Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-04
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back to the CreVlce at the dooIslll'
He paused.
''There was nov a delicate odor,
| everywhere, family, like the BIOS
som of the little bitter apple here IN
vour country. The red embers in
the fireplace gave u a steady light;
Land in the glow of it, on the mar
! Bile hearth, stood tho one who had
descended from the elevation Of the
a~ndiron."
Again the man hesitated. as for
an accurate method of expression.
I'm the flesh. Excellency. there
was color that would not appear in
;he image. The hair was yellow,
and the eyes were bluei and against
fhe black marble of the fireplace the
| body was c~onspicuously white.
but in every other aspect OF her'
| Excellency, the woman was on the
hearth in the flesh as she is IN the
clutch OF the savage male figure IN
the image.
There is no dress or ornament
as YOU will recall, Excellency: MOI
even an ear-jewel or an anklet' as
! though the graver OF the image ieIt
that the inherent beauty OF ms ns-
ure could take nothing from tnese
o~stentations.
sprhe yoman's heavy, yellow nalr
was wound around her head' as IN
the image. She shtvered a httle'
family, like a naked child In an un-
| accustomed draught of air. altnougr
she stood on the warm, marple
hearth and within the red sio" OIL
the fire. o1o ssr-e
Of the ina re, which L had brought
the Master, and which stood as the
andiron, now so immensely en-
Iarged, was beginning again TO
sneak. The thin metallic SOUND
seemed to splinter against the dense
silence as it went forward IN the
ritual prescribed.
"But the Master had already de-
cided; he stood now on h great
marble hearth with his papers
crushed together. And as I looked
on. through the c~revice under the
doorsill. he put out his free hand
and with his finger touched the
woman gently. The flesh under his
finger Welded, and STOPPING over, he
nut the formula into the fire"
Like one who has come to h END
of his story, the huge Oriental
stopped. He remained Cor some
moments silent. Then he continued
in an even, monotonous voice:
81 got Up from the 1oor then, ana
purified myself with water. Anu
after that / went into an upper
chamber, opened the window to the
east, and sat down to write my re-
mort to the brotherhood. For the
thing which 1 had been sent to do
was finished"
He nut his hand somewhere into
80 IS- nNinf1fnl gar
ment and brought out a roll OF thln,
vellum-like onion-skin, painted III
Chinese characters. 1t was of i'm
mense length, but on account of the
thiuness of the velluIn, the roll
wound on a tiny cylinder of WOOD
was not above two inches in thick
ness.
"ExceIlency," he said, 81 have
carefully concealed this report
through the misfortunes that have
attended me. 1t is not certain that
I shall be able to deliver it. Will
YOU give it for me to the jewel
merchant Vanderdick, in Amster-
dam? He will send it to Mahada1
in Bombay. and it will go north
with the caravans"
put the scroll into my pocket and
went out, for a motor a had come
into the park, and 1 knew that JON
quelle had arrived.
I met Jonquelle and the super
intendent in the long corridor; they
had been looking in st my interview
through the elevated grating.
"Jonquelle," I cried, 1.-The judge
was right to cut short the crimina!
trial and issue a lunacy warrant.
This creature is the maddest luna
tic in this whole asylum. The hui
man mind is capable of any absur-
dity."
Jonquelre looked at me with a
queer, ironical smile.
perhaps" he shrugged. there is
some explanation in the report in
your pocket, to the Monastic Head.
It's only a theory, you know"
He smiled, showing his white,
even teeth.
We went into the superintendent
room, and sat down by a smouldering
fire of Goals in the crate. 1 handed
Jonquelle the roll of vellum. 1t was
In one of the Shan dialects. He read
1t aloud. With the addition of GER
tain formal expressions, 1t contained
precisely the O~riental's testimony be-
fore the court and no more.