Nogales international. [volume] (Nogales, Ariz.) 1926-1979, 1932-04-06

What charming little place yot
have! But then you must be OTTER
IN Paris to keep your own quarter.
here"
Rosanof had regained his voice. /.
not his poise. and he asked in 9
strangled tone. why did you come
here?"
"Mmna !. to see you"
You finished your rendezvous
early" said Rosanoff with a bitter.
ness that burst for.h in spite of him
| self, bitterness which the dancer
caught at once and which met her
wishes.
No ran away from it. Because
saw you I'm afraid Shubin was
in temper about it,"
i can't make you out!'
can't either" she admitted
This morning" he went on. you
acted like
I'm SORRY
tonight I find you alone
with"
Alexis. you mustn't think UNI
pardonabie thoughts. Shubin is rich
and influential He's an old friend
OF mine. and he is often very helpful.
surely. to dine with an old friend. t.
exchange kiss and clasp of the
hands for old times sakes-ts there
any harm in that2"
1t came into Rosanoff's mind that
he had heard that so potent was the
enchantment In which she held he.
lovers that even after she had d8-
serted them. they remained her de-
voted friends If that were true. how
could he. whom she had sought out,
resist her2 In the tumult which her
nearneSs engendered In his senses. he
forgot to be puzzled as to how she
had found him. he forgot. the wound
to his pride in the morning She had
only to touch his hand. look into his
eyes and say caressingly. We'll. then.
my dear? I've said I'm sorry Aren't
you glad I'm here?" and he was lost.
AS for the dancer. 1T gave her a
sort Of sensual qualification tust to
play with him. to let him embrace
her. TO draw away. to feel the strong
pull Of his senses toward her. to
taste her victory
Meanwhile. she had always in sight
the fact that the men below were
watching the windows. She could not
see them. Of course. but their sus-
pense wast ever-present. 1t was a
strange thing. her mind--one part of
it voluptuously languid. almost
drowsy. as she returned passion for
Rosanof's passion, for she drugged
herself as we'll as her victims-and
the other part lucid. matter of fact.
The Englishmen who had noticed that
she was business-like had really
shown some knowledge of character.
At length. she disengaged herself
and. Rosanof following her about.
she looked over the room again to see
If by chance she had missed any diff
culttes. But it was quite simple
room. There was door to the bed
room. not drapertes "a very good
thing.
She noticed a photograph of an ola
man and in niche close by lamp
burning before an ikon
Who Is the old gentleman"
my father"
Il like his face. And this" she said
Just to be saying something. is a pic
ture OF the Madonna"
THE Madonna of Kazan," said
Rosanof. pleased at her interest
MY mother made pilgrimage to the
Cioister OF Miracles to get it for me.
It's more than hundred miles from
our town. She walked all the way"
Indeed! What does it do? Bring
you luck?"
1T guards you from evil had to
go down on my knees ac the altar ano
promise I'd keep a perpetual flame
burning before It,"
And have your" she inquired.
"Oh. yes"
Something in the way he said it
made the dancer look at him Curl
ously.
you're funny boy"
who loves you'll" declared Rosanoh.
do you. indeed?"
st love you as one adores sacred
things" he said in a low voice.
This was game she played very
prettily when she chose.
What things?"
God Country +. Honor
YOU
Always their silly honor! II come
last?" she inquired offended
Mono! You come first before
anything"
Before God?"
After a pathetic struggle. ne
brought out the word. Yes"
Mata Hari regarded him with some
thing that may have been pity. he
did seem SO in earnest. To admit
that she came before God was. she
could see. sacrilege to him. And yet
the word. ''yes." had been wrung OUT
Of him. He was badly burnt!-
With a smile that promised to re-
ward him, she babe him in sou
voice to put out the lights. The blood
rushed to his head. He obeyed I'LL
the room was in darkness save for the
glitter Of the lamp before the ikon.
1t may have been the glow on the
gentle head OF the image that an
moved her. 1t may have been that
she thought, even this faint light
would be dangerous to her con1eo-
crates or might be reflected on the
window pane and confuse them as