Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1912-08-22


lions. the date-psims. black and no
uonlsss against the translucent bloe
OF the sky: the amethysune prisms OF
tho Pyramids. and the deepening gold
OF the, deserts brim. he loved the
Orient. always SO new. always 80
strange vet ever 80 old and familiar
A carriage stopped IN front. and bis
gaze naturally shifted. There Is cease
less attraction In specializing about /
newcomers in hotel. what they are. |
what they do. where they come from. |
| and where they are going. A hno |
/ elderly man OF atty got out. In thu
square set OF his shoulders. the How
ing white mustache and imperial.
there was a suggestion OF militarism.
| He was Immediately followed by
| Young woman OF twenty. certainly not
over that age George sighed visit
fully. lie envied those polo-players
and Eentlsman-riders and bridce-eN-
perts Who we're stopping az the hotel
IL wouldn't b. an hour after dinner
before some one Of them found out Nho
she was and spoke 90 her in that easy
STYLE which he concluded must be- a
J xift rather than AL accomplishment
b You mustn't suppose for minute that
George wasn't eell born and wellbred.
Einply because his name was Jones.
Many = FitzHugh Maurice or Hugh
j Fitz-Maurice might have been hat'
no natter He knew insuncuvely,
Z then. what elegance was when be saw
J. ~. and this girl Was elegant. in dress
j IN movement. lie rather liked tho
4 palior OF her skin. which limited that
7. sha wasn't one OF those athletic girls
u who bounced I'm and out OF the din
q ing-room. talking loudly and smoking
10 cigarettes and playing bridge FOR six
- penny points. She was tall. He was
e sure that her syes were on the leve
- with his own. The grey veil iha
q drooped from the rim OF her simpl
n LeKhorn hat 20 the tip OF her nose oh
IL scured her eyes. 30 he could not know
~ that they were larSe and brown an
IN incidentally sad They spoke not q
DO a WEAKNESS OF travel. but OF a wear
q. ness OF the world. more precisely, {
70 the people who Inhabited H.
30 She and her companion passed 0
IN into the hotel. and II Georges sys
's' veered again toward the desert oy'
nj which the steAlthy puppies OF nigl
NJ were creeping. the impulse was n
chAnical: be saw nothing. In trut
70 he was desperately lonesome, and
II knew, moreover. that he had no bus
IN ness 10 be. He was young; he cou
IN at a pinch tell q Joke as well as q
next man; and II Do had never a.
y. what be called an adventure. he b
..o seen many strange and WOnderi
tnS things and could describe them VI
ins that mental afterEiow which stiI D
inN gers over the sunset OF our hrst :
pressiOns IN poetry. But there "
always that hydrA-headed monster.
l', ever getting about bis feet. numb
his voice. paralyEiug his hands. a
never he Topped on q head that
other did not instantly grow In
place. Even the sword OF Perse
could not have saved him. since {
has TO get away from an oOtsct
W order 10 cut II down.
Had he really ever tried 70 oy
m. come this MONASTERY Had he not "
ed for the propitious moment (Nh
you and l know never comes)
throw OF this species from Had
uroS Il IL all very well. when you are
and dried I'D. 20 turn 20 worries
= metals and precious stones; but "
- q fellows youngl You can't Sd
hands with Ga ivory replica az the
noS &ahAl, ner exchange plessansTses '
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