The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-07-10
Ialys Strange Girile.
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Ia not sleep the rest Of the night.
! e Jus that noise which l had heard?
na' w." Rut no one was moving save
er ,s s'a before the compass on deck
va va" Goa. of china in the pantry.
w tbronph the, black l seemed to
gaD .bat strange rustic oozing out on
silence The darkness was but
srork for it. The night was its
III # hinged itself in a spiral of
I inc color. The great night held its
| a aal' before the jewel dazzle of bad
= scr,np. lest that cone Of gathering
'ror whose apex shot upward i'll a
" "" streoked tongue of flame should
aDb me | sprang, and found it was a
'am and went on deck and stamp
ont the dream along the cool caress
,be early morning air, and saw il
40 and trail away and thin and van
4 IN tbe great fresh leap of waters and
mconreless brilliance of the blue.
FCaitbness and / agreed we would
[Iye this mystery, however, or-the
BIZ take us
Tho Christmas on the Mediterranean
a. n bowling success. We sang God
we the Queen" and l added from
|Tbe star Spangled Banner" until l
IT, boarse. The captain decorated our
Fates with holly, from whose branches
II old lady with the frisette plucked a
Ice "to adom my hair"-with a smile
the vintage Of eighteen odd that al
Iost inset the sobriety Of everybody.
he dance on deck went into the small
|urs Ny Lady Jemappes had never
|oked SO beautiful, l thought. She
|emed to have forgotten her weird
|orm Of the dark night. She was all a
|itcbery Of blue gauzes and foamy laces.
round her waist, as Caithness had
Iopbesied, the inevitable belt. 1t was
b locked. Had she forgotten?
| withdrew into the shadow of the
Ening stretched above the deck and
'atched her. Caithness was claiming
l. waltzes, and she foated away on
( arm. Her motions were graceful as
Greek. The belt slipped in long, sup
le symmetry, wreathing itself to her
rcling grace. Her brilliant gauzes
'emed to breathe glances. Across the
ight and across its radiant dream on
hich the moonlight fulled her strange
les reached. AS the whorl of the dance
fought her near me l again noticed
lose eyes. They were dilating in power
the deepening waltz-whorls of mel
" which the band tossed off. They
ere rhythmic to the circling beat of
usic The light within them arose in
,ils Of ascending brilliance. / held my
cath as the belt slipped by me, a thin
near Of silver moonlight.
When held her at last, my prisoner
music, and moved away with her
cath upon my lips and the fragrance
the pomegranate blossoms gathered
Gibraltar upon her breast, it was
Ily the woman, das ewig weibliche,
ID the dream Of the night was now
rself alone, and the great white rose
moonlight along heaven, starring all
nth with its petals and pulses of love.
"Heavens!" said Caithness to me
out o'clock a. M, as we paced the
ok for few minutes pull at a pipe.
le dance was over, nearly everybody
ne below. The stars were paling,
ok streak Of dawn. was widening off
ere on the horizon line of water
There's no more telling what's in that
1t than in the train of a comet. AS 1
lltzed with the beautiful creature l
I that there was something concealed
tween that blue velvet lining and the
ter stuff. But what? The bones of
grandfather, whose perturbed spirit
will rest on the island of Malta?
) hal What? Hello, there's the Ger
IN professor! Do you know, he wasn't
the dance. Experimenting probably"
The professor drew nearer. Beneath
heavy eyebrows his eyes glowed like
park.
4 have been able to do it," he said,
lash Illuminating his fine features.
have been at it all night. I have
n the interior of the captains locked
: He allowed me to photograph it."
'HaP Caithness and / exclaimed in
same breath and looked at each 9TH
But our eyes me, in a start and an
azement the next moment, for as we
ned to shake our congratulations in
the fellows hand my foot knocked
against something in the half dark
the ,t deck. 1t was my lady's strange
ole' A waltz had shaken it from her
list.
believe in one moment my whole
n was formulated in my brain.
picked up the girdle and gave CATH
: an immense look. Neither Of rs
Ike.
1 nave an interesting thing here" I
U C0Olly. knOxvinu that tho Garrnau