The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1911-01-25

on the sentry box. Haru's heart was
in her throat, but her dark kimono
bIent with the wood and the flash that
showed her both faces blinded his
eyes.
| "See!" said the DOCTOR A mile away
from the low-lying darkness of Hibi.
va Park, a stream of fireworks shot to
the zenith, to explode silently in clus.
tiers of colored balls. "The first rock
ct in honor of the Squadron!"
Tomorrow the admiral has an i'm.
perial audience" said Phil, "and the
superior officers are to be decorated.
"So!" said the other in low, ma.
lignant voice. "And I-who have de-
signed Japan's turrets and cheapened
her arsenal processes may not wear
the Gordon and the Stars of the Rising
SUM" In the darkness smile OF
malice crossed his face. Eve shall see
if she will hold her head so high
then! Whether war follow or not, il
will damn her in the eyes of the
nations! She will not recover hel
prestige in twenty years!"
They passed on down the dark
slope, out of sight and hearing of the
girl crouched in corner of the sent
ry box. At the foot of the hill, Der
sonin said:
1T will take some days longer tt
finish my work, but the ships will
stay for a fortnight. Tomorrow nigh
! will mark the triangle on the roo
of the bungalow, SO that the angle O
the tripod will be exact. There mus
be no bungling. You can go by al
learlier train, SO we shall not be seer
together, and I shall return here il
time for the ball."
There was a fire in Harus bosom as
she went on along the thorn hedges
She had heard every word and she sait
the English sentences over and ove7
to herself to fix them in her mind
What they had been talking of wa:
the secret that lay beneath Ishida's
questions-for an instant she had al
most touched it. A feeling of deer
pride rose in her. Japan was no
sleeping-it watched! And in the patti
of the plotting danger stood her lover
These two men hated Japan!. War
They had used the word. Japan did moi
fear war! Had not that been proven
Her heart swelled But the thing they
were planning was her countrys en-
during humiliation, whether war fol
low or mott" She felt sudden deer
horror. Could such plots be and theil
God-her God now-not blast them
with His thunder? And one of these
men had spoken with her, touched her
kissed her! She struck herself re
peatedly and hard on the lips.
All at once she shivered. Might il
be that in spite of all, such black de
sign could succeed?
The Chapel was brilliantly lighted
and the rose window threw beautiful
tints, like shawls of many-colored
gauze, over the shrubbery. She. en-
tered and slipped into seat near the
door, burning with her thoughts. The
first evening service had brought
curious crowd and the place was
nearly filled. She rose for the sing
ing and knelt for the prayer mechan
ically, her delicate fingers twisting the
little white enamel cross hanging
from it's thin gold chain on the bosom
of her kimono Painful imaginings
were running through her mind. The
lesson was being read; it was from the
Old Testament, the modern, some
what coloquial translation.
This-after, Samson a Sorek Val
ley woman called Delilah did love
Then the Princes of the Philis
tines the woman-to up-came say
ing:
AS for you, by sweet discourse
prevail that where his great power
is or by what means overcoming
to bind and torture him we may
be able.
1t seemed to her suddenly that {
great wind filled all the Chapel ant
that the words sat on it. Slowly hel
face whitened till it was the hue o
death.