Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1903-10-21
observation-disclosures
! @ SAYA SAN !
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RICHARD GREENLEY !
Copyright. 1909, BY Z. @. Mcclure Y

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in the piled up masses OF her jet black
hair. Happy o Saya San, for the
American lord had hidden her remain
ruler of the small domain that he had
taken over from young Burroughs.
| There had been some anxious moments
| for O Saya San before her fate was de-
cided; then young Burroughs went his
| way after the manner of the English
| driftwood that goes up and down the
China seas and Welladayl o Saya
San had sorrowed, but that was yes
| terday, and today was today, and. like
a wise little woman, she rocked to and
| fro on her heels. clad in her best kimo-
no and swaying the huge fan to and
fro. From under her long lashes her
| bright eyes took stock of the six feet
of sinuous flesh and blood that swayed
and swung In the hammock as the
| breeze flung down a wonderful snow
| of pink and white from the cherry
| boaghs.
Totally obllvious of her scrutiny,
Royal lay and looked out over the
eternal blue of the bay. the straw
| roofs and gilded k!osks of Yeddo town.
cursing the gods with mighty curses
| for the sake of things existent and
most of all for the sake of things that
were-exactly like scene on a Japa-
nese fan. He had a dim. elusive mem
CRY of prim old parlor in the far
Kentucky valley. where had hung
| silken banner covered with strange
| flights of bird and beast and tea
house. with an impossible geisha
! strumming upon some spurious form
of guitar. 1t had been brought from
somewhere oversee. and his mother
had valued it highly. But there came
day when he could stand the shipper
| ing face no longer, and. with infinite
| trouble, he had mounted chair and
| table until he tore II down and rended
| the silk into ribbons. and then there
| was an afterward. Before him lay the
same blue of bay and sky and the I'M
| possible little tea house. and, worst of
| all, he could not stamp out this pic
ture. He turned to shut 1t from his
aching eyes and beheld o Saya San
peeping at him around her fan. There
would be an afterward to this picture
also. and again he cursed the god of
folly and almost cursed the memory of
Dorothy's face framed in the gold of
the Kentucky sunset
He had not deserved it, She had
listened all too readily to the half lie.
more deadly than the blacklist truth.
| that Matthews had taken care she
should overhead. and he-he had been
| too proud to defend himself
The beat-beat of the Doris" waltz
| came back TO him. He could almost
smell the perfume of her hair and zee
the lovely. laughing face as he had beld
| II close TO his heart that night-see Il
grow cold with scorn as she turned
| away on her fathers arm. There had
been a certain poor satisfaction the
next day when he had forced Mat
| thews, by the virtue of his strong right
arm. to write the letter TO her retract-
| Ing the spoken lie. The savage had
rioted within him as he saw Matthews
| PROSTATE with the mark of his hand
across the abject face. But even that
could not efface the fact that Dorothy
had believed him guilty.
| In his madness he had accepted his
uncle's offer to go out to Yeddo as his
| representative and take charge of his
immense interests there. Shrewd old
| Wallace Royal had a notion of the
| trouble through which the lad was
passing and hurried him into it before
| Royal knew what he was about.
| Royal & Co. were a power in a
small way where the army of coolies
went up and down from the great
warehouses to the sea and the tea
| chests went in constant stream from
the gray fields, gathered in the gray
dawns of orient skies, through the
blare and light of Yeddo mart and out
oversee to busy, practical America. 1t
was a small kingdom. a mighty trust
for the man that was yet a boy, but
Jim Royal would have parted with the
whole of his prospects, would have
| gone forth the veriest beggar, could he
| have undone the mad moment when he
| had returned certain little blue en-
| velope unopened and sent back her let
ters- He had kept her picture; why, he
could not have told; but there it was,
cased in the big silver heart that she
had given him. He never opened it,
but it lay close to his heart. insensate.
| yet pregnant of thousand fancies.
| AS the last long finger of the sun
set touched the gilded railing o Saya
San crept timidly out. Royal looked
| at the little yellow hand with its
! dyed finger tips, that rested upon il
| and drew a long breath. He looked
| at o Saya San. and he thought long
| thoughts as the soft velvet of the
| gray cleaning shut out the gold of
the Asian sky and wrapped him into
| the arms of the old sweet mother, the
witching. wonderful east One by one
the stars woke up and, answering the
| twinkling lights of Yeddo, threw long
| jeweled Banners down the bay. Royal
looked at q Saya San. The small
ivory white face cleaned like lotus
| flower moon male against the dusk