Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-05-10

Il SocC 10 De IN ECrT Snlp fCT dWhlie- ana AFTER
that what shall be, will De. II IS Allah that
knows"
THAT is the truth responded the Greek.
Allah knows. | SAID ,ust But | VIII
tell YOU what have decided # vor, will listen
- listen
1t is better that vou should rest several
DAYS after all Your weariness and the nan YOU
seek will not rln away. tor he does not know
YOU are near
But he MAY take another woman Baraka
objected. growing earnest at once. Perhaps
he has already. Then there Will te TWO IN
stead of one.
Spiro said Logothet:. with perfect truth
would as soon Kill two one. | an sure. 1or
he is a good servant. 1t will be the same to
him. You call me great man and a king. l
am not q king: tor have no kingdom, though
some kingdoms would like to have as much
ready money as l. But here on the ship am
the master. not only because II IS mine. and
because | choose to command. but because
the men are bound by English law to obey
me: and If they should refuse and overpower
NE. and take my ship where did not wish to
60. the laws Of all nations would give the
right 70 put them al into prison at once for
4 long time Therefore. when ] say, Go to
certain place they take the ship there &C
c"rdlng to their knowledge for they are trained
to that business and can guide the vessel
toward any place IN the world. though they
cannot see land till they reach it. Do you
understand all these things
u,
but l am not bound to obey you, and at
least | can beg YOU to do what ] ask and ]
think YOU will do it
Her Voice grew suddenly soft and almost
tender; for, though she was only Tartar girl,
and very young and slim, she was woman.
Eve had not had long experience of talking
when she explained TO Adam the properties
ot apples.
Logotheti answered her smile and her tone.
:" shall do what you ask of me; but shall
do - sir fhar han Ivy hot
Will be better for you in the end If we had
gone on as we were going, we should have got
To land tonight, but to wretched little town
iron! which we should have had to take night
train, hot and dirty and dusty, all the way to
Paris. That would not help you to rest,
would it"
oh. no wish to sleep again in your
ship,-once. twice, till l cannot sleep any
more. Then you will take me to the place"
That is what you shall do. To that end l
gave orders this afternoon"
You are wise, as well as great Baraka
said.
SHE let her feet slip down TO the deck, and
sat on the side OF the chair toward Logo
theti. looking at her small white tennis shoes,
which had turned golden pink in the evening
reflections, and she thoughtfully settled her
serge skirt over her slim yellow silk ankles,
almost good many European girls would
always do if they did not so often forget it.
She rose at last, and went and looked over
the rail at the violet sea. 1t is not often that
the Atlantic Ocean is in such heavenly tenn
per so near the Bay of Biscay. Logotheti got
out of his chair and came and stood beside her.
= Is this sea always SO still she asked.
She was gazing at the melting colors, from
the dark blue spattered with white foam,
under the yachts side, to the deep violet
beyond and farther TO the wine purple and
the helotrope and the horizon melting up to
the eastern sky.
Logotheti told her that such days came
very rarely, even in summer, and that Allah
had doubtless sent this one for her special
benefit. But she only laughed.
" Allah is great; but he does nothing where
there are English people she observed, and
Logotheti laughed in his turn.
They left the rail and walked slowly for
ward, side by side. without speaking and
Logotheti told himself how utterly happy he
should be if Baraka could turn into Margaret
and be walking with him there; yet some
thing answered him that since she was not by
MS side he not to be pited for the company
Of lovely Tartar girl whose language he could
understand and even speak tolerably and
when the first voice observed rather dryly
that Margaret would surely think that he
ought to feel very miserable, the second voice
told him to take the goods the gods sent him
and be grateful; and this little antiphone OF
Ormazd and AhriInan went on for sometime
till II occurred to HIM to stop the duo by ex-
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