Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1902-02-12
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Lost J Continent
By cUTCLIFFE HYNE.
CHAPTER X.-CoNT1NuEp,
Pau y H..pr Bro. o.pyrslt, 1901, ) c,tsns n.

=. CHAPTER HOODWINKED.
Let my hand clench onhers. ''Take
me to husband then, and I will be
good man to you. But, as lam hidden
speak to Phoremce the woman now,
and not to the empress, offer her
fair warning that will be no puppet."
II She looked at me sidelong. II have
been master so long that I think it
will come as enjoyment to be mastered
sometimes. No, Deucalion, promise
that-you shall be no puppet. In
deed, it would take a lusty lung to
do the piping if you were to dance
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
pacified. Phorenice, you and I will
throw ourselves brain and soul into
the government, and we will make
Atlantis rise as 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
may be. I have had little enough
speech willis women all these busy
years"
1--WE were pair, then, when you
handed, though I 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, also havenot learned
what this love may be from my own
personal feelings. But, sir, think
that you will teach me soon, if you go
on with your coldness."
''From what I have seen, love is for
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Tightly emotions"
'"Then / 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 home for sheer
passion. All! How could revel in it!
How I could respond if he. caught my
whim!" She laughed. ''But should
lead him a sad life of it if my liking
were not so strong as his"
1--WE are as we are made, and we
cannot change our inwards which
move u.s."
She looked at me with a sullen
glance. IF I do not change yours,
my Deucalion, there win be more trou-
BILE 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"
believe she would have had me fon-
die 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
for privacy at any time. But for the
life of me could not do it. The gods
know 1 was earnest enough about my
task, and they know also how it re-
PEELED me. But was 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
it, would have fallen in with her
mood. But where any of those shall
low, bedizened triflers about the court
would have been glibly in his element,
1 stuck for lack of a dozen words.
But here, by lucky chance for me,
an incident occurred which saved me
from further batting. The rebels out
side the walls were conducting their
days attack with vigor and some in
teligence. More than once during
our procession the lighter missiles
from, their war engines had sang up
through the air and split against a
building, and thrown splinters which
wounded those which thronged the
streets. Still there had been nothing
to rutfie the nerves of anyone at all
used to the haps of warfare, or in
any way to hinder our courtship. But
presently, it seems, they stopped
hurting stones from their war EN-
gines, and took to loading them with
carcasses of wood lined with the
throwing fire. ~ 49, b.: $3.50 -
Now against stone buildings these
did little harm, save only that they
scorched horribly any poor wretch
that was within splash of them when
they burst; but when they fell upon
the rude wooden booths and rush
shelters of the poorer folk, they set
them ablaze instantly. There was
no putting out these fires. -.
These things also would have given
to either Phorenice or myself little
enough of concern, as they are the
trivial and common incidents Of
every siege; but the mammoth on
which we rode had not been SO prop
erly schooled. When the first blue
Whit of smoke came to us down the
windings of the street, the huge red
beast hoisted its trunk, and began to
sway its head uneasily. When the
smoke drifts grew more dense, and
here and there tongue of j fame
showed pale beneath the sunshine, it
stopped abruptly and began to
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Z The guards who led it tugged man
fully at the chains which hung from
the jagged metal collar round Its
neck. so that the spikes ran deep