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one throwing the name away, and then.
kneeliug before Trejago. asked him, ex.
actly az an English woman would do/
If he weresure he loved her. Treja&o
swore that he loved her more than 94ny
one else in the world, which was true.
After month of this folly the exi-
gencies of his other life compelled Tre-
jago to be especially attentive TO lady
of his acquaintance. The News flew in
the usual mysterious fashion from
mouth to mouth till BiYesa's duenna
heard Of it and told Bisg1sa. The child
was so troubled that she did the house
hold work eyilly any was beaten by
Durga Charan's wif6 in consequence.
A week later BIsesa taxed Trejago
with the flirtati9n. She understood no
gradations and /spoke openly. Trejago
laug' ed, and Bisesa stamped her little
feet-littlc fgct, light as marigold flow
ers, that g3uld lie in the palm Of
mans oDh haDd.
MUCH that is written about "oriental
passion and impulsiveness" is exagger-
ated/and compiled at secondhand, but
a bftle of ii is true, and when an Eng
| lNhman finds that little it is quite as
| startling as any passion in his own
proper life Bisesa ragged and stormed
and finally threatened to kill herself If
Trejago did not at once drop the alien
memsahib who had come between them.
Trejago tried to explain and to show
her that she did not understand these
! things from western standpoint. BIZ
sesa drew herself up and said simply:
81 do not | know only this-it is
not good that | should have made you
dcarer than my own heart to me, sahib
You are an Englishman. | am only q
black girl '-sho was fairer than bar
gold in the mint land the widow Of
black man "
Then she sObbed and said; "But, on
my soul and my mothers soul, love
you. There shall no harm come to you
whatever happens to me.
Trejago argued witt. the child and
tried to soothe her, but she seemed
quite unreasOnably disturbed. Nothing
would satisfy her save that all relations
between them should end. He was to
go away at once And he went. AS he
dropped out at tho window she kissed
his forehead twice, and he walked homo
wondering
A week, and then three weeks, passed
without a sign from Bisesa. Trejago,
thinking that the rupture had lasted
quite long enough, went down to Amir
Maths gully for the fifth time in the
three weeks, hoping that his rap at the
sill of the shifting grating would be an
swered He was not disappointed.
There was young moon, and ono
stream of light fell down into Amir
Maths gully and struck the grating,
which was drawn away as he knocked.
From the black dark Bisesa held out
her arms into the moonlight. Both
hands had been cut off at the wrists,
and the stumps were nearly healed.
Then, as Bisesa bowed her head be.
tween her arms and sobbed, some one In
the room grunted like wild beast, and
something sharp sword or spear
thrust at Trejago in his boorka. The
stroke missed his body, but cut into one
Of the muscles of the groin, and he
limped slightly from the wound for the
rest of his days.
The grating went into its place.
There was no sign whatever from in.
side the house, nothing but the moon.
light strip on the high wall and the
blackncss of Amir Nath' gully behind.
The next thing Trejago remembers,
after raging and shouting like mad.
man between those pitiless walls, ID
that he found himself near the river al
the dawn was breaking, threw away
his bnorka and went home bareheaded.
What the tragedy was--whethar Bi-
sesa had in n fit Of Cause,ess despair told
everything or the intrigue had been
discovered and she tortured to tell,
whether Durga Charan knew his name
and what became of Bisesa-Trejago
does not know to this day. Something
horrible had happened and the thought
Of what it must have been comes upon
TrejagO in tho night now and again
and keops him company till the morn.
Ing. One special feature Of the case IL
that he does not know where lies the
front of Durga Charan' house. 1t may
open on to courtyard common to two
or more houses or it may lie behind
any one Of the gates o. Jitha Megji'f
bustee. Trejago cannot tell. He cannot
get Bisesa-poor little Bisesa-back
again. He has lost her In the city
where each mans house is as guarded
and as unknowable as the grave, and
the grating that opens into Amir Maths
gully has been walled up
But Trejago pays his calls regularly
and is reckoned a very decent sort OF
man.
There is nothing peculiar about him,
except eight stiffness. causnd by @
riding strain, In the right leg.
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