a unique and de- jittie yellow men from the City, who lightful scene, a touching ceremony— hag charge of ships und banking ‘i. the plightiag of East and West. Would the Japanese heiress be mar- ried in a kimono with flowers and faus fixed in dn elaborate coiffure? Thus jived, it appeured, on nothing. But the labies were wondering us they the hogtess could find no ladies at all, craned their necks to catch a giiMPS9 except Countess Sulto und the Em- of the bride's procession up the aisi¢; passy dames. but, though some even stood on has-* sjonsieur socks and pew seuts, few were able (0 from Paris, bride's guardians, distinguish for certain, She was 80 were also present. But the Orient very tiny. At any rate, her six tail was submergetl beneath the flood of bridesmaids were arrayed in Japanese oy¢ fink and fashion, which, as one dress, lovely white creations pul it, had to take care how it broidered with birds and foliage. stepped for fear of crushing the littie 1t is hard to distinguish anything b creatures, the perennial twilight of St. George “Why did you let him do it?" said twilight symbolic of the new lives sins, Markham to her sister which emerge from its Corinthian portico into that married world abou! which so 1auch has been guessed and oe : so little ts known. by Carlton and the by making the teres there were strange littie yellow men from beyond the West End, who studied the Find Arts, and and Madame Murata the em- dy It was a mistake, my dear,”’ audy Evérington, “I meant her whis- somebody quite different “And you'r sorry now? One thing, however, was visible (0 No, 1 huve no time to be sorry— all as the pair moved together up to ever,’ replied that eternally graceful the altar rails, and that was the size ang youtnful Kgeria, who is one of of the bridegroom as contrasted with jondon's most powerful social in- The smallness of his bride. He looked quences “It will be interesting vo hike u great rough bear and sfe like see what becomes of them." « silver fairy, There was something intensely pathetic in the curve of his ADY EVEKINGTON has ieen broad shoulders as ae bent over the le criticised for stony-heartedness, little hand to place in its proud posi for opportunism, and for selfish tion the diminutive golden circiet abuse of her husband's vast wealth which was to unite their two lives. She has been likened to an experi- As they left the church the organ mental chemist, who mixes discordant was playing Kimi-ga-ya, the Japanese elements together in order to watci national hymn. Nobody recognized it the results, chilling them fee or except the few Jupanese who wero heating them over the fire, until the present; but Lady Everington, with lives burst in fragments or the color that exaggeration of the suitable Slowly fades out of them. She has which is so typical of her, had insisted been calded an artist in mesaltiances, on ::8 choice us a voluntary. Those 4 Mismatchmaker of dangerous cun who had heard the tune before and ning, a dungler of picturesque begga! half remembered it decided that it Maids before romantic-eyed Cophe must come from the "Mikudo'’; and tuas. a daring promoter of ambitious one stern dowager went so far as to Ameiicun givis and a champion of protest to the rector for permitting Musics! comedy peeresses, Her louse such 4 tune to desecrute the sacred has b J the dunion Bachelors’ edifice, Club, The charming young men who Outside the church stood the bride- seem to be bound to its hospitabl groom's brother officers. Through the board by inylsible chains are the ma gleaming pussage of swordbludes, terial for ber, dasling improvisations amiling and Huppy, the strangely as- and ihe dramatis personae of the forted couple entered upon the way scores of Jittle domestic comedios of wedlock as Mr. and Mrs, Geoffrey Which she likes to keep foatng Barrington—the shoot of the Pujinami wround ber in different stages of grafted on to one of the oldest of our velopment noble families. Geoffrey Barrington had be he “Are her parents here?’ one lady secietary of this club, and a favorite was asking her neighbor with ihe divinity who presided over it “Oh, no; they are both dead, | be We had ull supposed that he would eve.” reHiuin @ Duchelor; and the advent of « MWhat kind of prople ure they, do Asko Wujinas ute Loudon society ; i By JO COPYRIGHT, 1922 first 1 But reason to chan, she was certainly gave us a fraom and bride than is usual at so weddings, whieh apt to reunions of fashionable Heople, only vaguely conscious of the identity of those in whose honor they have been gathered together, our opinion ciety are ultractive become mere to have been married She ought in a kimono. There was no doubt about it now, when there was more Iiberty to inspect her, a8 she stood there ¢¢ BOFFREY BARRINGTON is shaking bands with hundreds of ~ , ‘such a healthy barbarian," guests and murmuring her “Thank said a pale young man with you very much’’ to the reiterated con: » monocle; “if it had been a high gratulutions, browed child of culture like you, Reg he white gown Was perfectly cut rie, with a taste for exotic sensations, and of a shade to give its full value y should hardly have been surprised.’’ “And if it had been you, Arthur,’ replied R ‘orsyth of the F to her complexion, @ waxen com- plexion like old ivory or like a mag foreign nolla petal, in whic the Mongolian Office, who wa Barrington's best yellow was ever so faintly discernible. man, “1 should have known at once It was a sweet little face, oval and that it was the twenty thousand a smooth; but it might hive been cd year which ,was the supreme attrac e-pressionless if it iad not been for a tion dimple which peeped and vanished ‘There was. a certain amount of around a corner of the small com- Angiy-Indian sentiment afloat among pressed mouth, and for the great deep brown eyes, like the eyes of deer or like of forest eyes full pools water, “BY THE TIME SHE HAD FLOATED IN HIS ARMS THROUGH THREE OR FOUR DANCES, THE SPELL HAD WORKED." H of warmth and affection, This was the feature which struck most of us as we touk the opportunity to watch her in European dress with the the company, which condemned the glamor of her kimono stripped from MArriage entigely as an out on decency “What snorted Gener her. ‘hey were the eyes of the Oriental girl, a creature closer to the animals than we ure, lit by instinct more often than by reason, ing a soul in its infancy, a timorous, uncertain thing, spasmodi- cally violent and habitually secretive and aloof was Br ndan dreaming of,"" | Haslan, * a yellow native ming of the mortgage on the 0 allow his son to marry Mf “Dre Brandan property, 1 expect, General," answered Lady Rushworth and hid repressed, “It's scandalous,"' foamed the Gen- eral, ‘a fine young fellow, « fine of- ficer, too! His eareer for undersized geisha! IR RALPH CAIRNS, diplomat ject to P the famaqus was talking on thi sub- ofessor lronside. ruined an “But think of the millions of yens. ‘The Japanese ure extraordinarily or sens or whatever they are, with quick," he was saying; “the most which she is going to regild the adaptuble people since the ancient fyandan coronet !"' eeks, whom they resemble in some "Phat wouldn't console me for a Hut they are more supertic ways yellow baby with slit eyes,’ continued ‘The intellect races on ahead, but {he the General, his voice rising in de- heart lingers in the Dark Ageg."' bute ws his custom was at the Senior “Perhaps intermarriage is the spiu “Hus! General!’ said his inter- tion of the great racial problem,"* su,- loct. gested the Professor. bilities.” we don't discuss Such po: “Never, said the old administya- “But everybody here must be think- tor, “Keep the, breed pure, be it !9# of them, except that unfortunate white, black or yellow. Bastard races YOUNS in cannot flourish, They are waste of We never say what we are think Rite ing, General; it would be too upset le Professor glanced toward the "M8" bridal pair “Aad we are to have a Japanese “And these also?’ he asked Lord Brandan, sitting in the House of “Perhaps, said Sir Ralph, “but in Yords?”? the General went on her case her education has been so Yes, amung the Jews, ‘Turks, and enUreisewuropentct Armenians who are there already,” * Lady Rushworth answered, “an extra Hereupon, lady Kverington 4p- Griental will never be hotieed trait Prouching, Bir h turned to her only be another instance of the course and said— of Empire ta is Way Bustward,”” “Dear lady, let me congratulate youl thiaidelwourgeuatenptee the Everington dining-room the “Sir Ralph,” @id the hostess, al Wedding presents were displayed It looked more like the interior of a really looking tp see which of Yer tond Street » ¢ paunte Bond street lop Where every kind of guests she would upon, article de live, useful and useless, You know the fast so well HVE was heaped in plenty me one little piece’of advice to hand © Perhaps the only gift whieh had over to the children before they start Cost loss (han twenty pounds was on their honeymoon ae bale TON's OWN’ ofteriDg, “a shotograph of herself ina plain silve Sir Ralyh smiled benigniy A 5 e s frame, her customary present. when Where are they going?” he asked. one Wf her protesees was married “Everywhe: replied Lady Hyver: Under her immediate auspices ihsted, ‘thes arevgoins th (rive)! ay dears! she would say, “I have enriched you by several thousands. o ‘Vhen let them travel atl over the a y thousands of hour have introduced you to the world," he answered, “only not to right people for presentesiving at pre Japan. ‘That is their Blusbeard's cup. cisely the right moment previous ‘o board; and into that they niust nor TOU Wedding. when thes know you neither too Hite nee too mneh, — By look ‘There was wore discussivn of bide. Jong experience L haye learned tq fix tow day, But 1 am not going to - hn Pari lllustrated By Will.B. Johnst BY BON! AND LIVER with this undistinguished 1 give you my picture to compete lavishness, stand in yeur drawing-room as an artist puts his ature to a com- pleted masterpiece, so that when you look silver around upon the furniture, the cut glass, the clocks, the the engagement tablets, and the tantalus stands, the offerings of the rich whose names you have long ago forgotten, then you will confess to yourkelf m a burst of thankfulness to your fairy r that all this would never yours If it had not been for corner of the reom and apart from the more ostentatious homago, stood on a small table a large market- basket, in which was lying a huge red fish, a roguish, rollicking mullet with a roving eye, all made out of a soft crinkly silk, In the basket beneath it were rolls and rolls of plain silk, red In a and white. This was an offering from the Japanese community in London, the conventional wedding present of every Japanese home from the only other richest in size small to the poorest, and splendor. On an table lay a bundle of brown objects like prenistoric’ axe heads, bound round with red and white string, and vaguely odorous of bjoater-paste, These were dried flesh of the fish called katsuohushi by the Japanese, whose absence also would have brought misfortune to the newly married. Behind them, on a little tray, stood a miniature landscape rep= resenting an aged pine-tree b the varying seashore and a little cottage with a couple of old, old people standing at its door, two exquisite ttle dolls dressed in rough. poor kimonos, brown and white, The old man holds a rake, and the old woman holds a broom. They have very kindly faces and white silken hair, Any Japanese would recognize them at once as the Old People of Takasago, the personi- fication of the Perfect Marriage. They are staring with wonder and alarm at the Brandan sapphires, a monumen- tal parure designed for the massive y-Vietorian Lady state of some Ea: Brandan. \ AKO FUJINAMI had spent days rejoicing the arrival of her presents, little interested in the identity of the givers but fas- cinated by the things themselves. She had taken hours to arrange them in harmonious groups. Then a new gift would arrive which would upset the balance, and she would-have to begin all over again Besides this treasury in the dining- room, there were all her clothes, packed now for the honeymoon, a whole wardrobe of fairy-like dis- guises, wonderful gowns of all col- ors and shapes and materials. These, it is true, she had bought herself She had always been surrounded by money; but it was only since she 4 er lived with Lady Everington that she had begun to learn something about the thousand different ways of spend ing it, and all the lovely things for which it can be exchanged, So all her new things, whatever thei source, seemed to her like presents, like unexpected enrichments, — She had basked among her new acquisi tions, silent as was her wont when she was happy, sunning herself in the warmth of her prosperity, Best of all, she never need wear kimonos again in public, Her fiance had ac ceded to this, hey most immedi- ate wish he could dress now like the girls around her. no longer be sturec u shop window, Inquisitive fipgers would longer cluteh at the lon sleeves crinkled) silk or try to probe th ret of the huge butterfly bow on her back, She coukt step out fearlessly now like English women She could give up the mincing walk and the timid manner whieh she (cit wus somehow inseparable from her native dre: When she told her protectress that Geoffrey bad consented to ile aban. my She would at like a eurio in no ot ae CMe, IGHT. donment, Lady Evertngton had heaved @ sigh. “Poor Kimono!"’ she served you well. But L dier is glad to put his uniform away when the fighting over, Only, never forget the mysterious power of the uniform over the other sex."* Another day when her Ladyship had been in a bad mood, she had snapped: “Put those things away, child, and keep to your kimono. It is your natural plumage. In those borrowed plumes you look undistinguished and underfed."’ 4p Court of St. James's proposed the health of the bride and bride- groom. Count Saito was a u, man, whom long sojourn in European countries had to some extent deorien- talized. His hair was grizzled, his tice was seamed, and he had peering way of gazing through his gold-rim med spectacles with thrust for- ward like a men half blind, whieh he said, “it has suppose a sol- is HE Japanese Ambassador to the t L certainly was not “Ladies und gentiemen,’’ he" said, “it is a greut pleasure for me to be present on this soccasion, for I think this wedding is a personal compliment to myself und to my work in this splendid country. Mr. and Mrs. Geof, frey Barrington are the living symbols of the Anglo-Japunese Alliance; and 1 hope they will always remember the responsibility restin on their shoulders. The bride and bridegro of to-day must feel that the relati of Great britain and J. an depend upon the perfect harmony of thei marvied life, Ladies and gentlemen let us drink long life and happine to Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Barrington, to the Union Jack aud to’ the Risine Sun!" The toast was drunk and three cheers were given, with an extra cheer for Mrs. Geoffrey. The hus: band, yho was no hand at spevel- making, veplied—and his good-natured voice was quite thick with emotion—g that it was awfully good of them all to give his wife and himself such a ripping send-off, and awfully godd of Sir George and Lady Everington espe- cially, and uwtully good of “Bount Saito; and that he was the happiest man in the world and the luckiest, and that his wife had told him to teil them all that she was the happiest woman, though he really did not why she should be. Anyhow. he would do his best to give he Jolly good lime. He thanked his friends for their good wishes and for their beautiful presents. They had had joily geod times logether, and, in return for oll their kindness, he and his wife wanted. to wish them all a jolly good time, © spoke Geoffrey Barrington; and Ss. that moment many people present must have felt a pang of regret that this fine specimen of Eng land's young manhood should marry an Oriental. He was over six feet high. His broad shoulders seemed to stoop a little with the lazy strength of a good-tempered carnivore, of Una's lion, and his face, whi was almost round, was get by a mance of the real lion color He wore his mustache rather longer than was the fashion. It was a face which seemed dy to lau al any moment—-or else to yawn Vor there Was about the man’s character und Appearance something indolent and half-awakened } much of the schoolboy. Yet he was over thirty But there i always « tendency for army life, to be merely a continua tion of pAblic-school existenc Eton merges into Sandhurst, and dburst merges into the regiment. One's com panions are all the time men ¢ the sume class and of the same ideas. ‘The discipline ix the same, the conyention ality and the presiding fetish of Gaod and Bad borm So muny Generals are perennial school boys. They lose their freshness, that is all But Geoffrey Lurrington had net lost his freshness, ‘This was his great charm, for he certainly Was not quick or witty, Lady Bverington said: that she kept him as a disinfectant to purity the atmosphere Tin hotse he declared, “onne times gets overseented with tu rove Tien T open the winaow aad tet Cieoffrey Barrington 1 Me was the only son of Lord Bran- Nei dan and heir to that ancient but im- poverished title, He had been brought up to the idea that he must marry a rich wife. He neither jibbed foolishly at the proposal, nor did he surrender lightly to any of the willing heiresses hot nearly fugitive melqtt unless sho is the wrong kind of wife It was a wrench for the little lady to purt with the oldest of her friend- ships, and to give up her Geoffrey (9 the cure of this decorative stranger so who threw themselves at his head, whose qualities were unknown and un- He accepted his destiny with the fatal. developed, But she knew what the ism which every soldier must curry in answer, would be at the end of the his knapsack, and took up his pe as Mars in attendance in Ludy Ev: fortnight to laugh So she steeled her nerves at her friends’ commisera- ington’s drawing-room, recognizing tions und to make the marriage of her that there lay the strategic point for godchildren one of the season's #uc achieving his purpose. Ho was not cesses. It would certainly be an in without hope, too, that besides obtain- teresting addition to: her museum of ing the moneybags he might be so domestic dramas fortunate as to fall in love with the possessor of them, HER was one person whom Asako Fujinami, whom he had first met at dinner at Lady Everington had crossed his. mind just like an quisite bar melod He mude comments at the time, but he not forget her, ‘The haunting tune back to him ugain and again, By the time that she had floated in hiss arms through — three four dances, the spell had La belle dame sans merci, the enchan- tress who lurks in every woman, had him in thrall, Her simplest observa tions med to him to be pearls of wisdom, her every movement triumph of grace “R he said to his friend For- Lady Everington was determined to pump for information on that wedding-day, and had drawn into the net of h invitations for this very purpose. It was Count Saito, the Japanese Ambassado She cornered him as he was admir- ing tHe presents, and whisked him away to the silence and twilight of her husband's study. “I um so glgd come, Count Suito suppose you know the> Fujinamis, Asako's relatives in Tokyo?" No, Ido not know them,"" His Ex- cellency answered, but his tone con- veyed to the lady's instinct that he personally would not wish to know them ~ ‘Tut not?" “Yes, I have heard the nami are many families called Fuji Japan Are they ox- no could or worked you were able to she began. "f texgie,"" syth, “what do you think of that little Japanese girl?’* Regzie, who was a diplomat by pro- fession and a musician by the g of God, and whos intuition was al most feminine especially where Geot- trey was concerned, answered, “Why, Geoffrey, are you of marrying her $y Jove!" exclaimed his friend, sturting at the thought as ut dis: covery; “but f don’t think she'd have me I'm not her sort “You never can tell,’ suggested Re mischievously: is quite unspoilt, and she has twenty thousand “4 yeu he unique You could not possibly get her confused with somebody: else's wife, as so many fo Mystery. Lam sure. There is one people seem to do when they get mar. family of Fujinami who have many tied. Why not. try?” houses and lands in Tokyo und other Reggie thought that such a mating towns. fb will be quite open with you Was impossible. but it amused him to They are rather what you in England play with the idea. As for Lady Ever- Call nowveaue riches.” ington, who knew every one so well, uly! Her Ladyship was taken and who thought that she knew them back for a moment. “But you would perfectly, she never gu ad, never notice it with Asako, who you’, yeu know the name, do you there emi in thinking very rich?" “Yes, 1 believe sthere are some who are very rich,’ Mid the little diplo mat. who clearly was ill at ease. “Where their money come from?’ his inquisitor went re morselessly You are keeping some thing from me, Count Saito. Please be frank, if there is any mystery “Oh no, Lady Bverington. tere does on I thiak, Geoffrey, that you like to 1 mean, she does not drop her be seen with Asako,"’ she said, ‘just Japanese aitches, and that sort o to point the contrast.’” thing, does she Her confession to her sister, Mrs Oh no," Count Saito reassured her Markham, was the trugh, She had ‘I do not think Mademoiselle Asak made « mistake; she had destined talks Jupunese language, so, sbe can Asuko for somebody quite diff . It not drop her uitches. was the girl herself who had been the “I never thought of that,’’ his hos; first to enlighten he tess continued, ‘t thought that if her hostess's boudoir one evening be- Japanese had money, he must be fore the labors of the night began daimyo, or something." “Ludy Georgie," she had aid The AmbLussador smiled Lady Everington ts Lady Georgie to | “English people,"’ he said, ‘do not all who know her even a little, ‘sl know very well the true condition o} faut que je vous dise quelque chose,” Japan. Of course we have our rich new families and our The girl's face need downward and poor old families ewise, as her habit was when em- Just as you have in England. In some hanvananel asbects our society is just the same as yours. In others, it ts so different 5 that you would lose your way at one: HEN Asako spoke in French It i maze of ideas which would seem meant that something grave to you quite upside down.” was afoot. She was afraid Lady Everington interrupted his re that her unsteady English might flections in a desperate attempt to get muddle what she intended to say. something out of him by a surprise Lady Everington knew that it must attack be another proposal; she had already — **How interesting,’’ she sald, “it will dealt with three be for Geoffrey Barrington and his ‘th dien, cotte fois qui est-il?" wife to visit Jupan and find out all “Le capitaine Geoffroi,’ answered about it.” Asako. ‘Then her friend knew that it ‘The Ambassudér's manner changed Was serious o, I do not think,’ he said, “Lr “What did you say to him?" she do not think that is u good thing at demanded all, They must not do that. You “T tell him he must o sk you must not let them “But why drag me into it? I's “But why not?” your own affair.’ “I say to all Japanese men and “In France and in Jupan.’’ said women who live a long time in foreign Asako, “a girl do not say Yes or No countries or who murry foreign herself, It is her father and her people, ‘Do not go back to Japan.’ mother who decide. 1 have no fath a pan is like a little pot and the for or mother; so I think he must ask elgn world is like a big garden, If you," you plant a tree from thg pot into the “And what do you want me to garden and let it grow, you cannot say?" put it back into the pot again. For answer Asako gently squeezed “But, in this case, that is not the the elder womun's hand, but Lady only reason,’’ objected Lady Evering- Georgie was in no mood to return the pressure, he girf at once felt the ‘o, there are many other reasons absence of the response, and said: toc the Ambassador admitted; and “What, you do not like the capi- he roxe from his sofa, indicuting that laine Geoffroif’’ the Interview was at an end. But her fairy godmother answered ‘The bridal pair left in a motor car ton bitterly, — for Folkestone under a hailstorm of “On the contrary, T have a con- yice, und with the propitious white siderable affection for Geoffrey slipper dangling from the number- “Then,” cried Asako, starting UP. plate behind “you think Iam not good enough for Wien all icy guests were gone, wo ie paraune Hee adi Lady Everington fled to her boudoir She began: toncrys BPS and ccllapsed in a little heap of sob- superiicial harness, ial) Ryeripgto’ ving fuery on the broad divin, She ee eaten eh Was overtingl no doubt; but the sense “Dearest child,” she xald, raising OF fee mistake lay Vy upon het AMe LICtien inolae fine: toners und the fueling that she had sacrificed cry, \n:Mnglind weanawer-(his great (© tt Her ext triend, ithe most ‘hi manty valuable of ull the people wih aMestion ourselves, Our fathers nd eee en en Ate eit cloud mothers and fairy ZodMothers Tie tO eee ae ie tna hh tone snot coneur. If Geoffrey Barrington 1 Komvateny = over young ma sked you to murry him, it ls because “48C, one of those sinister unfa4 he loves You. He docs not scatter Milur forces which travellers brin proposals like calling-cards, as some ngme trom the Beles the ow eof young men do, In fact, 1 have never y ; e a secret poison or a hideou heard of him proposing to any one be- ©!” fore. He does not want you to say It would be so natural for those t ‘No,’ of cours But are you quite to Want to visit Japan and to kno’ ready to ‘Yes’ Very well, wait their seeund home Yet both & u fortnight, and don't see more of him Rulph Cairne and Count Saito, t than you can help in the mean time, only two men that day who kn Now, let them send for my masseuse. anything ubout the rei! econditio! There is nothing so exhausting to the had insisted that such a visit wou aged as the emotions of young be fatal. And who were these Fuji people.’ mis whom Count Saito knew, but di That evening, when Lady Evering- Rot know? Why had she, who wi fon met Geoffvey at the theatre, she 80 Socially careful, taken so much f took him severely to task for treach- ranted just because Asako was ery, seerecy and decadence. He was Japanese very humble and admitted all his . — - faults except the last. pleading as his A page of this start- oxeuse that he could not get Asako 9, A. out of his head ling international story-ex- “Yes, that bs at symptom,” said her posure will be printed daily rescue. All Lean dois to congratulate. Read it and get a riew idea you bolb, bul, semember, « wity is Sof Japan and Japaneas lifey.