The Washington times., 1921-04-17
The Isles of Love
(Continxed from Preceding Paoe)

Hurren. i SnOul6O, ClAppAu8 my
hands and striking my foot on the
veranda. Then I stopped suddenly
and was silent, my arms hanging
down at my sides, my mouth 1T
tie open, my eyes staring.
What was III
didn't know. There vas moth
ing in front of me but the empty.
sunburned space Of the clearing
before the house. russell colored,
full Of midday light ss lake vae
ley Is fun Of water. But I had
felt. Just for an instant. a. II the
place had personality~-ss II II
looked at me.
I did not like the feeling at al;
II was indsscfibable. but dismay-
Ing. pretended to myself, with
more or less success. that had
not felt anything.
There's too mNHh sun here. !
thought. There's too much
something-ldon't know What. Oh.
think I shall 60 mp stairs again
and hunt Lily's room for clothes.
shan't be able to % On long with
what ] stand up IN
made q great deal Of noise as
I went upstairs again. Curi"usly, !
did not want to make It. but 1
Obliged myself to do 20.
In Lily's room. after q good deal
3 Of hunting about. ] found o drawer
full of beautiful kin0nos. many
eolored a. butterflies
They are far too good" was my
thought, as I turned over the en-
broidered crepes. the gold-crusted
silks. But they win do all right;
the thin ones Win mako under
clothing. with Just . little cutting
and stitching up."
LilyA sewing machine l had Al
ready found; 1T was . small one OF
= the kind alleged ~stlent.t and Il
had scissors and thread IN the
drawers.
what did they do with her
stockings whom she diedy' I Won
dered. 'She must have had lots Of
lovely ones. with all those shoes.
Oh,---- ] had found the stock
ings underneath the last Of the
kimonos. ! don't know how many
pairs there were. All were Of real
silk; We had NO artificial silk In
those years.
81 wonder" said to myself,
holding up n pair OF Lily's stock
ings to the light and admiring the
pearly-blue color/6nd the white but
terAy on the instep, -if Lily was
really quite, quite respectable?
These stockings seem almost too
we'll. never!" -
The pair I had uaearthed this
time were sea-shel pink. and they
had q siiver-grsy mouse embroid-
cred kah way up the leg!
Nov I am perfectly certain she
was not" I said virtuously. "No
respectable girl would wear such
things"
/ pulled OF my own stockings.
and put ON the wicked pink things
with the wicked mouse. II made
II worse that there was no mouse
on the second stocking. Some
how I liked myself In thep very
well.
I'll keep them on; I have had
no clean stockings today said
to- myself. zone mast have clean
stockings,', Gas
But I had to take them off when
went to the bathroom for bath,
and a change Into a selection Of
Jilv's doubtfully moral clothes.
tied up all deficiencies with a sash
cut of one Of the lengths Of silk,
and surveyed myself in the glass.
Dear me, must put on the
stockings again" ] thought. well,
I shall keen them for bit. What
. pity there's no one here! ] do
like that kimono and sash" Then
! remembered that l was, Of course,
very glad indeed to be alone.
II was because the shoes were
so high-heeled, told myself. that
| did not put any of them on.
liked better-T was sure ! did
to walk about on the smooth floors
and verandas of the mysterious
house. silent. stocking shod.
It was wearing on in the after
noon now, and things began to
look different. I had not guessed
they could change SO in the course
Of a few hours.
I had not known that the yell
low Of the low sun could seem
wicked. and the trees turn poison
Gus green; that the sea, as night
drew on. could sound so much
louder, without change Of weather
or wind. II talked, thought, away
down there on the empty shore. Of
Death and Eternity. I had sought
Death and Eternity. not many
hours before; but now the names
, of them terrified me.
I was afraid. or what ! did
not know. Who that has met with
what ! met, in the lonely places
of the earth. can name the thing
he fears?
went into the house before the
sun had touched the horizon: !