The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1910-12-28

that he was answering IN monoSyla
bles or with silence.
They were in the midst Of densely
hacked crowd where a native theatel
was pouring it's audience into the
street. They had fallen behind the
rest, and there about them only kl
mono'd shoulders and lowered, blue
black head dresses. He made way
for her ruggedly toward a pallne
where there was little space. Above
it was hung a poster of a japanese
actress.
THAT is the famous Sada Gozen,'
he told her. "She has just returned
from season in Paris and New YORK
and Tokyo is quite wild about her"
AS he spoke numbers thrust him
against her and the touch brought IN
stantly to him that moment IN the
garden when he had held her IN MS
arms to lift her to the arbor Ledge
The picture of her that evening III the
pagoda was stamped on his heart: the
sweet, moon lighted profile, the curling
brown hair, the faint perfume OF hel
gown that mingled with the Wlstana
II came before him there in the hustle
and press with sudden swift sadness
He knew that it would be always with
him to remember.
A Japanese couple, fastening to
their rick'sha, caromed against them
and. with an effort, he tried to turn 1t
to smile.
"Some say it's difficult for for
eigner to come into intimate contact
with the Japanese" he said. y on
have already pierced that illusion. One
is always finding out that he has been
mistaken in people"
Her quivering feelings gasped at a
fancied innuendo. ut doesn't take
long, then you think?" Her tone held
a dangerous lure, but he did not per-
ceive it.
mot where you are concerned, ap-
parently," he answered lightly.
She turned her head swiftly toward
him and her eyes flashed. Where
am concerned" she repeated fiercely,
and in his establishment he almost
wrecked the paling. "Oh, hate double
meaning! Why not say it? DO you
sunnose 7 don't think what you are
thinking?"
'I?" he said in bewilderment. What
am thinking"
You mean you have found you are
mistaken in me! You have no right
no earthly right, to draw conclusions"
"Ah!" he said, with sharp breath.
81 had no such meaning. You can't
imagine"
Don't say you didn't" she inter
rupted. "That only makes it worse!"
She scarcely understood her own re-
and hot consciousness that
her behavior was quite childish and
mixed itself with her
anger
what have l said?" he exclaimed,
in contrition and distress. Il wouldn't
hurt you for a million worlds! What
ever it was, ought to do hara hri for
it! II will perform the operation
whenever you say!"
A ridiculous desire to cry had siezed
her-why, she could not have told
and she would rather have died than
have him see her do SO. IF you will go
ahead" she said TREMENDOUSLY, land
make a path for me, l think we can
get through now"
He turned instantly and his broad
shoulders parted the crowd in haste
that was thought un-,Iapanese. But
she did not follow him. Instead, she
drew back, and thinking only to hide
momentarily her hurt and her pride,
slipped through narrow gateway.
She found herself in a crowded cor
ridor of the emptying playhouse. The
mass of Japanese faces confused her.
A door opened at another angle and
she passed through it hastily into the
open air. The street she was now in
was narrow, and she followed It, ex-
pecting it to turn into the larger thor
oughfare. 1t did so presently, and at
it's corner she paused till the burning
had LETT her eyes, and her breath came
evenly. Then she walked back toward
the theatre, feeling an impatient ir.
ritation at her behavior.
Presently, however, she stopped
puzzled. The theater was not there.
The street, too, had not the character
of the one in which she had left Daunt
She must have taken the wrong turn.
She walked rapidly in the opposite
until another street crossed
at right angles. This she tried with
no better result. In the maze of Ian
tern lighted vistas, she was completely
lost.
Just before her, at the side OF the
way, stood a small temple with a re-
stone fox at it's entrance. 1t
made her think suddenly of the riding