Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-03-19
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Lost Continent
By CUTCLIFFE HYNE.
NPub BY Harper Bros Cor1roht 1901 nv nntelfra Huna
CHAPTER X.-CoNr1NUEp.
Spub by Harper Bros Copyright 1901, by cueffs Hyns


let my hand clench on hers. "Take
he TO husband then, and l will be a
food man to you. But, as am hidden
fpeak to Phorenice the woman now.
and not to the empress, l offer her
fair warning that / will be no puppet.' -
She looked at me sidelong. 81 have
been master so long that 1 think it
will come as enjoyment to be mastered
sometimes. No, Deucalion, 1 promise
that-you shall be'no puppet. In
deed, it would take a lusty lung to
against your will"
Then as man and wife we will live
together in the royal pyramid, and we
Will rule this country with all the wit
that it has pleased the high gods to
bestow on us. These miserable diff
ferences shall be swept aside; the reb-
els shall go back to their homes, and
hunt, and fight the beasts in the prov
inces, and the Priests clan shall be
pacitied. Phorenice, you and I will
throw ourselves brain and soul into
the government, and we will make
Atlantis rise as a nation that shall
once more surpass all the world for
peace and prosperity"
Petulantly she drew her hand away
from mine. "Oh, your conditions, and
your Atlantis! You carry crudeness
in these colonial manners of yours,
Deucalion, that pals on one after the
first blunt flavor has worn away. Am
] to DO all the wooing? Is there no
little thrill of love under all your ice %
I'm truth. do not know what love
nay be. ] have had little enough
fpeech with women all these busy
fears"
I'VE were a pair, then, when you
landed, though have heard signs and
prostrations from every man that car
ries beard in all Atlantis. Some of
them tickled my fancy for the day,
but none of them have moved me
deeper. No, l also have not learned
What this love may be from my own
personal feelings. But, sir, 1 think
that you will teach me soon, if YOU go
on with your coldness.' -
From what l have seen. love is for
the poor and the weak, and for those of
Eighty emotions"
Then l would that another woman
were empress, and that i were some
addressed creature of the gutter that
strong man could pick up by force
and carry away to his Eome for sheer
passion. All. How 1 could revel in it!
How / could respond if he caught nv
whim!" She laughed. But l should
lead him a sad life of it if my liking
were not so strong as his"
I'VE are as we are made. and we
cannot change our inwards which
move u.s."
She looked at me with sullen
glance. IF / do not change yours.
my Deucafon, there will be more troll
bic brewed for this poor Atlantis that
you set such store upon. There will
be i'll doings in this coming household
of ours if my. love grows for you, and
yours remains still unborn oos
] believe she would have had me fon-
de her there in the golden castle on
the mammoth's shaggy back, before
the city streets packed with curious
people. She had little enough appetite
Tor privacy at any time. But for the
life of me could not do it. The gods
know | was earnest enough about nv
task, and they know also how it re-
PEELED me. But 1 was a true priest
that day, and had put away all per
Sonal liking to carry out the com
mands which the council had laid upon
me. If had known how to set about