The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1921-02-03
CHAPTER TX.
Below the Wallis

DclOW tHc W. ans
On his roof ngain. Con noted that
an awning OF green silk had been
stretched over his doorway. and a
couch placed beneath 1t In the open
air, for his added comfort. A silver
pitcher OF wine stood on a taburet,
and he found that the wine was ac-
ceptable, having been cooled In spring
water But all was secondary, even
the silent departure Of the guards, for
he was thinking In whirl OF Helen
March.
Her innocence was amazing, like her
wisdom-an American personality
with strange diagonals OF the Orient.
Con loved the tang Of desert sunlight
upon her face. her throat and arms.
Her shoulders were neither wide nor
narrow, and she was not tall. He re-
membered everything she had said.
and was unable TO evade her final ut
terance. which became more and more
a sublimated poison to him. He turned
back to yesterday, recalled how she
had ridden, how her pony had gal
| loped from the top OF the ravlne after
her word had saved them, how her
brown hair had streamed out from the
soft gray cloak. No Chinese princess
But. again, there was the gentle, al
most lifeless movement OF her hands,
and the low fullness Of her voice when
she talked OF Tau Kuan.
| She was delightful sorrow TO Lev.
ington. as II all his days, too, had fore
told her. She did not know herself.
She was eighteen. The ways OF these
outland people were familiar to her,
and II was natural she should love
their national interests, strangely Ike
Americas. bitterly different. The red
dish palace was home. Her mother
was gone. The grand vizlr had
brought her American gowns. street
suits. and other articles the models
had displayed at Sperman's In the city
terribly far distant.
There was no estimating the pains
the old Chinese had taken to secure
such things for her. Con knew at least
OF his connection with the Wedger
house, which must have been arranged
by secret means, and IL was clear that
Chez Ming had taken many a point
from Cecil Wedger's incipient queens
OF the cinema. The viZir had been
content to cook for young snob
merely 10 garner some information as
TO how young American girl should
be dressed. how she must talk and
think. and what, II anything. might
please her. Con appreciated the genius
that had made the exclusive wedgers
part OF Chez Ming's plan for the
completion OF Tau Kuan. empire OF
the Yellow Sun.
The tangle of East and West trou
bled Lexington more and more. Heller
had almost lost her mothers counsel
regarding Prince Yekutoi. II was toe
easy to feel the dead Eithna's horror
OF the young Mongol. and of the plar
she had foreseen. his marriage with
her little white daughter. The mother
must have striven TO develop American
instincts-the riding OF ponies, love Of
oak trees. independence. and natura
frankness.
Lexington saw more vividly how
March must have loved Eithna. how
the loss of her had nearly broken dowr
his sanity, and, at last, how he hat
kept secret his innermost intention FOL
another journey into the perilous Cobb
1t had meant too much for him to pu
his hope in words. He had planned {,
run down the international beast
koresh; all that side Of the story wa,
just as he had contided II to Leving
ton. But then there had been muci
more. March's interests did not begir
or end in q federal commission. Cor
realized now the deep and double 10!
| Of his friend when he had arst fount