Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-02-03
BEYOND THE PALE.
By RUDYARD KIPLING.

A man should, whatever happens, keep
TO his own caste, race and breed. Let
the white 90 to the white and the black
10 the black. Then whatever trouble
falls is in the ordinary course of things
neither sudden, alien nor unexpected
This is the story Of man who will
.ully stepped beyond the safe limits Of
decent everyday society and paid for 1t
heavily
He knew too much in the first in.
stance, and he saw too much in the
second. He took too deep an interest in
native life But he will never do so
again.
Deep away in the heart Of the city.
behind Jitha Megji's bustee, lies Amir
Maths gully. which ends in a dead
wall pierced by one grated window At
the head of the gully is big cowbyre,
and the walls on either side Of the gully
are without windows. Neither Suchet
Singh nor Gaur Chand approves Of his
women folk looking into the world. If
Durga Charan had been Of their opin.
ion. he would have been a happier man
to-day, and little Bisesa would have
been able to knead her own bread. Her
room looked out through the grated
window into the narrow dark gully,
where the sun never came and where
the buffaloes wallowed in the blue slime
She was a widow, about 10 years old.
and she prayed the gods day and night
to send her lover, for she did not ap
prove of living alone.
One day the man-Trejago his name
was-came into Amir Maths gully en-
an aimless wandering, and after he had
passed the buffaloes stumbled over big
heap of cattle food.
Then he saw that the gully ended in
a trap and heard little laugh from
behind the grated window II was a
pretty little laugh. and Trejago. know.
ing that for all practical purposes the
old ARABIAN Nights" are good guides.
went forward to the window and whis-
pered that verse of 1.-The Love Song Of
Har Dyal." which begins
Can q man stand upright In the face Of the
naked sun or lover in tho presence of his be
lovedP
IL my feet fail me. o heart Of my heart, am
l to blame, being blinded by the glimpse OF
your beautyp
There came the faint tchinks of a
woman's bracelets from behind the
grating. and a little voice went on with
the song at the fifth verse
Alas, alasi Can the moon tell the Lotus OF hci
love when the gate OF heaven is shut and tn,
clouds gather for the rainsr
| They have taken my beloved and driven hei
} with the pack horses TO the north.
4 HIATT. Na.af has
sat on my heart.
Call to the bowmen to make ready
The voice stopped suddenly, and Ire
jago walked out Of Amir Maths gull!
wondering who in the world could hav
capped 1.-The Love Song of Har Dyal'
so neatly
Next morning. as he was driving 4
J office. an old woman threw packe
into his dogcart In the packet was til
half Of broken glass bangle. one flowe
of the blood red dhak, n pinch Of bhus
or cattle food and IL cardamoms Tina
packet was letter-not clumsy. com
promising letter, but an innocent unin
telligible lovers epistle
Trejago knew far too much abou
these things. MS have said No Eng
lishmnn should be able TO translate OF
ject letters But Trejago spread all til
! trifes on the lid of his office box an
began to puzzle them cut
A broken glass bangle stands FOR
Hindoo widow all India over. becaus
when her husband dies, woman
bracelets are broken on her wrists. Tr,
jago saw the meaning Of the little b
. Of the glass. The flower of the dha
means diversely "desire.' ''come,
write or danger. according to Il
other things with it. One cardamo
means jealousy" but when any art
! Gle is duplicated in an object letter
Z. loses its symbolic meaning and stan'
/ merely for one Of number indicatir
4 time. or. IL incense, curds or saffron
cent also, place. The message ran thel
} "a widow-dhak flower and bhusa.
] at II o'clock" The pinch of bhusa e
1 lightend Trejago. He saw-this kind
Z letter leaves much to instructive know
! edge-that the bhusa referred to 4
big heap Of cattle food over which
, had fallen In Amir Maths gully, al
that the message must come from I
person behind the grating, she being
widow, So the message ran then .
: widow. in the gully in which is the he
of bhusa. desires You to come at
o'clock
So he went that very night at II in
Amir Maths gully, clad in u boorR
which cloaks man as well as wo
an Directly the gongs in the city ma
the hour the little voice behind
grating took mp 1.-The Love Song of d
Dyal' at the verse where the Payth
girl calls upon Har Dyal to return I
song Is really pretty in the vernacul