Evening star., 1923-01-09

her every evening in that dim, giided
chamber.
TITS only Rayma," Leonora said In
night because the sultan does not
come. He has not been to the harem
now for three months or longer. Not
since he left the city on some foray.
She fears some other girl has stolen
his heart from her"
the newcomer.
els 1t you. my sister?" she finished
inouisitively. For if so, shall love
you"
But Pansy had nothing to say.
why Rayma shrieked because the sui
tan had not come. There seemed TO
her more reason to shrek II he did
come.
CHAPTER Xxx.
On one OF the terraces of his palace
the sultan sat and brooded, his face
hard and savage, as he glowered at
the scene ahead of him; harmless
scene where night shadows settled
on a scented garden with the CLINT
OF q lake beyond.
Never In his life had such an in
dignity been put upon him. Never
had any one dared dispute his right
to do what he pleased. Never. Until
this English girl had come into his
life.
And she had struck him. The sultan
AS IL he were some erring meniai
whose ways had annoyed her.
Under the recollection the mans
untamed soul writhed.
She had done as she liked all her
life. All that money of hers had
given her ideas no woman ought to
oh
was her master.
She was in the harem now. And
there she could stay. A spell there
would cool her temper and make her
moro amenable to his wishes.
The trees In the garden sighed
family. The soft wind brought the
scent OF roses and the splash of a
fountain.
His mind went back to another
garden. in far-away Grand Canary.
The echoes of a girls voice whis-
"Put your ear quite close. It's not
a matter that can be shouted from the
house-tops."
She had shouted loud enough that
she hated him. She had not whis-
pered that fact.
A spasm OF pain crossed his face.
why did she fight against him
This slender. lovely, helpless girl,
whom he could break with one hand.
She fought bravely, with all the odds
against her. And she had dared to
do what no one else In the place dared
do. What no one had ever done in
the whole of his wild. unbridled life.
She had dared TO strike him, fair
and square with all her strength,
across the mouth.
Then suddenly his anger melted.
a smile came and played about his
Scared lips.
Surely no man could be angry for
long with a girl so brave and help
less.
He deserved it for his deception.
Just as he had deserved her scorn
and contempt over Lucille. She was
always giving him what he deserved,
this little English flower OF his.
More than he deserved, a strug-
Cling conscience breathed
For he had never deserved those
three words she had once whispered
in his ear:
II love YOU"
CHAPTER XXI.
All the following day Rayma
waited for the sultan's coming. Pansy
waited, also. BY now she realized
more fully what she had done: struck
and infuriated the man who held her
fathers life in his hand.
However. nothing was seen Of the
sultan either that day or the next.
For Pansy the days were the long
est she had ever spent In her life.
She could not doze away her time
as the other girls did, with coffee and
sherbet and cigarettes; their greatest
exertion a bath, or making sweet
meats over a charcoal brazier. or
doing intricate embroidery. She kept
out of their way as much as possible,
in her own room. or wandering aim
lessly in the garden. looking at walls
impossible for her to scale. wonder
ing what had happened to her father
and her friends, and what would
happen to herself But even the gar
den was barred TO her except in the
very early morning. and the brief