The Washington times., 1902-09-21

feet-litt1e feet. light as marigoId fiow-
ers, that could lie in the palm Of .
mans one hand.
| Much that Is written about Oriental
passion and impulsiveness' is exagger.
ated and compiled at second hand, but
little of it is true, and when an Eng
lishman 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 il
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. Bise-
sa drew herself up and said simply:
Il do not. know only .his-it is not
good that ] should have made you dear
er than my own heart to me, Sahib. You
are an Englishman; am only a black
girf'-she was fairer than bargold in
the mint-"and the widow of a black
mar
Then she sobbed and said:
But on my soul and my mothers
soul, l love you. There shall no harm
come to you, whatever happens to me-"
Trejaro argued with the child and
reasonably disturbed. Nothing would
satisfy her save that all relations be-
tween them should end He was to go
away at once. And he went. AS he
dropped out at the window she kissed
his forehead twice, and he walked hcme
wondering.
A week and then three weeks passed
without 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
answered. He was not disappointed.
There was young moon, and one
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 cut
her arms into the moonlight Both
hands had been cut off at the wrists,
eAAN SaS otdAuPo were NEARLY ucdicu
Then, as Bisesa bowed her head be-
tween her arms and sobbed, some one
in the room grunted like wild beast,
and something sharp-knife, sword. or
spear-thrust at Trejago in his boorka-
The stroke missed his body, but cut into
one OF the muscles of the groin. AID he
limped slightly from the wound for
the rest of his days.
The grating went into it's place. There
was no sign whatever from inside the
house-nothing but the moonlit strip
on the high wall. and .he blackness Ct
Amir Mathis Gully behind.
What. the tragedy was-whether Bise-
sa had, in a fit of causeless despair,
told everything. OF 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.
horrible had happened. and
the thought of what it must have been
comes upon Trejago in the night now
and again. and keeps him company till
the morning. One special feature of the
case is that he does not know where
lies the front OF Durga Charan's house.
1t may open onto courtyard common
to two or more houses, or it may lie
behind any one OF the gates OF Jitha
Megji's bustee. Trejago cannot tell.
He cannot set 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. J
But TreJago pays his calls regularly,
and is reckoned very decent sort Of
man.
There is nothing peculiar about him,
except slight stiffness, caused by Q
riding strain, in the right leg.