The evening world. Newspaper, September 14, 1922, Page 24

ae ee ane : ohn Paris. = lilustrated By Will.B. Jonnstone.. COPYRIGHT, (1922. BY GON! AND LIVERIGHT. THE CHARACTERS IN THE STORY, flung out the term; and {t suddenly in her shoulder, Tanaka showed him- aka. In a quarter of an hour he THE EMBABSY been @ severe one, and Asako had re- the way which Is nover used among A : occurred to him that his own children self to be an adept at massage. came back, triumphant. Tsuu no yo no tired to rest at the hotel. Japanese—is hidden from sight. That i THE HONORABLE GEOFFREY BARRINGTON, son of Lord Brandan, a would be half-castes. Next morning he was again at his “My kisses, @weetheart,” he de- Esuyu no yo nayara “But why not come and stay here is the first remarkable thing abott ft. 4 Captain in the British Army, resigns his commission when he weds He was walking on the garden ter- post; and Geoffrey realized that an. manded, Bart nagara! with me?’ suggested Reggte. ‘The gesture of Versattles, the challenge ASAKO FUJINAMI, heiress, daughter of Japanese parents who are dead, race overlooking the starry elty. He other member had been added to his Walt,” sald Asafo; “how old is ‘ “Have you room for eight large of ‘I t c'est mol,’ the majestie brought up and educated in French convent schools and introduced to Lon- wanted a friend's presence, a desul- household. he?" While this dewdrop world hoxes of dresses and kimonos, severe: vulgarity which the millionaire of the + 5 don society by ‘ tory chat with an old pal about peo- Only on Sunday morning it was “I went out of the front door and Ie but a dewdrop world, cases of curios, a French maid, a Jap- moment can mimic with a vulgarity | s LADY EVERINGTON, a brilliant matchmaker, who did not foresee the result ple and things which they shared tn the hotel boy who brought their early there was Master Tanaka, telling the Yet—all the same!— anese guide, two Japanese dogs and less majestic, are here entirely abaents | 3 of the Ernging together of the two. At the reception toasts are drunk to the common. Thank God, Reggie For- morning tea. Tanaka was absent. rickshaw-men tho latest gossip about “i a monkey from Singapore?" and one cannot mimic the invisible. bs closer union of Britain and Japan, but both British and Japanese diplomats syth was !n Tokio. He would leave When he made his appearance he us. I said to him, ‘Tanaka, are you HE first stitches from Geot- Reggie whistled. Hardly, on bare winter days, whem ‘ in the distinguished company evade the suggestion that the couple visit Japan to-morrow. He must see Reggie, wore a grave expression which hardly me ” ‘Yes, Lordship,’ he an- frey's piece of knitting, terribly ‘No really, is it as bad as all that? the sheltering groves are stripped, and i as appears tu be their desire. Some of the reception guests frankly question igh at his queer clever talk again, suited his round fo and he carried swered, m widower.’ ny chil- botched and bungled in most I was thinking that marriage meant the saddened heart is in need of re- i the wisdom of the marriage and doubt the possibility of a happy life for the relax himeelf, and feel sane. a large black prayer-book. He ex- dren?’ I asked again. ‘I have two shoes th titeh hich Just one extra person. It would have assurance, appears a green lustre of i pair. Lady Everington in her anxiety for the young Captain, who has He was nervous of meeting his plained that he had been to church, progenies,’ he sald; ‘they are soldiers cases, There are stitches wich teen fun having you both here, and canper roofs t been her special protege, interviews wife, lest her instinct might guess He was a Christian, Greek Orthodox. of His Majesty the Emperor.’ ‘Why, &Te dropped, sometimes to be swallow- this jy the only place in Tokyo fit to The Gosho at Tokyo is not a sov- - QOUNT SAIT, the Japanese Ambassador, who tells her the Fujinamis belong to his thougiits. Yet he must not leave At least so he said how old you?’ I asked. ‘Forty- ed up and forgotten in the super- live in.” ign’s palace; it is the abode of a the noaveaux riches of Japan, but gives little information of their origin or ber any longer or his absence would — His method was one of observation, three years,’ he answered. ‘You are structure, sometimes to be picked up “It looks a comfortable little place,” God. "4 Fe the source of their wealth. A visit to his wife's guardians, the Muratas, a make her anxious imitation and concealed interrogation. very well preserved for a man of your IN after G tapes et years, ‘These Fr" Crorrey, They Bed rexcned | Ne Wot noticeable: tenvure @ ae 5 Japanese frmily living in Paris, anda sojourn among the cosmopolitans of . He returned to the rooms and found — As for the eross-examination, {tt ace,’ I said, and I have come back n after a lapse of yea nese the secretary's house, and the new- Palace is its moats. ‘These He im t Dea-stile sharpens the desire to see Japan. Aboard the ship they mect ber lying disconsolate on a@ sofa, took place in the evening, when Geof- for my kisses,"" stitches are old friendships. comer was admiring its artistic ar- three or four concentric circles, the k VISCOUNT K..MIMURA, returning home to wed a bride chosen by his family, Wrapped in a flimsy champagne-col s tired, and Tanaka tak- After this monstrous deception ‘The first stitch from Geoffrey's rangement. defences of ancient Yedo, whose outer Mf his boots Ge ious to the flancee,"” ‘Tanaka dismiss Tani : , : : ‘did Lady Barrington Ive long “A man who goes about like that,’ the scheme of his married life was ey had de ed at he would whom he has never seen. A stop at Nagasaki is the first sight of real ored dressing gown, one of the spoils Japan. A part ot the revelation is the Chonkina or Geisha dance, seen hy of Paris, Mer hair had been rapidly Barrington in company with two English acquaintances. Barrington is Combed ont of its formal native ar- bachelor days to be worked back into “Just like your rooms in London!” lines have now been fill Reggie prided himself on the ex- @' progr 1 up by mod and an clectric railway, Nis h u clusively oriental character of his They are broad sheets of water a® ia shocked by the performance. rangement, It looked draggled and time in Js he i a living lie." his friendship for Reggie Forsyth, pabitation, and Its distinction from Wide as the Thames at Oxford, where hard as though she had been bathing, He w h with titles, constder- Two s later, early in the morn- who had been best man at his wed- any other dwelling place which he @ucks are floating and fishing. Bee ‘ CHAPTER VI. uncomfortable than a corset. Thus Titine, the French maid, was remoy- ing that money and nobility in such ing, t left Kyoto by the great ging and who had sinco then been 4d ever possessed. But then Geof- Yond Is a glacis of vivid grass, a hun 5 attired she came down to dinner one ing the rejected debris of kimono and people must be inseparable; besides, metal } vad of Japan, wht has “ frey w ny Phil . dred feet high some points, topped Across Japan, appointed Bécretary 6° the Einbeasy as ony a Philistine, after all. ‘ evening, trotting behind her husband sash. experience had taught him that the replaced famous way known as 4 . ¥ assy T suppose- it's the photographs >Y ¥ * walls of cyclopean Momo-shiki no as well-trained Japaneso wife ‘Sweetheart, you've been crying,” use of such honorifies never came the Tokaido, sacred in history, legend at Tokyo. which look Ike old times.” Geoffrey Doulder-work, with the sudden angles Omiya-dito wa should do. said Geoffrey, Kissing her. amiss. ° Wee, fe ANd att. Every stone has its mesa Reggie had received a telegram went on, “How's little Veronique?” °f + Vauban fortress, Above these x Dkeredo Geoftrey tried very hard to play “You didn’t like me as a Jap, ang tai ee Ge toe Pepenele aren evere rte i Pe waving iat Geotleey Wax coring, . “Veronica married an Argentine (e's tHe weird vine trees of Jemee i Kokoro ni norite hia part in the Jittle comedy; but you've been thinking terrible things & Nttle aby : sociation with poetry romance. 7) 3 beef magnate, a rman Jew, the extend their lean, tormented boughs, ; Omoyuru imo! his good spirits were forced and grad- about me. Look at me, and tell me ‘I hip has Japanese name? “Look, look, Fujiyama ¢ was yery pleased. He had nestiest person I have ever avoided Within is the Emperor's domain. 4 ; Though the people of the ually silence fell between them. Had What you have been thinking.” u ko Fujinaml. Do you know tle 1ere Was a@ movement in the ob- reached that stage In the progress of meeting.” Geoffrey was hurrying homeward MW Great City ioettrey been able to think w ttle “Lite Yum Yum talks great non- name, Houeek a ie servation ear » were Geottrey and hig exile where one ts inordinately happy “Poor old Reggie! Was that why #!0ng the banks of the moat. os 6 Japanese “ one wife were watching the unfolding o a rite " Py WOH hic WU RdKaa Gowers more deeply he would have reallzed sense sometimes, oe matter Eta deta aGHGA ie RA ALUEUNS OF eDRGe Testy OCCU ee TiiS Coerce a nercg. to nse any old’trlend: you came to Japan?’ Witchery ts abroad in Tokyo during j Be many, that this play-acting was a very vis!- was thinking of going on to Tokyo ht Lees Ihetead’of going to the tennt “Partly; and partly because I had this briet sunset hour. The mongre} Riding a ivy Hears ble sign of the gulf which yawned be- to-morrow. I think we've seen about ba arta cara to the right beyond the tea fields and solng to the tennis court, 2 oniet in the Foreign Office who nature of the city is less evident. The F (Only) my Bethoe Sister! tween his wife and the yellow women ‘lI there ts to be seen here, don’t 8 6yt isi tatad the pine wo To the Ee Was the which was bis usual afternoon ocou- dared to say that I was lacking in New Japan assumes dignity with ! ” 8, from Tokyo. vase of e alr ‘ 5 . of Japan. She wae ucting as a white Yo"! t “Does Lanaanibe t his devoir to we GrABEOH Ine atone sp cliceaea pation, he had spent the time in ar- practical experience of diplomacy, the deep shadows and the heightens - q ‘ 3OFFREY and woman might have done, certain of jeoffrey, you want to see Reggie Merrie ia Sy eget pattie ey ‘ eee’ ranging his rooms, — shiftt the He sent me to this comic country to 1g effect of the darkness. ‘Asako enjoyed (he impostitility of confusion, But Forayth. You're getting bored and relatives of Ladyship? fragment visible It was yossible to ap- TAN heaplie Saeco, (MRALIEN y Geoffrey, sitting back in hie rele y A . 0 Ua 4 ippose so, whe ) e the architecture of the whole fur » reha . ‘ be | inmensely their Geoffrey for the first time felt his Bons ick already eet mans ek: Py neh we ee +? ba BINS Senibies TUtaoi ine tan ai ure, Tehanging the pictures, “wind you have found it right Shaw, turned up his coat-collar, aaa k | introduction to wife's exoticisin, not from the ro- | No, a ina Z ha i Bi a . rip. Cipivshigin wletva Have culls caeone tease Casal over Ha ia paying especial care to the disposition enough,” said Geoffrey, inspecting a Watched the gathering pall of cloud ' ii ett AE A tote Ct aloe eth ehh dads sore eat Bs What 1 am woRne ie residence?" asked Tanaka; it wa a the clreult of Fuj! which {t must of his Oriental curtos, his recent pur- photograph of a Japanese girl in her ¢*tingulshing the sunset. E ) Pleasant experi- the ugly, sinister, and—horrible word ; edits whether we should take Tanaka y of inquiring if they were r ‘This made Asako laugh. Any mon- tion of Tanaka’s name acted as a tal- fsman of mirth. Tanaka was the Jup- anese guide who had fixed himself on to their company remora-like, with a ences of Naga- --inferior side of it. Had he mar- saki were soon ried a colored woman? Was he a forgotten after squaw’s man? A sickening vison of ttheir arrival at chonkina at Nagasaki rose before his Kyoto, the an- imagination. cient capital of | When dinner was over, and after the Mikado, Asako had received the congratula- where the cl tions of the other guests, she retired = of old Japun still upstairs to put on her negligee. Ungers. They Geoffrey lit his cigar and made his were happy, in- way to the smoking room, Two nocent peo- elderly men, merchants from Kobe, le, devoted to each other, easily were already sitting there over pleased, and having heaps of money to whiskies and sodas, Ciscussing a mu- spend. They were amused with tual acquaintance. everything, with the people, with the ‘No, I don’t see much of him,’* one houses, with the shops, with being of them, an American, was saying, stared at, with being cheated, with ‘nobody does nowadays, But take being dragged to the ends of the vast My word, when he camo out here # city only to sce flowerless gardens 4 young man he was one of the smart- and temples in decay. est young fellows in the East.” Asako especially was entranced. The ‘Yes, I can quite believe you,”’ said feel of the Japanese silk and the sight the other, a stolid Englishman with a of bright colors and pretty patterns briar pipe, “he struck me as an ex- awoke in her a kind of ancestral mem- ceptionally well educated man." ory, the craving of erations of ‘He wus more than that, I tell Japanese women. She bought kimo- you. He was a financial genius. He nos by the dozen, and spent hours Was a man with a great future.’* trying them on amid a chorus of ad. Poor fellow!’ sald the other. miring chambermatds and waitresses, ‘Well, he has only got himself to a chorus specially trained by the hotel thank.” management in the difficult art of ad- Geoffrey was not an eavesdropper by miring foreigners’ purchases. nature, but he found himself getting ‘Then to the curio shops! The an- interested in the fate of this anony- tique shops of Kyoto give to the sim- mous failure, and wondered if he was ple foreigner the impression t he going to hear the cause of the man's is being received in a private home by downfall. a Jepanese gentleman of leisure whose —“\When these Japanese women get hobby is collecting. The unsuspecting hold of a man,” the American went prey 1» welcomed with cigarettes and on, “they seem to drain the bright specially honorable tea, the thick green ness out of him. Why, you have only Kind like pea soup. An autograph book foi to stroll around to the Kobe Club is produced in which are written the and look at the faces. You can tell names of rich and distinguished peo- ihe ones that have Japanese wives or ple who have visited the collection. j.jugekeepers right away, Somethin You are asked to add your own in- ./omy to have gone right out of their significant signature. A few glazed ¢.nresuion. earthenware pots appear, Tibetan tem- “ity worry,’ said the Englishman, ple pottery of the Han period, They a, fellow murries a Japanese girl | are on their way to the Winckler col- aig he finds he has to keep. G ir way e has to keep all her lection in New York, a trifle of a hun- 110) U0 7 j 07) es as well; and then a pen siounend dollars, crowd of half-caste brats come along The Barringtons’ rooms at the N ho dtemale Leow ence vse ed Miyako Hotel soon became like an COSRL EY BROW “WHOLDSE (Gy son its way to Tokyo. During this Chases, his last enthusiasms in thie dark silk kimono with @ dainty | Looks like snow,’’ ho sald to ; yo. Du aWRAteuaS flower pattern round the skirts and Self; “but it 1s impossttlet at the fall of the long sleeves, She At the entrance of the Imperial was not unlike Asako; only there was Hotel—a Government institution as the back regions of the house @ quan- a fraction of an inch more of bridge almost everything in Japan wlth Hity Ohlaware liek (RNC “kar cilmlae tOLiee nose/knd IN THEE trectloniiay MII. WUrne/ Out 16. Kea Aba twee the secret of her birth. standing in his characteristic attitude babes Inspiration,” of a dog who waits for-his master’s \ return, Characteristically also, he at down at the piano and played Was talking to a man, a Japanese, 2 som in a a plaintive little air, small and sweet Showy person with spectacles and eetee oily buffalo-born mustache, dressed onatserie d’hiver,” he ex- In @ vivid peagreen suit. However, sigiaee at Geoffrey's approach, this individ= ‘Then he changed the burden of his Ual raised his bowler-hat, bobbed and song into « melody rapid and wind. Vanished; and Tanaka assisted bis ing, with curtous tricklings among Patron to descend from his rickshaw, iat et Aw he approached the door of his “Lamia,” said Reggie, “or Lilith.” suite a little cloud of hotel boys “There's no tune in that last one; Scattered like sparrows. ‘This phew you can’t whistle it,"" sald Geoffrey, nomenon did not as yet mean ange who exaggerated his Philistinism to thing to Geoffrey. The native ser throw Reggic’s artistic nature into Vants were not very real to him. But stronger relief. “But what has that he was soon to realize that the boy Patsentdperliin Cheniaat ee san-—Mister Boy, as his dignity now “Her name is Smith,” sald Reggie, insists on being called—is more thant “{ know ft 1s almost Impossible and &" amusing contribution to the local terribly. padi bUtLRecbotnonsnameie Atmospherts teil kuvwb; net fase Tae, Rather wild and savage—isn't lke the untipped “boy ean.” He ree it) Like the ory of a bird in the tise tol answer the bell. He wade night time, or of a cannibal tribe on denly understands no English at alle Ene rene tiie Ifo bangs all the doors. He spends ( ‘s spare moments in devising alt kinds of petty annoyances, damp an@ dirty sheets, accidental damage te property, surreptitious draughts. And to vex one boy san is to antage onize the whole caste: it is a boyeotb But even more exasperating, since His manservant, too, produced from turo landscapes in shallow porcelain dish and big fronds of budding cherry blossom Reggie arranged the blo: triumphal arch over the corner table, @nd “And is this your oriental version of Veronique?’ asked his friend. “No,” said Reggie, ‘it is a different chapter of experience altogether. Per- haps old Hardwick was right. I still have much to learn, thank God. Ver: onique was personal; Yae is symbolic. no largesse She is my model, just like a painter's tional bent tomeninienpenens ee del, only more platonic. She 1s the does he do with his spare time, of st to me; for I cannot understand which he has so much? He apends the East pure and undiluted. She is jt in watching and listening to the’ \ country-woman of mine on her hotel guests, He has heard legenda " “SHE LIKES TO SMOKE CIGAR? where stood the silent company of the fMther's side, and therefore easier to of large sums paid for silence or fox RETTES AND DO NOTHING AND Buddhas. HBG e ra LB NGDAL TZ, ent saw MDesUne LISTEN TO MY PLAYING TUNES | !!© removed the books which were PER ADE Speco Sree Uae En go The arrival of guests so remarkabig ee lying about the room—grim Japanese f Self-tnsistence and fdealism, the gs tie Barringtons became, theref ABOUT HER. aD Sree SA tOMGdIhe roriaon Britis Hercule ¥) at once a focus for the curtosity international law; and in their place , “She is @ half-caste?" asked Geof- the ambition of the boy sans. And time the curtained presence of the he left volumes of poetry and memoira frey. rickshaw-man had told the lodge. great mountain dominated the land- and. knylish picture-papers atrewn _ “Bad word, bad word. She ten't Keeper, whose wife told the wife scape. Everything seemed to lead up about tm artistic disorder, ‘Then he balf-anything; and caste suggests In- one of the cooks, who told the to that mantle of cloud. re his own or not." gave the silver frames of his photo- ‘la and suttees. She is a Eurasian, @ waiter, that there was some conneoa annex to the show rooms in Messrs. “| i . “It's a pity we can’t see ft," snid eraphs to Toto to be polished, the denizen of a dream country which has tion between these visitors and the Yamanalu's store. Brocades and _ “It is more than that,” was the em- Geoffrey. Prater yhs of fair women, signed @ melodious name and no geographical rich Fujingm!. All the boy sana kimonos were draped over chairs and newer. Men with white fine flair for docile and profitable “7 realty don’t know at all,’ an- “Yew: it's the only big thing in the with Ch Le ,ames, of diplomats in existence. Have you ever heard any- knew what the Fujinami meant; s@ bedsteads. Tables weF® crowded with Wives have worry enough, and a man travellers swered Geoffre whole darned count said a satur a an ete Berra? ie _ grand uniforms, and of handsome for- body ask where Eurasia was? T have. here was a cornucopia of unwholee alenare \ traveling member of Parliament's gome secrets. It was the most If | Having reduced the serious atmos- Wife at the Embassy here only a few game which had arrived at the eet phere of his study so as to give an Months ago. I said that it was a large perial Hotel for years, ever since ths impression of amlable indolence, Reg- Undiscovered country lying between American millionaires wife who rei de Forsyth lit a cigarette and strolled the Equator and Tierra del Fuego. away with a San Francisco Chinaa ont into the garden, amused at his She seemed quite satisfied, and won- man. own impatience, In London he would dered whether it was very hot there; But to Geoffrey, when he broke uy never have bestirred himself for old she remembered having heard a mls- the gathering, the boy sans were just Geoffrey Barrington, who was only a slonary once complain that the Euras- a lot of queer little Japs. Philistine, after all, with no sense of ians wore so very few clothes! But Asako was lying on her sofa, read res for her mistress's second-class carriages, she wondered the inwardness of things to return to Yae, you must meet her. ing. Titine was brushing her hal son, Geoffrey had once objected, onc? more, as she saw male Japan The compound of the Embassy ts a This evening? No? To-morrow then. Asako, when she read, which was sprawling its length over the seats in fragment of British soil, The British You will ke her because she looks often, preferred literature of the sene the ugliest attitudes of repose, and flag floats over it, and the Japanese something like Asako; and she will timental school, books like The there. You female Japan squatting monkey-like authorities have no power within {ts adore Pou because you are utterly un- Ro: » with stained glass in them, : you appar- and cleaning cars and nostrils with walls, Its 1: opulation of Japa- like mo, She comes here to inspire and edy overcomes by noblenes# aps of pap or wiping stolid nese servants, about one hundred and me once or twice a week. She says of character out laughing. abies, The carriages swarmed with fifty in all, are free from the burden spe likes mo because everything in een lonely without you end@ force of the advice which had urged “own upon them, raising his hat “Oh, he ts! man, He isn’t real Children, with lug and hitter, The of Japanese taxes; and, since the my house smelly so sweet. That 1s she said, “and I've had @ her treasures, "It will be wonderful. him to beware of Japan. Here, in the s#Ying st all, He that I am like a floors were a mess of gpilled tea, police may not ente ambling, for- the bezinning of love, I sometimes visitor already. Oh, Geoffrey, Geoffrey, yoO are 80 nothed of race prejudice, evil spirit ‘an T assist you, sir?" flower, and that I am very beautiful broken earthenware cups and splin. bidden throughout the Empire, flour- think, Love enters the soil throush She pointed to a card lying on good to give al! this to me! . by poreelain, cloisonne and statues of CAN go gay in the tea houses, and He was a very small man, small gods. Lanterns hung from the roof; one the worse, But when once they eve for a Japane but plump Tt will be better. A man can do great then, when you get on to it, it’s just and in @ corner of the room stood Marry them it Is like signing a bond withal. His back view looked like foolishness if he does not detect. a heap of cindere,.”* an enormous bowl-shuped bell as big With the devil, That man's damned." that of a little boy, an illusion After this Geoff discouraged Asako was not worrying about the ts a beth, resting on e tripod of rel Geoffrey rose and left the room, contuated by the shortness of his cont manuka, ‘But Asuke shovent ines, landscape, Her thoughts were directed feoquer, "When struck with a thick He thodght on the whole It was bet- and his small straw boater with Its Nume Jove. hie made tent core to a family of well-to-do Jopeneon leather baton like @ drumstick it ‘er to withdraw than to hit that colored ribbon, Even when Ne jeer” and agree fetching and Were they relatives of hers? uttered a deep sob, a wonderful, hareh-voiced Yankee hard in the eve. turned the illusion was not quite dis- cotrying tor her, and amusing her Then, when she and her husband round, perfect sound, full of the mel- He felt that his wife had been tn- pelled; for his was a roundn ruddy, vit nix wonderful English, He al- pessed down the corridor train to Ited, chubby face with dimples, a face with ancholy of the wind and the pine Suited. | i $ _ Most succeeded tn dislodging Titine lunch, and through the swarminy forests, of the austere dignity of = . Geoffrey looked at ‘his reflection in big cheeks ripe for smacking, and It- po) hey og the long mirror in the hall. There tle sunken, pig-like eyes. ing ctvilizati d the lonell- % i ame Sy pe en ae tan they Were HO signs as yet of premature He had stalked the Barringtons dur: Porvon. | Geoftvey | f fo “Bin Ben” damnation on the honest, healthy {ng their first excursion on foot On OIE expelled from his wite's bed oat ad ee eee eeth all British face. There were signs, per- through the ancient city, knowing "Om Munn a ¢ of raiment: eae teiceet a) Leip yeaa haps, of ripened thought and expe- that sooner or later they would tose 4 "ut Tanaka ea eg ie eisontt tence, of less superficial apprecia- their way. When the opportunity of c 1 tion fered itself and he saw them gazing ©Mtly.” she answered, clapping her hands ai) was peginning to appreciate the Vasuely round at cross-roads, he b Asako had 1 anc gazing with cestatic pride at all hen T will detect for Lordship. nine American, sitting opposite; “and were ad. It was so different in ‘Yes: would you kindly tell me the in. ‘deshabeet.’ tered wooden boxes ishes th and t rambling serv- the nostrils, If you doubt me, observe small vound table, a flimsy card “But it is your own money, little proag-nearted, tolerant London, Asako way to the Miyako Hotel?’? asked That sounds real enough,” grunted | Were any of these her relatives? ¢ Quarters behind the Amba the animals. But foreign houses in printed —not engraved --on creame eatheart!”* i was charming and rich. She was re- Geoffrey. Geoffrey, “and very like a man,’ Asako shuddered, How much did she dor’s house are the Monte Carlo of the janan are haunted by a smell of dust colored pastebourd. Geoffrey picker Sever did Asako seem further from f n) and kuru- ) kyo betto (coac aya (rickshaw run ceived everywhere, To marry her was “Iam myself en route,’’ answered Perhaps no more strange than to mar a Tanaka Indeed we meet very Asako enj French gir! or a Russian, They could apropos. ainst her husband, just as it cer- ber her father, § innocent as she was, actually know about "these far-awa ed playing off Tanaka Cousins? She could with a smile. 10 dealers?’ he asked anese letters were printed on on® ] mildew. You cannot k She likes to He en my sofa, and = in thems, it ke * “ner parents’ race than during the first weeks of her sojourn in her na- " reme could re Except for Reggie orsyth’s exotic cicarettes, and do nothing, and listen tive country. She was so uncon- have lived peaceably E 8; ane ; ° scoursed about t#inly amused her to watch the jeal- Breat brown shining eyes, and a shrubbery there is nothing Japanese yo my playing tunes about her’ side and English on the ot) Bites or te sotcucnstic that "ane (ar*ived Psceatiy tp Rurypei, nd On the way he had dlsooursed about (SiSiy smuved Der to watch the jain Great news, ISIE, wer, nd o SArabeT ee ed al iy playing tanea about Ber i. liked to play at imitating native life, gaded w pathetic charm to her person- Only visines must kaow their way cee: It gave her a pleasant sense of SUMPtion which k im, and a ‘fhe lawna were Jaldiout aa a minia- yin tend. «“1P it were anybody elre pomething utterly peculiar and ub- glity, But here in Japan, where hee qiat ‘sitors must know thevice wy Power to sce her big husband look tenderness of voice « anner quite ture goif links, the thick tnasées of 1 pnould pay you were in love with s. ITO sunt. Meals in Japanese eating- tween the handful of whites and the SOU oF nmiuat have the LARA ant ? * apart from unythix 1 ever ex. Japanese shrubs forming deadly bunk- ¢nis girl.’ aees aroused her immensely. The myriads of yellow men stretches a No o0,oxperienced guide who was au fa : ke perienced since. This soon came to ers, and Reggie was trying sot “1am still the same, Geoffrey; al- squatting on bare floors, the exag- Man'y Land, serrated und desolate, {22 Wh? knew the erates eld do p0u think Tanaka an end. After that she had known mashle shots when one of the ways in love—and never. Attorney of Law é Bermied obelsance of the walting- marked with bloody fights, with sus. 210 Pronounced this phrase “open ses; 187 he asked any |, only the conscientiously chilly care Tokio taxicabs, carrying Geoffr A rickshaw was waiting to take g girls, the queer food, the clumsy use piciony and treacheri: aake'n pou. ult At 1 Wan fos unt tai thet Oh, about eighteen or nineteen,” of the Muratas. They had told her Harrington taside it, came Geottrey back to the hotel. Under the “3 cal e © chop-sticks, the numbness of her tion as the wife of a white man and M/Sht that its meaning dawned upon answered she was not yet used that her mother had diced when she round a corner of the drive, as though saffron light of an uncanny sur i ein a feet after being sat upon for half Geoffrey's position as the husband of Ooty ty the deceptiveness of Japanese ap- was born, und that her father was so it were feeling Its Way for Its destina- which barred the western heavens Ito, that's the lawyer fellow, wha an hour, all would set her off in peals a yellow wife were entirely different. On his own Initiative be had ap- 2 e unhappy ‘that he had left Japan for. tion among such a cluster of houses. with three broad streaks of orange Pays the dividends. Did you see him? of unchecked laughter, so as to a8- And then the crowd of half-caste Petred next mornings to conduct the doesn " eve Geoffrey was alone and inky-bluo like a gypsy girl's ker- , “Oh. no, J was too y Buk ba ‘ enough mistook her for one of them~ thinks of tie progeny of mixed races, Whiel them naaraiind ae an ; REPRE PENT ReEet Na SH nee eae passedd Dini on the staine."” ) selves. Thet bitter werd “half-caste as a « y pen tor that day only, a 1 t wd Ieface 5 A ail nervous clit mono We dniperial } ey i uly tala of the ; Once, with the ald of the girls of tant echo of sensations Geof. Br vil y black’ cluils I 10. a ° F t yu: ' mul of Tokyo. the 7 id) Renteman,, who Nad) pean talc tho hotel, she arrayed herself in the fyey had n a ant MAtiapA tia ca Auenc wi nt \ Heal tcl 1 ' ; rane faites } UEKI she confines: Lok nh Tanaka. T e suide was song garments of a Japanese lady of pori- yandeome children of Hurasin wonders tot en, het ed Geo jude: I ai stole end of re . é iad RBG rs . MAA Kile hice la ihn cari for and qu tioned but he knew Gon, with her hair dressed in th> yre's latest and most halsheart huv'e clothes aud arranged them w rein ga Ce aL , hat: Braud A TuATEa eee tins ramble MMS THe gentleman 1 teem j ebiny black helmet-shape, and her periment, who oe they the care of a trained valet. -In the « ¢ Wokye through whom t TSE AOE T re Waclabaniale ie ch chore dian 0,009 tivins NM" opped him to ask him he ‘waist encased in the broad, tight ob! jovt in the third generation, But he evening, when they returned to the Kiser eplied b « ere paid, and that ef “my cousin tions, and that thay had been honor: beings the oF sesh, which afier all nag uo wore had heard the tone of sco which bots] and Agako cumplained of palue Geclisey Wei Uul Oe look coy Samy Pujinaml Gentare, ALIy Lut; @us eran eo the eteain bad ©The Falnae of (he Mihade—e tiiaag «Te Be Gentine Tevitersom, ' ‘ 4 ' o-2 * anne wy :