The Washington times., 1923-02-25
CONTINUED from Last Sunday
CHAPTER xxx.

Both men were staring at
Sails, their eyes hard with anger
though their anger was inspired by
widely different reasons.
Sais stood facing them in cur
ious crouching attitude, with one
arm outstretched, bent and thrown
a little back in almost exactly the
attitude ofone who has just hurled
a missile and peers forward to see
the result. So, for an instant.
Then the crying of the child rose
almost to a scream and Sais turned
suddenly and glided out. precisely
as leopardess may turn from a
victim to her, cubs, or a Serpent
wind back to its eggs.
She had meant to wound terri
bly-she had paid high price for
that bitter luxury, though, with
the exception of Hoodless, they
were all slow to realize that-and
she had succeeded.
Despite her unhappy past and
the knowledge of the darker side
of human mature, which her mar
riage and her life after it had
forced upon her, Louise, almost
unconsciously, had preserved the
essential purity of spirit which had
. been her birthright, and the fero-a
cious, vicious, utterly naked reve-
lation and taunt of the dancing
girl had struck upon her conscious
ness with a force that seemed
physical as well as spiritual. Her
body cringed and shuddered under
the brutality of it, while, for a
few moments, her mind was
numb.
She went lax in the arms of
Lissmere, and a darkness deep
-ened about her mind, a darkness
through which harsh and veno-
NOUS voice seemed to drive again
like scarlet arrow.
eve shall be equal to each other
in the eyes of men-harlots of
Egypt bothw
She shivered and coldness
gripped her, stealing upon her like
frost. But almost instantly that
strange mental darkness was
checked-for. like the first beams
of dawn, ray of gold illumined it.
Charles Lammarsh is not
deadv'
If that were true it destroyed
her right to the name of wife
but also it meant that her husband
could not be charged, with having
caused his death-that Dick was
free-fee from danger, from
SANDER, from any public ordeal or
scandal. It meant that Sais in
striking a javelin through her
heart had drawn one from Dicks
that part, a great part, of her
husbands burden had been lifted
from his shoulders and, in a sense,
placed upon her own.
The realization thrilled through
her like sudden miraculous in
dux of new strength and courage
and the darkness about her soul
dispersed.
She raised her head from her
husbands shoulder and stood away
from his arms.
~"But Dick-Dick-don't you
see what it means? Charles Lam
marsh is not dead-and you are
innocentv' she cried, her face
TRANSPORTED.
"But you--your position"-he
stammered.
81 accept that gratefully. At
first-before / could think was
shaken, Mortified; but now that
see more clearly I regret nothing.
If / have sinned it has been in
ignorance-unwitting." She stop
ped abruptly at that, for now she
remembered the risk which she had
deliberately taken; that she had
married Lissmere while she still
doubted in her heart whether LAM
marsh was really dead.
She paled little as she realized
that she could not honestly claim
to have sinned Unwittingly. She
had taken a risk, and she had
known it to be a risk. She had
concealed from Dick her remote
fear that she might not be free to
marry-she had deliberately yield
ed to the temptation of welded
life with Lissmere, knowing that
it was possible that a day might
come when she would be unable
to claim that her happiness, her
Beauty Contented