Evening star., 1912-12-01

w ~ his own cigar smoke, the world fa-
\S nous Inland Sea of Japan
QH9 magic dream in pearl and gray; but
the millionaire did not see 1t. For
the first time his life he wadlng out beyond his
depth He knew it, he felt it s to BE sure sure tha Taf
marks life from death But the work before h1In-he
had had anything like in all his ttyodd years
of wrestling with storms" Give it up? The trouble
with that was that his head never built for any
such weakened tenant.
Save for the condolences of whispering at his feet
peace. He smoked on Suddenly approaching
steps broke the silence. The millionaire raised his head
with neither surprise annoyance.
"4d mdftOHd, | have been waiting tor you was the
way he greeted his the only child he had draw
the chair this way, here beside me.
The young obeyed his father without a word.
The boy could have been day four and twenty
but from the way he moved about you would have
that hundred winters had frozen his JOINTS He
was gum and gloomy and decidedly grouchy. The
father pressed electric button. When servant an
swered the summons, the millionaire told him not to
admit anyone to where they were and with that he
faced his
Il am going to give you round eyes" was the
first thing the father said NO am not gong to
with you. Do you divine me?'
The son. sunk in the depth of a rattan steamer chair,
shook his head up and down. He said not a word
II do not like the storm complexion of the affair. l
would rather face King Emma" (the autocrat OF the
Shadow World) "than to hang my eyes on this tange
that holds you possessed would! 1t is mid
night black. Still-well l beckoned you out to the
veranda this day because thought that could-that
l should bare my shoulders and help YOU.
"You Father?" the young mans head came up with
a jerk @You-you bare honorable shoulders tor me!
You, Father"
"Oh, l know! have polished sword against this af
fair of for many and 1t silly; It IS
blind nightly; it stranges reason; it is crime against
the august ghosts of honorable ancestors and august
Heaven 1t is impossible! Still"
Far bit of sail was whitening in the fare
we'll of the homng sun, looking for all the world
like the chastened Venus being born again into the king
dom of unearthy light The millionare's eyes wan
dered to it without seeing it.
His son watched him in breathless silence.
There something utterly in his fathers att
tude toward his affair 1t was this very love affair OF
his that had rung down chilly midnight curtain be-
him and his father for the first time in their lives
He than life to his father the knew that
He felt guilty all the because of the hOpelcSsncSs
of the thing: he might have cried for the full MOON for
all the success there was in sight.
"Yes" went on his father 81 have fought against this
affair bitterly But now" Again his eyes wandered
out to But again he nothing of the gorgeous
Gloria in Excelss that twilight painting the
far-dreaning
He was seeing just one thing and all the time 1t was
when she had told him. that day on her deathbed to
look enderly after their only Taro, when she would
be gone-to deal with him kindly, as the boy the
only memento she was leaving with him.
Il think added the father Il called YOU because
think | do something for you something to help
you.
Help me to forget it all, Father?"
"\O not that. | have seen that | cannot do that. l
mean to help you to get her
A rather brutal way of putting delicate matter. 1t
brutal
Il think vent on Matazo slowly measuring every
spell. Il think can do something with the old Lord
Asaka.
You, Father, of all the in the world! If Lord
Asaka could make his hatred smile like May flower
toward all his other enemies then he would look
upon you the blacklist judgment of the Shadow
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