The Eureka sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1902-current, 1914-05-30

your disposal. everything Dut my Time
and this is not mine, but my coun-
try's."
Lindner thanked him and withdrew
with n firmer step and better appear
ance than when he had entered.
Her doctor ordered Teri to the coun-
try for absolute rest and quiet for at
least a month. He forbade the police
to question her until she had fully re-
covered.
Knowing that she had 10 reason to
be reluctant in telling her story the
district attorney kept only a formal
watch on her. Indeed, he was so com
pletely convinced OF Hironari's guilt
that he considered her evidence-what-
ever 1t might be-as only Of secondary
Importance. But as we know there
was one vitality interested actor in the
sinister drama that revolved around
the boy In prison who did not share
the view Of the prosecutor. He was
Joshikawa. He remembered seeing
Teri leave the house in company with
Illona on the afternoon of the murder,
and he saw that it was of vital impor-
lance that the police be Kept In igno-
rance Of Illona's frequent visits to To-
korama, a fact they were certain to
discover II Teri should be examined.
As long as the girl was put of town he
felt perfectly safe, and he finally be-
gan to believe that the trial would be
held before she returned.
But the watchfulness Of the most
careful Is sometimes in vain, and Teri
returned to New York, called on Toxic
ramo several times and grew to be
very friendly with him in the mutual
sorrow, and neither Joshikawa nor the
police were any wiser. The former did
not learn Of 1t until he met the girl
leaving Tokoramo's house n night
after a short call.
There could be no doubt that the
young Japanese was rapidly dying at
his post, and even Teri could see 1t.
She sympathized with him as the
sweetheart Of her dead friend and sup
posed rightly that her death and the
| terrific strain of his work under the
circumstances were rapidly killing
him.
She came late one night chiefly for
| the purpose Of trying to make him go
to bed. She knew that she would find
him at his desk, and he looked up,
with a wan smile, when she entered
and gave her u friendly greeting. She
returned it in an absentminded way
| and watched him as he bent to his toll
again. Some minutes passed in silence,
and then she approached the desk.
''That is surely enough for today,
Tokoramo," she said in a gentle voice
of command. There are few women
who do not find a deep and sincere
satisfaction in half nursing, half boss
ing a man who either will not or does
not know how to take care of himself.
And in the bottom of his weary, few
cred brain Tokoramo was for the first
time grateful to the powers that be for
implanting this lust of mothering in
the heart Of m
But he shook his head weakly and
his voice when he replied was so
changed that it frightened the girl.
There is SO little time, my child,
and so much to do" Yet he put down
his brush and sank back in his chair,
his eyes reeling before the lids closed
down on them and his breath coming
in long quivering signs.
"Tokoramo, you are ill again. ex-
claimed the girl in the ann of one
making a criminal charge. You are
worse tonight than l have ever seer
you"
He waved his hand languidly and
tried to smile.
at is nothing-nothing," he murmur-
ed.
"You are ill.," insisted the girl.
'Shan't l call up DR.. Omayi? Here."
She ran into the bedroom and came
out with a bottle of medicine which
he had pointed out to her with u laugh
as a stimulant DR.. Omayi had given
him. The bottle was full. She read
the directions, which were in English,
mixed a dose in a tumbler Of water,
drink it. He was SO weak that he
could not even protest. Then she
made him get out of his stiff little
work chair-with her %help-and placed
him in a big armchair.
He submitted with a smile that was
half amusement and half gratitude
and wholly. pitifully weary.
II am a Samurai,' he said whimsi-
cally. MY elan would be proud of
me now
Il don't know what you mean" said
Teri, but do know that you are a
very sick man. And you must get we'll.
You are going out to the country, where
l was. A few weeks there and you
will be yourself again.
Tokoramo shook his head YEARLY
and hitched the armchair up to the
desk.
Il have my work to finish" he said.
"Of course you haye.' retorted the