Clearwater Republican. [volume] (Orofino, Idaho) 1912-1922, 1915-09-24

great-grandmotner hau gGI~ Hsutiy "
the scatfold, exquisitely courteous till
tho last
Il ask your pardon II jostled you IN
the tumbrel," the old comtesse had
said to her companion on the way 70
the guillotine. The springs of the cart
are poor'-and she went up smiling.
In the companionship of the Amer-
can girl, Therese de Ia Maine had
thrown of restraint. If the Marquiss
d'Esclignac had felt Julia's influence. !
Therese de la Maine, being near her
own age, echoed Julia's very feeling.
Except for their dragoman and their
servants, the two women were alone
in the desert.
Smiling at Julia, Madame de Ia
Maine said: Il haven't been so far
from the Rue de la Paix in my iife."
How can you speak Of the Rue dc
la Paix, Therese?"
"Only to show you how completely l
have left It behind"
| Julia's eyes we're fixed upon the nra-
| itless sands, sea where faint line
lost itself in the red west and the horn
zon shut from her sight everything
that she believed to be her lie
"This is the seventh day, Therese!
Already you are as brown as an
Arab, Julia!"
You as well, ma chere amie!"
Robert does not like dark women"
said the Comtesse de la Maine, ana
rubbed her check. Il must wear two
veils''
Look, Therese!"
Across the face of the desert the
glow began to withdraw its curtain.
The sands sufrused an ineffable hue,
shell-like pink took possession, and the
desert melted and then grew colder-it
!, waned before their eyes, withered like
!, tea-rose.
Like rose!" Julia murmured.
smell Its perfume!" She lifted her
: head, drinking in with delight the
fragrance Of the sands.
INA chere Julia" gently protested
, the comtesse, lifting her head, per
. fume, Julia!" But she breathed with
!. her friend, while a sweetly subtle, in
: toxicating odor as of millions and mil
lions of roses, gathered, warmed, kept,
then scattered on the airs Of heaven,
intoxicating her.
- To the left were the huddled tents o.
!. their attendants. No sooner had the
sun gone down than the Arabs com
menced to sing-a song that Julia had
especially liked
Love in like a sweet perfume.
q 1t comes, 1t escapes.
When it's present. it intoxicates;
81 When it's memory, 1t brings tearA
, Love is like sweet breath,
1t comes and 1t escapes
Or The weird music filled the silence o
I'd the silent place 1t had the evanescen
:" quality of the wind that brought tn
breath of the sand-fowers. The voice
er of the Arabs, not unmusical, thougl
ID hoarse and appealing, cried out thei
love-song, and then the music turne
ia to invocation and TO prayer.
'e' The two women listened silently q
MT the night fell their figures sharpl
outlined in the beautiful clarity of tn
o. eastern night.
Julia stood upright In her 81 IT
NC riding dress, she was as slender -
boy. She remained looking toward tn
er horizon, immovable, patient, siler
te watcher over the uncommunicativ
= waste.
\ Perhaps" she thought, there
r nothing really beyond that line, SO fai
n blotting itself into highland yet
II seem to see them comet"
n Madame do la Maine. in the doc
Of her tent, i:arcyable, her hant
\ clasped around her Knees, look affe
IA tionately at the young girl before he
sA Julia was a delight to her She WI
sJ carried away by her, by her frank sir
"a plicity, and drawn to her warm ar
81 generous heart Madame de Ia Mail
"a had her own story. She wonder'
IN whether ever, for any period OF h
Nj conventional life, she could ha'
IN thrown everything aside and stood o
y with the man she loved.
M Julia, standing before her. dal
~ slim figure in the night-isolated al
"a alone-recalled the figurehead Of
e ship, its face toward heaven. pionst
~ ing the open seas.
lM
= Julia watched, indeed. On the desc
- there is the brilliant day. q passions
- glow, and the nightfall. They pass
~ the nights sometimes listening for
cry that should hail an approach
30 caravan, sometimes hearing the W
ID cry of the hyenas, or OF a passing '
ture on his horrid flight. Otherwi
> until the camp stirred with the da'
- and the early prayer-call sounded :"
A.. lahi Allah! Akbar!" into the st
ness, they were wrapped in compl'
silence.
now (To BE CoNTINuED3