Arizona republican., 1905-09-03

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 returned them to their cage. l noticed the strange, wintry pallor of the sun l light and at the same moment a Sul- | len gray cloud was rent apart and | through the opening, from immeasur- | able white distance beyond, there | burst a blast of wind of such velocity | and power as made the heart leap with mingled joy and terror; while from the l wide fireplace the chimney poured such a tempest of shrill, whistling | shrieI1s and moans as made one com 1 prehend the still living faith in the | Banshee; and while the house yet | uuivered from the blast my lips inVol- untarily pronounced the words:
 1 Wherever in your sightless sub stances.
 You wait on Natures mischief
 "Sightless substances"-yes, that awful wind had torn through the cloud just as the circus rider leaps through the paper hoop. "Sightless sub stances" I muttered again, while my whole soul seemed crying out to know who were the riders of those mighty | steeds of the upper air. Whence came | they? Where went they? Did they
 ride in pride and triumph or were they scOurged forth to their mad flight by thongs of punishment, of Denance,
 of remorse? I smiled at the absurdity | oI my own thoughts, and took to read
 ing, ill 1 found it was time to dress for dinner. I rose and trailed "cross
 the room to the dressing table. Lean
 ing against it, slowly united the rib
 Ion. loosely l1nCtted about r1y waist,
 and lifting my lids, I lOoked-straight
 into a Woman's yes.
 ] felt no surprise; knew no thrill nf
 recognition at the Iirst-I saw e IL
 those eyes; was conscious only of the troublesome necessity of finding word
 to dc scribe their color. They were not
 lovely eyes-nOt even pretty, they
 were small and the lids were very thin
 and drew tightly over the eyeball. The
 brows and lashes were scanty and of
 a sandy color that had been artidcially
 and very clumsily darkened. But the
 eyes that steadily looked at me were
 clear with the color and the astonish- ing transparent clarity of the topaz;
 the golden eyes of q young hound And
 even as I noted the broad, yelvety blackness of the pupils, they contract
 ed. hardened, and just as a clear
 stream rifles from the muddy bottom.
 the brilliant topaz dulled. cloude'', ! while ugly little dots of reddish brown freckled all the iris. Hard they were, and suspicious in expression: and l was just concluding that probably they D would be called hazel, when with i'm ! ] measurable swiftness they blazed with = terrifying power The topaz lights re- ! turned; the fiecks and specks drew 7 close together, until, presently, they U formed a narrow rim of tawny, reddish Y orange. Round. fierce, intent. they II stared at me. until shrinking back, U murmured: But they are not human!
 and so realized that from this woman's 7' face there gleamed the golden, red
 trimmed eyes of a great hawk; instinct with lust to kill. As l stared, there o came to me the conviction, that be
 yond the mere desire to wreak ven z geance or shed blood, there was vest " ed in this woman an unquestioneC ,' power that made her glance terrible. 2 My knees qUaked; fear ran chil ' along each separate nerve, caught ev = en at the very stomach's pit in an az ,, ony of fright For one felt a sick cer ' tainty that neither church nor lav - could stay her will; that even tn .t sanctuary would be ignored by thi . woman with the hawk eyes; this wo - man who persOnifed power run mad 1 and who must be
 u l tore my gaze free for one moment 1 that I might glance swiftly at tn N temples from much crisping am i elaborate up-curling. to the line of it - augmentaung with artificial coils an
 braids and curls, into a false, towering
 mass well suited for the display O !, jeweled buckle. comb and pin; of loop - ed necklaces and here and there 'u precious caring. hooked and dangling ,e The lofty brow, the yellowing. dr
 skin, from which all youthful colorin - had been drained; the aristOcrati - nose. across whose high and haught bridge the skin so tightly drew as [ leave a spot of bloOdless, waXen white II C
 sharpening chin. now thrust upwar | from the monstrous double ruff; tn ! steel-colOred velvet gown, heavy wit bullion broideries, opening over a vic \ let satin, great hooped petticOat, whil , \ at her side, with rich lace, blackburn | ed cuff hung one unglOved hand, c | such unprecedented beauty of texture : form and tint, as made identifcauo final and complete. This was she wh, brilliant, tickle. false, had ruled a ma tion greatly. but herself, not at al | Mightiest of queens, most incense r quent of women; great Elizabeth ( | 1 Englandi
 Dead in rage, remorse and sorrow | nearly three hundred years ago-yt | there that day in seeming flesh an | anger. that blazed from her hawk eye ! quivered in the long, thin nOstril an shaped itself in three dread words
 soundless words, but so plainly form ed upon her writhing lips, a chil | might have read them. Three awfu
 pregnant words: "To the block"
 The round, fierce eyes no longer stal ed at me or I think I should haN
 cried with terror. They looked bt yond me, and two hideOus, r. splotches broke out high upon h'
 cheek. I dropped my eyes, wonderir | vaguely if falling at her feet wou move her to pity of-of some one WI } I was to be her sure quarry. to5
 one desperate step forward, and sa
 through the gray velvet, the purp
 petticoat. the outline of my oe Shrinking with fear, I raised my eye
 4 blast of wind blew with the vel