Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1902-03-12

| pretty skin with a sudden leprosy?"
The girl bowed her shoulders and
went away cowed, and Phorenice
turned to me. my lord" she said,
L am like young bird III the nest
that has suddenly found it's wings.
Wings have SO many uses that I am
| curious to try them ALL
May each new fight they take be
for the good of Atlantis
oh" she said, with an eye-flash, 81
know what you have most at heart.
But we will go back to the pyramid
and talk. this out at more leisure. /
pray you now, my lord, conduct me
back to my riding BEAST
1t appeared then that I was to be
condoned for not offering her wor-
ship, and so putting public question on
her dedication. 1t appeared also that
1lga's interference was looked upon
as untimely, and, though / could not
understand the exact reasons for
either of these things, accepted the nj
as they were, seeing that they for.
warded the scheme that Zaemon had
hidden me to carry out.
So when the empress lent me hel
were, though so skillful to grasp the
weapons of war; took them grave.
ly, and led her out of the great cir.
Gle, which she had polluted with her
trickeries. l had expected to see our
Lord the Sun take vengeance on the
proclamation while it was still in act:
but none had come, and 1 knew that
he would choose his own good tins
for retribution and appoint what in.
strument he thought best, without
my raising a puny arm to guard his
mighty honor.
So l led this lovely, sinful woman
back to the huge red mammoth which
stood there tamely in waiting, and the
smell of the sacrifice came after us
as we walked. She mounted the stair
to the golden castle on the shaggy
beasts back, and bade me mount also
and take seat beside her. But the
place of the fan-girl behind her was
empty, and what we said as we rode
back through the streets there was
none to overhear.
She was eager to know what had
befalien me after the attack on the
gate, and I told the tale, laying stress
on the worthiness of Nais, and utter,
ing an opinion that with care the girl
might be won back to allegiance again
Only the commands that Zaemon laid
upon me, when he and 1 spoke to.
gether in the sacred tongue, did ]
withhold, as it is not lawful to repeat
these matters save only in the high
council of the priests itself as they
sit before the Ark of Mysteries.
You seem to have an unusual kind
illness for this rebel Nais,' said
Phorenice.
she showed herself to me as more
clever and thoughtful than the com
mon herd"
Aye" she answered, with sigh
that L think was real enough in it's
way, IAN empress loses much that
meaner woman gets as her common
DUE
I'm what particularly
"She misses the honest wooinp of her
equals"
IF you set up for a goddess"
I said.
"Pah! I wish to be no goddess to
you, Deucalion. That was for Nthe
common people; it gives me more pow.
er with them; it helps my schemes.
All you seven higher priests know
that trick of calling down the fire, and
1t pleases me to fitch it. Can you not
be generous, and admit that woman
may be as clever in finding out these
natural laws as your musty elder
priests?"
Remains that you are empress"
Nor empress either. Just think
that there is woman seated beside
you on this cushion, Deucalion. and
look upon her, and say what words
come first to your Lips. Have done
with ceremonies, and have done with
statecraft. Do you wish to wait on
as you are till all your manhood with
ers? 1t is well not to hurry unduly
in these matters; am with YOU there.
Yet who but fool watches a fruit
grow ripe, and then leaves it till it is
past its primer
L looked on her glorious beauty, but
as l live it left me cold. But / re-
membered the command that had been
laid upon me, and forced a smile. ST
may have been fastidious," said, ..but
l do not regret waiting this long,
Nor l. But 1 have played my life
as maid time enough. am wom-
an, ripe and full-blooded, and the day
has come when 1 should be more than
what I have BEEN"