The evening world. Newspaper, September 13, 1922, Page 24

Be: i COPYRIGHT, 1922. BY BON! AND LIVERIGHT. 2) THE CHARACTERS IN THE STORY. fishermen, dwarfish es Xavier hundred yoars ago, An- grubby, bare feet pattering on the and began to speak to her in Jap- 8 soon as the meal was over, courtesans. He began to be sorry, a THE HONORABLE GEOFFRSY BARRINGTON, son of Lord "t#ining at tlt Onl OF sitene Pro ROCA THERM eLclanes Teelenhed Wien to-watin (HRN) BlAje’ a MONAT: Ball ir oe On 8 Asako went to bed. She was that he had come, 5 : ‘ Le ; : ' tha Gotten tie boat: egeine| ima, now moored to the mainland, It plensed him to watch them, play- nel politeness {s puto} TE have’ BRMER ie Brandan, a Captain in the British Army, resigns his commission cay ne) ‘ % the locked centuries tho ing their game of Jonkenpan with order,’ thought Geoffrey, ‘they seem tired out by an orey Of tends of mine,’ ‘ssid baltecaoa hen he weds LL Aegis merchants had been permitted much show of pudgy fing: nd with forward and Inquisitive minxe: sight-seeing and new im- all the world, “for pleasure artistia MISS ASAKO FUJINAMI, heiress, daughter of Japanese parents who Binesylt. He could main in profitable servitnd trained and fitful scamperings. He But Asako only knew a few set pressions, Geoffrey sald that he would rather than carnal; though perhaps the « nrantine officers ame 0 utiv vie Oo} m t= 0 of r na e cue. * y ely are dead, brought up and educated in French convent schools and “‘' oe 1 ESSA THK Ih WHIEOH, A ANTE GEDDEE ROINE irae lUAPTTNA UR Seah WHEE tig have a short walk and a smoke before T can safely prophesy that the pleas introduced to London society by t etake. Then the MO RIE tee: tila: LatPdaee & whlnered: conmultntion Aids wore Cimmine inr BO 'tbok then fond WiikH Hen Cole e eciien ta Oke end) cera troduced to_ y b) an ihe w 1 ese, pered co 6 at ra five f 5 LADY EVERINGION, a brilliant matchmaker, who did not foresee ‘ swarm of those Gravely and In turn each child pock« giggling behind es, went off to led towards the harbor of Naj fitiedad dance at dana, the Sages , the result of the bringing together of the two. At the reception i. bid boats called sam- {his penny; but they all regarded iend who would solve the Chonkina, Chonkina, Chon, Chon. saki reel, tho famous Chonkina 0 i toasts are drunk to the closer union of Britain and Japan, but ! LL 0 ere i Hite ins neat asly Pay Tnsneetion ii + she Hina, Kina, Yokohama, Nasoasaki, Geoffrey felt very silent and rather both British and Japanese diplomats in the distinguished com- ne oe merohanta of 1 s angelic than at first Hakodate—Hot! on if 7 Chonkinal tho nal H pany evade the suggestion that the couple visit Japan, as appears | € She wa: ene, tortolseshell, p ny horror of unwiped je dishes were produced The refrain of an old song was React mie fea ‘ to be their desire. Some of the reception guests frankly question * sdedal sod att post-cards aboard the es nm, and the signifi- ve Pi a i snl) ie ate awakened in lis mind by the rielodi« modesty, hiding theie tates baeuail re the wisdom of the marriage and doubt the possibility of a happy Bren eDOuioere 7 were Oe ne ron He A Rte ik thn eae ee ee ite enost unpatatapie, Cul Rams of the place their long kimono sleeves. infe for the pair. Lady Lverington, in her anxiety for the young “"?" a Les ntl Dh Het hy und, ‘the momen | Geortrey and his wife started appeared. She could He descended the hill from the ho A servant girl pusted open the walls Captain, who has been her special protege, interviews ead Ww Per 1s the oy nese soll brought a pang of once mote on thelr voyage of discov- cnglish tel, and crossed a bridge over a nar- “tich communicated with the next COUNT SAITO, the Japanese Ambassador, who tells her the Fuji- ‘herited hot of uppointment e@ sea front at ery. Nagasaki is a hidden city; it 8 Okusains aay) tied she tow fiver: ‘fie town waa full) of wai lta ee of yes ces in V amis 2 e iches 2 rive Japanese wome ho never coy sasaki seemed very like a street in flows through {ts narrow valleys like began, after she had placed the tiny rig y were sitting, An elderty | namis belong to the nouveaux riches of Japan, but gives little oe 1s, W : oun Mehoeerriny rope Meee aad followa their uscpanting wae table before Geoffrey and had Peavy. The warm light in the litte woman in a sea-grey kimono wae i information of their origin or the source of their wealth. A visit an ee women, in charge of children or mar- tings far inland, performed a prostration. wooden houses, the creamy light of Sduatting there silent, rigid and digni- be to his wife's guardians, a Japanese family living in Paris, a h# avoid wearing them i is et baskets, stared blankly an extra man to push behind, Geoffrey assented. tho paper walls, illuminated from [id Ver a moment Geoffrey though x sojourn among the cosmopolitans of Deauville sharpens the de- ey ave wearing kimonos! rekshaws had brought them up a But I can't speak Japanese,” said within, with the black silhouettes of Aah ® mistake had been made, that i sire to see Japan. Aboard the ship they meet un t Asako, “but how dirty and hill to a cautious wooden gate- Asako, laughing. This perplexed the his was another guest disturbed tn Re NEC i ' - Reng cae They 100 though lif open in a close fence of girl, but her curtosity prompted her, the home groups traced upon them, «tllet reflection and about to be justly fe VISCOUNT KAMIMURA, returning home to wéd a bride chosen View ¥4 ils tight 9 za OS a muta eiria’?"? tl indignant be des ta hat fannie M en sleeping in them!" t 00, ‘Danna San (master) Ingiris'?’’ the lanterns dancing on the boats In ‘"UeUan* by his family whom he has never seen. A stop at Nagasaki is Mountains en. the horizon toward Wonien, indecd, cling ‘‘Tealiousel’ said +t rickshaw she ig at Geoffrey. ire HanbORS Live TIBHEN TOUCH ETENGER Geter ico cio in Een ircaiee Ri tie first sight of real Japan. A part of the revelation is the Sbich U p was ploughing her 4, qyeir national dress. But to the man. stopping and grinning, ‘Tt was‘ Agake, "DO MEAY \egasiwiin ati pattern like pro Sr her lap the white iso of @ samisen, 5 chonki r Geisha dance, seen by B sto! COMpAHY h wa Ra landing at Nagasaki, clearly expected of the foreigners that Englishmen have Japanese wives?" i : patterns Uke propost- the native banjo, upon which she chonkina or Geisha dance, seen by Barrington in company with i dotis of Wdella at t : two English acquaintances “Look, tl ugly, they should descend and ent hd sry many,’’ was the unex. tiens of Euclid, the lanterns on carts strummed with @ flat white bone, She A le Kiewarh é ay eae r halr was greasy « iall we get out and explore, pected wer Fuji San,'? she and rickshe terns like fruit, red, W®S te evening's orchestra, an old CHAPTER 111—Continued. rein love and uneofitrolied : ae ke faces were stupid and heart?" — suggeste Geoffrey, continued, indicating one of the other golden and glowing, and round bubble Bes! i : URCay you ink Gat Gadus. in Her eyes were fixed on an emerald firtiren’ tdden td y passed under the low gate, up # maids, ave Ingivis’ danna san very lamps over each house entrance with The six little butterflios Hned up ta HE long fea VOY- pngiand marry because they love each let half a mile or less from th thcit divty, garments, pebbled pathway through the sweet- many years ago; very kind danna Chinese characters written upon them front of her and began to dance, not age was a pleas- Ginero asked Asnko. . steamer's course, a jewel of the se u it Barringtons’ sampan, a est iry garden to the entrance of ve O Yuji p ty nice kimon giving the name of occupant our Western dance of free limbs, but ant experience, “pernaps so,” replied Kamimura, Ht rose to the height of two hundred i came alongside the house, a stage of brown he say, O Fuji very good girl, go to Chonkina! Chonkina! an Oriental dance from the hips with broken by flee St dea lanpinwe we rent. or § ‘ al knoll, densely art s black with coal-dust, beards highly polished and never de- Ingiris’ wit lim; O Fuji s: No, mgh in answer to his posturings of hands and feet. - They, ‘ in our Japan new u ing visits (0 nave no word which is quite the same Wooded, On t immit appeared i and in one corner was heaped a pile filed by the contamination of muddy cannot go, mother very sick; #0 , Geoffrey suddenly came up- £928 a harsh faltering song wi ihaahs, tent as your word love. So they say we fear of rock like a ritined castle, and, « low baskets, such as are used boots. On the steps of approach a danna san go away. Give O Fuji San um. Wigram had been a fel- ®"Y apparent relation to the acoom- sige ton and My do not know what this love is. It may Tisine ' ock'’s crest, a single in coaling vessels at Japanese ports, cc n of geta (native wooden finger ring enger board th amer, Paniment played by that austere Bike pay ie rie the's0/ perhupm Anyhow) tc, Barri pine tre lis trunk was twisted by being slipped from hand to hand in clogs) and abominable side-spring 1 into rmact He was an old Btonian; and this was dame. i toes aihemerat ton Wil not wish to len 1 really the only bond between the two lina! Chonkinat intimacies of lifc on beard ship. There motley on board umatra; om whose most ele was a company p obvious ments, the noisy and bibulous pests in and the ladies of ation with whom ‘lismissed by ( the smoking-room mysterious desti they dallied, were Trey at once as being terribh ers. Beneath this scum more genlal spirits came to light, off and Government officials veturnin their posts, and a few globe-t bound on of leisure. veryhody med anx- fous to pay attention to the charm- ing Japanese lady; and from such Incessaut attention it is difficult: to escape within the narrow bounds of ship life. The only way to keep off the impossibles was to form a body- guard of tie possibiles, The seclu rion of the honeymoon adise had to be opened up for once in a way Of course, there was much talk about the Kast; but it was a different point of view from that of the en thusiasts of Deauville and the Riviera These men and women i many of them lived in India, the Malay States, Japan, or the open ports of China, lived there to earn their bread and butter, not to dream about the Magto of the Orient Vor such as these the romance had faded. “Yes, they would say about the land of their exile, “it is very pictur- esque.” The most faithful of Asako's body- guard was a countryman of her own, Viscount Kamimura, the son of a cole- brated Japanese statesman and diplo- mat, who, after completing his course at Cambridge, was returning to his own country for the first time af many years. He was a shy gentle youth, very quiet and refined, a little effeminate, even, in his exaggerated gracefulness and in his meticulous care for his Clothes and his person, He avoided all company except that of the Barring tons, probably because a similarity in i | circumstances formed, bond between him and his country-woman. He was returning to Japan to be married. When Geoffrey asked hin who his flancee was, he replied that he did not know yet, but that hi» relatives would tell him as soon as ever he arrived in Japan. “Haven't you got any say in the matter?’’ asked the Englishman. i “Oh yes,"’ he asnwered, “tf I actu- ally dislike her, I need not marry her; but, of course, the choice ts limited, so I must try not to be too hard to please."" Geoffrey tl nt that tt must be be: cause of his extreme aristocracy that #0 few maidens in Japan were worthy of his hand, But Asako asked question, “Why is the choice so smi } “You see,” he said, “there many girls in Japan who can both English and French, and as I am } going into the Diplomatic Service and shal! leave Japan again shortly, that is an absolute necessity; beskles, she must have a very good degr m her school." Geoffrey could hardly restrain him- the are not speak tr seif from laughing. ‘This idea of choosing a wife like a governess for her linguistic accomplishments seemed to him exceedingly comic. You don't mind trusting other peo pie,"’ be said, “to arrange your mar- riage for you? ‘Certainly not,’’ said the young Japanese, ‘they are my own relatives, and they will do their best for me. They are all older than I am, @ Uiey have had the oxperience of their own marriages. “But,” sald Geoffrey, “when you aw your friends in England choosing for themselves and falling in love and marrying for love's sake'’—— “Bome of them chose for themselves emt married barmaids and divorced Persone, just for the ‘that they ; 4 c think Geoffrey liked the young man was 0g h as imassun ing and well-bred, he clearly knew the diffrence betwe ad bad form The company of thi ng aristo cvat, In no way 1 from an hi except certain grace and maturity, reassured hin No doubt his wife would have cousin like this; clean, manty fellows who would take him) shooting and wit whom he could enjoy a game of Kamimura left the boat with ten at Colombo and joined therm in thei visit to some tea-planting relative He was ready to do the at sin apore but he received an ur ailing him at o from Japan rec “T must not be too late for my own wedding, he id, during their Inst lunch together at Raffles’s Hotel. "Tt would be a terrible in agninst th laws of Bi Viety “Whatey s tha asked Asoko, “Dear Mrs. Barrington, ave you a daughter of Japan nde ney heard of the 'Pwenty w Children “No; who are they! “They are model children, the para gons of goodness, celebrated because of thi love for their fathers and mothe One of them walked miles and miles every day t t water from a certain: spring for mother; another, when a t going to eat his fatl r the animal and eried, ‘No, eat me instead!’ Little boys and girls In Japan are always being told to be like the Twenty-four Children."’ “Oh, how Vd hate them!" cried Asako, “That is because y lious, individualistic hw You hav Jost that sense of union which makes good Ji se, brothers and cousins and & les and aunts, all love each other publicly, howe much they may hate each other in priv “That is very hypocritical!" “Tt 18 the social law,"? npplied Karr mur “tn Japan the tamily is t most innportant thing.” CHAPTER 1V Nagasaki. Hono-bono to thush no ura no isa-pirl nt Shima-kakure-yubw Pune wo shi zo omou My thoughts are with # boat Which travels d-hid In the morning-mist Dim, dim! FTER Hongkong, they left the zone of eternal summer be hind them, The crossing from Shanghai to Japan was rough, and the wind bitter, Tut on the first morning in Japanese waters jooffrey was k betimes to en- Joy to the t xeltement of It was a misty dawn sky was like mother-of-peurl and the sea like mlea, Abrupt xt 1 and p disappeared, pal, like guardian Japan, representatives of t myriads of Shinto dei y AV th in their keepin uddenly from behind the boat came glidi at etateliness of a swan. The body of the boat was low and slender, built of some white, shining wood; from the middle rose the hiv sail ke a silver tower, 1 eH of that ping island upon a dream j The n y w vealing more islands a re boats Some of them passed quite ose tc the steamer; and Geottrey, soyfld see em * ‘ THE EVENING WORLD, WEDNESDAY, SE doesragreenscisee Ne ie “ONE OF THEM PUT HER ARM AROUND GEOFFREY'S NECK AND ‘MY DARLING, YOU LOVE lean branches groped the ar the down again to coal The 10 the dark corridors of the arms of a blinded demon, It seemed work was finished, The Nghter was sofia binned adinon a 1846 Menty except for a crowa’ of cost, House thero was an immediate flut- tering as of pigeons. Your or five ttle women prostrated themselves before the yisitors with a hissing murmur of “Trasshal! (Condescend to come!).”" The Barringtons removed pression of fruitless fe yet somehow sinister-—a heus among trees, Geo, «1 his wife's gaze to the bas the Island where a shoal of brown rocks trailed out to seawards, In a striving, stained coolies which it was bringing back to Nagasaki, These were dressed like rickshaw - men. They wore Ught trousers, short jackets and straw sandals, They were sitting, wearied, on the sides of the barge, wiping thejr boots and followed one of these ladies miniature bay he say a tiny beach of black faces with black towels, Their n sand, and, planted in the sand, hair was long, lank and matted, @own @ gleaming corridor with an- f red gateway, two up ts and two ‘Thetr hands were bruised and shape- °ther miniature garden in an enclosed lntels, the lower one held between tho less with the rough toil. courtyard on one side, and paper posts, the upper one laid across them — ‘Poor ." picked Asakco, Shoji and peeping faces on the other, und protruding on either wide, It is sy've had hard work!" out across @ further garden by a kind the simplest of avehttectural designs, The crowd of them 7 peering Of orlental Bridgo of Sighs to a small but strangely suggestiv It trans. at the Enel >and chattering Separate navilion, which floated on a ymed that wooded island into a in had never lke of green shrubs and pure air, dwelling place, It cast an enchant- se r ng fellows, with 83 though moored by the wooden ment over it, and seemed to explain. the hair, clean shaven faces, 82Nsway to the main block of the the meaning of the pine tree, ‘The an how 1 One more di- building place was holy, an abode . ; an ti Was standing ‘Thi8 summer-house contained a 1 dlenough by now to BF 0 Alf open. single small room like a very clean re ya Be gIRTP EA TE RENT PY xeinimed, bOX With wooden frame, opaque pan ious symbol in Jap: , y r ordinary thing!" walls, and pale golden matting. Ways announces the neigi dof the children of Nagasaki—sure ffrey and his wife sat dowa or It is a co 1 ce disillusion- sprawled on square silk cushions nt . ment. ‘Th are Iuughi happy, called zabuton, Then the shoft were x in Catholic many colored and ubiquitous, They thrown open; and they looked down But Asako, roll under the rickshaw wheels, They upon Nagasaki. her country for the fir tim peep m behind the goods piled on It was a scene of sheer enchant- unawa ef the dimming cloud t ors the shops, a perpetual ment, The tea-house was perched on archaeological explanations, clapped nace t opkeepers, especially in a cliff which overhung the city, T nds together three time n china where their bird- ght pavilion med lke the ca) Nght; or was it in uncon. lke presence is more dangerous than of some Pullman »plane hovering ohedience to the custom of that of the dreaded bull, They are over the bay. It was the brief haly- which in this Way ealls upor ity Blown up and down the temple steps hour of evening, the time of day when Then with movement en n petals, They gather like the magic of Japan is at its most occidental she th her arm mming birds round the itinerant powerful. All that was cheap and id her husband's n salng Venders of the streets, the old men gordid was shut out by the bamboo With all the devotion of her beings, Who balance on their bare shoulders fence and wrapped away in the tw “Dear old Geoffrey, 1 love you their whole stock in trade of sweet~ light mists she murmured, 1 b eyes were ais, RYPUpS, toys ¢ ng grass- Two Iittle maids brought tea unt full of tears pers. the dolls of our sugary cakes, green tea like bitter hor e steamer glided up the t hildhe i with disconcerting water, insipid and unsatisfying. 1+ wi A cloud of black sir ahead, life was a shock to seo the girls’ facos 9 Unknown to Geoffrey, it the They invaded the depressing atinos- they raised the tiny china teacups gray Italianate Catholic cathedral, the phere of the European stylo hotel, Under the glaze of their powder they shrine of the old Christian faith of Where Geoffiey and Asuko were try> \ old and wise, ; Japan planted there by Maint Francis img to enjoy ® tasteless lunch—thelr They observed Asake's nationality, Illustrated By Will. B. Johnstone. PTEMBER 13, 1922. : men ‘Hello, Barrington,” he said, “you all alor "Yes," answered ny sa bit overtired; sh you are making. y yportunity, study Not much about, is there y, who considered that a and h even 1 re whose of view w as contemptible as that of Wigram. Doesn streets, old man; but it's there all the same. The men at the ciub tell me that Naga saki is one of the hottest spots on the 6 of the glob ems sleepy enough,” answered “Oh, here! these are just 7 warehuuses and const s asleep. But you come wit me and seo them danco the n dna, Gee i at this echo of his own he said “T must be getting back; my wife will be anxious.” “Not yet. not yet. It will be all o In batt an hour, and it's worth seetr Tam going to the club to L fellow who said he'd show me th ope Geoffrey allowed himself to be suaded Chonkina! Chonkina! other girl showed with feigned em- WW! shouldn't he go ; é He was introduced to Wigram's barraasinent: a “little ring) sot. with friend, Mr. Patters Scotch mer eR A chant of Nagasaki, who lurched out of ni"’ said Asako, dimly compre- tye ciub in his habitual Saturday eve hending. , * : ning state of mellow inebriation ‘All Ingiris’s danna san-come Nagi Hayne HOD saki,"’ the talkative maid ut on, aie ‘want Japanese girl. Ingiris’ danna run pars sesmet to know. with san kind man, but too plenty drink Instructional whither they baul:to Japanese danna san not kind, not From the a drum. “Chonkina to be beating The rickshalws turned into a broader good. Ingiris’ danna san plenty money, distance came the beat of plenty. Nagasaki girl very many for- eign danna san. Rashamen wn Na- gasaki meibutsu (foreigners’ =m. tresses famous product of Nagasaki). Chonkina,"* {t seemed giris’ danna san go away all the Slee with houses taller and more time. One year, two year—then go in any seen hithe away to Ingtris's country.” of brown wood i “Phen what does the Japanese & ta, and were bun do? asked Asako. with red pa lanterns like hug “Other danna san come,'’ was the ‘pe cherries. Another stage-lke entrance, more fluttering of women and low prostra- tlons, a procession along shining cor- laconic reply. A wetrd unpleasant feeling had stolen into the little room, the presence of unfamiller thoughts and of foreign ridors and up steep stairways like moralities, birds of unhealth. companion - laddera, everywhere The two other girls who could not heavy smell of cheap scent and speak English were posing for Geof- frey's benefit; one of them reclining against the framework of the open window with her long kimono sleeves crossed in front of her like wings, her painted oval face fixed on him tn spite of the semblance of downcast eyes; the other squatting on her heels tn a cor- nor of the room with the same demure expression and with her hands folded powder, The three guests were installed, squatting or lounging around a low table with beer and cakes. There was a chorus of tittering and squeaking voices {n the corridor. The partition slid open, and elx little women camo running {nto the room. atasan San! Patasan San!"" they orled, clapping their hand in her lap. Despite the quietness of “por, last were the butterfly the poses they were as challenging 12 yomen of the traveller's Imagination their way ay the swinging hips of Pie- hey wore bright kimoi red and cadilly ble embroidered with ld thread From a wing of the building nearby qtr, (otey were pale like porcelain came the twanging of a string, like @ Jit, the enamelling effect of the banjo string being tuned in fantastic liquid powder which they use, Their quarter tones. A few sharp notes were 1 By pair, like Hquorice, was struck, at random it seemed, followed MOC Bhimy Cis vie volutes, which by a few bars of a quavering song ond ees dorned with silver bell-like then a burst) of clownlsh laugh prnamenia and paper flow Chol Young bloods of Nagasaki had ¢ Ing down Geoffrey's admiration, m at the said the r meal. tea in geisha to amuse th “Japanese geisha," if danna san wish to see cloud of heavy perfume hung around them. OURO “Good day to you,’ they squeaked , Area Inglish “How do ou thank you," sald Geoffrey hur. i comical English, “How do y riedly. ‘Asako darling, It is time we aor . en you va K ni went homei we want our dinner Patte nm introduc ed them by nar CHAPTER V. as O Hana San (Miss Flower), O i Yuki San (Miss Snow), O En San Shanisine: (Miss Affinity), © Toshi San (Miss Modasht-ite Year), O Taka San (Miss Tall) ana Sakashira suru wa Sake nomite Yet-naki surv ni Nao shikusu herl © Koma San (Miss Pony) One of them arm around Ge fingers felt like the and s od “My do Miss Pony, put To ait silent And look wise le not to be compared with Drinking sake And making « rietaus shout! Iing, you love me?" The We Englishman disengaged himeelf gently. It is bad form to be rough tv women, even to Japanese » six litte figures swayed to and Chonkina! Chonkina! With a sharp ery the song and topped abruptly. The alx rigid with hands held attitudes. One of the first round and Off came the broal It was thrown ous singing began ronkinal 1 lost ag: R in, a amid shrill titterings the gorgeous scarlet Kimono fell to the ground. She wae ft standing in a pretty blue under kimono of light silk with a pale pink lesign of eherry-blossoms starred all Chonkina! Chonkina! Round after round the game was ylayed, first one girl lost and then Two of them were nding now with the upper part of heir bodies bare. They were both of them girl low skin ended att roat and neck with t wder ht vr the xeck glaze of white. ‘The s break was to make the us if 1d lost it» rea e llotine, and had 1H ied substitute con's hands Chonkina! Hoi! itn nearer to the 1 fa his Kens of what he scribed as pleasurable anticipation. Wigram his flabby ler than ever, his large eyes id his mouth hanging open, a trance, He had whis- offrey— “Tye seen the danse du Algiers, but this beats anything, Geoffrey from behind the fumes of the pipe-smoke watched the unreal phantasmagoria as he might have watched a dream. Chonkina! Chonkinat ‘The dance was moro expressive now, rt but of mere antmalism. The not of bodies shook and squirmed, The fact were screwed up to‘express an ecstacy venal delight. The ttle fingers vitched into immodest gestures. Chonkina! Chonkina! Hot! Geoffrey 1 never gazed on ae naked woman except idealized in mar or on canvas. ‘The secret of Venus had been for him, as for many men. an inviolate Mecca towards which he worshipped. Glimpses he had seen, visions of soft curves, mica glisten- ings of creamy skim, but never the crude anatomical fact. An overgrown embryo she a gawkish, il]-moulded thing. Woman, thought Geoffrew, be supple and pliant, with a sugges tion of swiftness galvanizing the dette of the lines, Atalanta was his ideal woman. But thts creature had apparently no bones or sinew She looked like a sawdust dummy. *There was noth- ing in this i » of clay to show the loving caress of the Creator's hand Are all women ugly? The query flashed through Geoffrey's brain. Type the vision of Aphrodite Anadyomen® an artist's lie? Then he thought off Asako. Strip auzy night dresses, W A sham on such imagin: Patterson was hugging « girl on hi knee, Wigram. had caught hold of another, Geoffrey but nobod: r me here, ko, and dis * she y be half a aske said him to “TL met Wigram with Geoffrey, 2 1 went see som geisha dancine “You might hav taken me, Was it t was very ugly; you would | , cared for it at all.’ jad a hot bath before he He down by her side. (To Be Gentinued To- Merrow)