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diff --git a/42427-h/42427-h.htm b/42427-h/42427-h.htm index a5ae3a6..4289bf0 100644 --- a/42427-h/42427-h.htm +++ b/42427-h/42427-h.htm @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> - <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" /> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> <title> The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Kingdom of Slender Swords, by Hallie Erminie Rives. @@ -238,49 +238,7 @@ div.tnote { </style> </head> <body> - - -<pre> - -Project Gutenberg's The Kingdom of Slender Swords, by Hallie Erminie Rives - -This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with -almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org - - -Title: The Kingdom of Slender Swords - -Author: Hallie Erminie Rives - -Commentator: Baron Makino - -Illustrator: A. B. Wenzell - -Release Date: March 29, 2013 [EBook #42427] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE KINGDOM OF SLENDER SWORDS *** - - - - -Produced by David Edwards, Ernest Schaal, and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - - - - - -</pre> - +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 42427 ***</div> <div class="image-center" style="max-width: 469px;"> <img class= "border" src="images/cover.jpg" width="469" height="700" alt="cover page" title="cover page"/> @@ -403,7 +361,7 @@ no uncommon degree, should be correctly informed about ourselves, as far as the scope of this book goes. We attach great importance to a thorough mutual understanding of two foremost peoples on the Pacific, -in whose direction and coöperation the future of the +in whose direction and coöperation the future of the East must largely depend. It is, therefore, incumbent upon us all to do our utmost to cultivate such good understanding, not only for those immediately concerned, @@ -1061,7 +1019,7 @@ completely dissolute as a consistent disregard of conventional moral thoroughfares could well make it. To Yokohama he was rapidly coming to be, in the eyes of the censorious, an example for well-meaning -youth to avoid, an incorrigible <i>flanêur</i>, a +youth to avoid, an incorrigible <i>flanêur</i>, a purposeless idler on the primrose paths.</p> <p class="indent">"Better luck next time," said one of the others @@ -1111,7 +1069,7 @@ balustrade spoke interestedly.</p> <p class="indent">"It seems as though from here one could almost shoot a pea aboard any one of them."</p> -<p class="indent">"You might send me up some sticks of <i>Shimosé</i>, +<p class="indent">"You might send me up some sticks of <i>Shimosé</i>, Doctor," said Phil with satiric humor, "and I'll practise. I'll begin by shying a few at this forsaken town; it needs it!"</p> @@ -1121,7 +1079,7 @@ eyes, and held out his hand to the remaining visitor. The degrading lines had faded from his face.</p> <p class="indent">"I'm distinctly glad to have seen you, Mr. Daunt," -he said. "I've watched your trials with your aëroplane +he said. "I've watched your trials with your aëroplane more than once lately at the parade-ground. I saw the elder Wright at Paris last year and I believe your flight will prove as well sustained as his. @@ -1691,7 +1649,7 @@ the Japanese lessons!"</p> Patricia. "I prefer to take mine in through the pores. All the Japanese officials speak English anyway, just as much as the diplomatic corps. By the -way, there's Count Voynich, the Servian <i>Chargé</i>." +way, there's Count Voynich, the Servian <i>Chargé</i>." She nodded toward the farther end of the carriage where a bored-looking European plaintively regarded the landscape through a monocle. "He's @@ -1699,11 +1657,11 @@ nice," she added reflectively, "but he's a dyspeptic. I caught him one night at a dinner dropping a capsule into his soup. He has a cabinet with three <span class="pagenum"><a name="page36" id="page36"></a>[pg 36]</span> -hundred Japanese <i>nets'kés</i>—they're the little ivory +hundred Japanese <i>nets'kés</i>—they're the little ivory carvings on the strings of tobacco-pouches. He didn't speak to me for a month once because I said it looked like a dental exhibition. Almost every secretary -has a fad, and that's his. Ours has an aëroplane. +has a fad, and that's his. Ours has an aëroplane. He practises on it nearly every day on the parade-ground. The pudgy woman in the other corner with a cockatoo in her hat is Mrs. Sturgis, @@ -1961,7 +1919,7 @@ him, how they worked. In the end he made them understand the immense value of the scientific advancement of the western world. The visit was an eye-opener, and the wiser Japanese realized that the -nation couldn't exist under the old <i>régime</i> any +nation couldn't exist under the old <i>régime</i> any longer. It must make general treaties and adopt new ideas. Some, on the other hand, wanted things to stay as they were."</p> @@ -2074,7 +2032,7 @@ big as a dinner-plate."</p> <p class="indent">The big man made his way slowly along the aisle and, still absorbed, took a dust-coat from a rack. As he ponderously drew it on, the daylight was -suddenly eclipsed, and the rumbling reëchoed from +suddenly eclipsed, and the rumbling reëchoed from metal roofing. They were in Shimbashi Station.</p> <p class="indent">"Isn't he simply odious!" whispered Patricia, as @@ -2578,7 +2536,7 @@ fingers went searching for elusive hooks and eyes, <p class="indent">"So, <i>Ojo-San</i>! That mos' indeed true. All Japan name mean something. 'Haru' mean spring, for because -my born that time. Very funny—<i>né?</i>"</p> +my born that time. Very funny—<i>né?</i>"</p> <p class="indent"><span class="pagenum"><a name="page64" id="page64"></a>[pg 64]</span> "It is very pretty," said Barbara.</p> @@ -2594,7 +2552,7 @@ My house little lonesome now."</p> behind the garden. "Jus' there on the street call Prayer-to-the-gods. My house so-o-o small, an' garden 'bout such big." She indicated a space of perhaps -six feet square. "Funny!—<i>né</i>?"</p> +six feet square. "Funny!—<i>né</i>?"</p> <p class="indent">"And who lives there with you?"</p> @@ -2629,7 +2587,7 @@ look.</p> </div> <p class="indent">"<i>Ma-a-a!</i>" she exclaimed. "How it is <i>beau</i>-tee-ful! -<i>né</i>? only—"</p> +<i>né</i>? only—"</p> <p class="indent">"Only what?"</p> @@ -2752,7 +2710,7 @@ native 'vet.' But I shall have him looked at to-morrow."</p> <p class="indent">"I do hope you will," said Mrs. Dandridge nervously. "He almost killed Patsy's Pomeranian the -first day he came. Watanabé says he hasn't touched +first day he came. Watanabé says he hasn't touched his food to-day, and we can't take any risks with so many children in the compound. We have forty-seven, Barbara," she continued, "counting the stablemen's @@ -2762,7 +2720,7 @@ makes one feel tremendously patriarchal!"</p> <p class="indent">It was a home-like meal, albeit thin slices of lotos-stem floated in Barbara's soup, the lobster had -no claws, and the <i>entrée</i> was baked bamboo. Save +no claws, and the <i>entrée</i> was baked bamboo. Save for a high, four-paneled screen of gold-leaf with delicate etchings of snow-clad pines, the white room was without ornament, but the table gleamed with @@ -2969,7 +2927,7 @@ scientific impossibilities; let us hope so, at any rate."</p> <p class="indent">Barbara pushed the photographs aside and slipped into the next room, closing the door and -drawing the heavy portières that hung over it. She +drawing the heavy portières that hung over it. She had had for a moment a vague, almost childish, sense of shrinking as if from something monstrous and uncanny—such a sensation as the naked diver @@ -3073,7 +3031,7 @@ diplomatic circle, the first year had gone swiftly enough. Since then the Glider experiments had lent an added zest.</p> -<p class="indent">Even at college, Langley's first aëroplane had interested +<p class="indent">Even at college, Langley's first aëroplane had interested him and out of that interest had grown a course of reading which had given him a broad technical knowledge of applied mechanics. In Japan @@ -3097,13 +3055,13 @@ with the offer from the Japanese War Department of the use of an empty garage on the edge of the great esplanade. Only a month ago, he had awaked to the knowledge that his name was -known to the aëro enthusiasts of Paris, New York +known to the aëro enthusiasts of Paris, New York and Vienna, and that his propeller was an assured success.</p> <p class="indent">Yet to-night he felt that he had somehow failed. The splendid vitality of the moving scene, the thud -and click of wooden <i>géta</i> and the whirr of <i>rick'sha</i>—all +and click of wooden <i>géta</i> and the whirr of <i>rick'sha</i>—all the many-keyed diapason of the rustling, lanterned vistas stretching under the pale moon-lighted sky—lacked the sense of intimate companionship. @@ -3276,7 +3234,7 @@ shook off the hand on his shoulder and rising, still emitting his dreadful laughter, staggered across the lawn and out of the gate.</p> -<p class="indent">The appalling mirth reëchoed from far down the +<p class="indent">The appalling mirth reëchoed from far down the quiet road.</p> <hr class="hr2" /> @@ -3303,7 +3261,7 @@ in two years past he had had no such seizure—and the recurrence to-night shocked and disconcerted him. He, the man of brain and attainment, to be held captive by a ridiculous hysteria, like a nerve-racked -anæmic girl! The cold sweat stood on his +anæmic girl! The cold sweat stood on his forehead.</p> <p class="indent">Before long the paroxysms ceased and he grew @@ -3606,7 +3564,7 @@ of something else! The fright came afterward, when I saw you—when you left me on the railing." She spoke a little constrainedly, and went on quickly: "I really am a desperate coward about some things. -I should never dare to go up on an aëroplane, for +I should never dare to go up on an aëroplane, for instance, as Patsy tells me you do almost every day. She says the Japanese call you the 'Honorable Fly-Man'."</p> @@ -3667,7 +3625,7 @@ and flower-months of Eden. A dulled, weird sound from the street reached their ears—the monotonous hand-tapping of a small, shallow drum.</p> -<p class="indent">"Some Buddhist <i>devotée</i>," he said, "making a +<p class="indent">"Some Buddhist <i>devotée</i>," he said, "making a pious round of holy places. He is stalking along in a dingy, white cotton robe with red characters stamped all over it—one from each shrine he has @@ -3759,7 +3717,7 @@ dream version at all. I want this to be true."</p> <p class="indent">"Why?"</p> <p class="indent">Her tone was low, but it made him tingle. A sudden -<i>mêlée</i> of daring, delicious impulses swept over +<i>mêlée</i> of daring, delicious impulses swept over him. "Because I have dreamed too much," he said, in as low a voice. "Here in the East the habit grows on one; we dream of what all the beauty somehow @@ -3814,7 +3772,7 @@ her, uttering its harsh note, which, from some subtlety of suggestion hidden from the western mind, the Japanese liken to the accents of love. It startled her for a second; then she began to sing, -under her breath, to the tune of her clacking <i>géta</i>, +under her breath, to the tune of her clacking <i>géta</i>, a ditty of her childhood:</p> <p class="indent"><span class="pagenum"><a name="page102" id="page102"></a>[pg 102]</span></p> @@ -3903,7 +3861,7 @@ lantern fire, and lively with pedestrians. At a meager shop, pitifully small, whose <i>shoji</i> were wide open, Haru paused. A smoky oil lamp swung from the ceiling, and under its glow, a woman knelt on the -worn <i>tatamé</i>. Beside her, on a pillow, lay a newborn +worn <i>tatamé</i>. Beside her, on a pillow, lay a newborn baby, and she was soothing its slumber by softly beating a tiny drum close to its ear. She nodded and smiled to Haru's salutation.</p> @@ -4022,9 +3980,9 @@ a cord.</p> from within, and in a moment a little maid slid back the <i>shoji</i> and bobbed over to the threshold.</p> -<p class="indent">Her mistress stepped from her <i>géta</i> into the small +<p class="indent">Her mistress stepped from her <i>géta</i> into the small anteroom. Here the floor was covered with soft -<i>tatamé</i>,—the thick, springy rice-straw mats which, +<i>tatamé</i>,—the thick, springy rice-straw mats which, in Japan, play the part of carpets—and a bronze vase on a low lacquer stool held a branch of dark ground-pine and a single white lily. A voice was @@ -4086,7 +4044,7 @@ of too exalted a station, he could receive adoption into our family."</p> <p class="indent">He looked into her deeply flushing face. "You -think of the Lieutenant Ishida Hétaro," he said. +think of the Lieutenant Ishida Hétaro," he said. "It is true that the go-between has already deigned to sit on my hard mats. He is, I think, in every way worthy of our house. I would rather he were @@ -4248,7 +4206,7 @@ pictured Phil as "fast," and she wondered sleepily what the word meant here in the orient, where there were no theater suppers, and where men probably played <i>fan-tan</i>—no, that was Chinese—or some -other queer game instead of poker—unless they ... had aëroplanes.</p> +other queer game instead of poker—unless they ... had aëroplanes.</p> <p class="indent">The bell of the distant temple, which she had heard in the garden, boomed softly, and the <i>amma's</i> @@ -4399,7 +4357,7 @@ hardly growing foliage and unlovely walls.</p> <p class="indent">The Embassy was a pretentious frame structure in which frequent alterations had masked an original -plan. With its tall porte-cochère, its long narrow +plan. With its tall porte-cochère, its long narrow L which served as Chancery, the smaller white cottage across the lawn occupied by the Secretary <span class="pagenum"><a name="page120" id="page120"></a>[pg 120]</span> @@ -4432,7 +4390,7 @@ cheek and the round directness of the chin; and her eyes, bent on the lucent green, were the color of brown sea-water under sapphire cloud-shadows.</p> -<p class="indent">From a circle of evergreens near the porte-cochère +<p class="indent">From a circle of evergreens near the porte-cochère a white flag-pole rose high above the treetops. <span class="pagenum"><a name="page121" id="page121"></a>[pg 121]</span> The stars-and-stripes floated from its halyards, @@ -4641,7 +4599,7 @@ odors suggesting the vast languor of a land more ancient than Egypt and Nineveh.</p> <p class="indent">The carriage stopped abruptly at a cross street. -A <i>Shinto</i> funeral <i>cortège</i> was passing. Twelve +A <i>Shinto</i> funeral <i>cortège</i> was passing. Twelve bearers, six on each side, clad in mourning <i>houri</i> of pure white, bore on their shoulders the hearse, like a shrine, built of clean unpainted wood, beautifully @@ -4654,7 +4612,7 @@ then with little fans drawn from their girdles. Coolies, dressed in white like the hearse bearers, carried stiff, conical bouquets, six feet long, made of flowers of staring colors, and clumps of lotos -made of <i>papier maché</i> covered with gold and silver +made of <i>papier maché</i> covered with gold and silver leaf. The chief mourner, a woman, rode smiling in a <i>rick'sha</i>. She wore a silver-gray <i>kimono</i> and a tall canopied cap of white brocade with wide floating @@ -4677,7 +4635,7 @@ to diplomatic precedence. That French poodle in front belongs to the Japanese senior prince. The Aberdeen is the British Ambassador's. And there's the Italian Embassy bull-terrier and the -Spanish <i>Chargé's</i> 'chin.' The foreigners' dogs have +Spanish <i>Chargé's</i> 'chin.' The foreigners' dogs have black bows and the others white. Why is that, I wonder?"</p> @@ -4851,7 +4809,7 @@ a surging sea of brown faces held in check by a stretched rope; these gave place to a mass of officers standing in dress-uniform, with plumed caps and breasts ablaze with decorations; in another moment -they descended before a canvas <i>marquée</i> where +they descended before a canvas <i>marquée</i> where brilliant regimental uniforms from a dozen countries shifted and mingled with diplomatic costumes heavy with gold-braid, and with women's gay frocks @@ -4918,7 +4876,7 @@ to be a hero!" he muttered.</p> <p class="indent">"Running off with girls under your arm seems to have become a mania. But isn't your idea rather prosaic in this age of flying-machines? To swoop -down on one in an aëroplane would be so much +down on one in an aëroplane would be so much <span class="pagenum"><a name="page136" id="page136"></a>[pg 136]</span> more thrilling! This is the field where you practise, too, isn't it? Is that building away over there @@ -5110,7 +5068,7 @@ vitality, mobile and mercurial, hastening onward toward an inaudible unknown, but a splendid rebirth, a dazzling reincarnation of old spirit in new form, a symbol concrete and vital, like the blaze of a beacon -flaming a racial <i>réveille</i>.</p> +flaming a racial <i>réveille</i>.</p> <p class="indent">She turned toward Daunt, her hand outstretched, her fingers on his arm, her lips opened.</p> @@ -5159,7 +5117,7 @@ full of visitors' cards. He strode through the office and entered a large, glass-inclosed piazza where a number of Japanese, some in foreign, some in native costume, were watching a game of <i>Go</i>. Two -younger Legation <i>attachés</i> were shaking dice at another +younger Legation <i>attachés</i> were shaking dice at another table. It was but a little past noon and the place had an air of sober quiet, very different, Phil reflected, from the club on the Yokohama Bund, @@ -5198,7 +5156,7 @@ he observed more casually.</p> <p class="indent">"I'm not there," Phil answered. "I—I've got a little Japanese house."</p> -<p class="indent">"So! A <i>ménage de garçon</i>, eh?" The big man +<p class="indent">"So! A <i>ménage de garçon</i>, eh?" The big man held up his clinking glass to the light, and under cover of it, his deep-set yellowish eyes darted a keen, detective look at Phil's averted face. "Well," he @@ -5372,8 +5330,8 @@ straw ropes, and the great weight rose and fell, they chanted a wailing refrain, with something minor and plaintive in its burden—</p> -<p class="indent">"<i>Yó—eeya—kó—ra! -Yó-eeya—kó—ra!</i>"</p> +<p class="indent">"<i>Yó—eeya—kó—ra! +Yó-eeya—kó—ra!</i>"</p> <p class="indent"><i>What do you want me to do?...</i> The words wove oddly with the refrain. Why should he say @@ -5420,7 +5378,7 @@ drew away hurriedly:</p> <p class="indent">"See!" she said. "My know those people to come in gate. Talk—'bout my <i>papa-San</i>—please, so they -will to think he have know you, <i>né</i>?"</p> +will to think he have know you, <i>né</i>?"</p> <p class="indent">Phil obeyed the hint, but Haru's cheeks, as she saluted her friends, were flushing painfully. It was @@ -5972,7 +5930,7 @@ the entrance to the little park.</p> <p class="indent">Barbara realized instantly and uneasily that she was an intruder. Yet she felt an intense interest, mixed of what she had heard and of what she had -imagined. His <i>outré</i> street-costume had now been +imagined. His <i>outré</i> street-costume had now been laid aside; he wore Japanese dress, with dark gray <i>houri</i> and white cleft sock. His iron-gray head was bare. The expression of his face was conscious and @@ -6220,7 +6178,7 @@ half-blind, eccentric wanderer! I lived in a carpenter-shop and slept on the shavings. One week I sold coral for a Neapolitan peddler. Oh, I learned my civilization well! The very memory now of walking -down those roaring cañons of streets—all cut granite +down those roaring cañons of streets—all cut granite and iron fury, and hideous houses two hundred feet high—moos at me in the night! It is frightful, nightmarish, devilish! And when one can be here @@ -6287,7 +6245,7 @@ asked.</p> <p class="indent">"It is a wild flower I found on one of my inland rambles," he said. "Perhaps it has no name. I call -it <i>Yumé-no-hana</i>—the 'Flower-of-Dream.' It will +it <i>Yumé-no-hana</i>—the 'Flower-of-Dream.' It will open almost any day now."</p> <p class="indent">"Have you quite forgiven me for breaking in?" @@ -6366,7 +6324,7 @@ gold-rimmed spectacles.</p> <p class="indent">"You are honorably unwell," he said. "It is better to lie down in the heat of the day. Presently I -will say an insignificant prayer to the <i>Hotoké-Sama</i>—the +will say an insignificant prayer to the <i>Hotoké-Sama</i>—the Shining Ones—for your illustrious recovery."</p> <p class="indent">"I am not ill," was the answer. "Be not augustly @@ -6401,7 +6359,7 @@ the country; members of foreign Legations whirling in victorias; Chinamen, queued and decorously clad in flowered silk brocade; an occasional Korean with queerly shaped hat of woven horse-hair; over-dandified -<i>O-sharé-Sama</i>—"high-collar" men, as the Tokyo +<i>O-sharé-Sama</i>—"high-collar" men, as the Tokyo phrase goes—in tweeds and yellow puttees; comfortable merchants and men of affairs in dull-colored <i>kimono</i> and clogs; blue-clad workmen with the @@ -6422,7 +6380,7 @@ to this river.</p> <p class="indent">When evening falls women and children predominate: bent old women with brightly blackened teeth; patient-faced mothers with babies on their backs -toddling on clacking wooden <i>géta</i>; white-faced vermilion-lipped +toddling on clacking wooden <i>géta</i>; white-faced vermilion-lipped <i>geisha</i> glimpsing by in <i>rick'sha</i> to some tea-house entertainment; coolie women dressed like men, trudging in the roadway; girl-students @@ -6449,7 +6407,7 @@ breasts bared to the cool night.</p> <p class="indent">On the curb peripatetic dealers squat in little stalls formed of movable screens with their wares spread -before them; curio-merchants with a <i>mélange</i> of +before them; curio-merchants with a <i>mélange</i> of brass, crystal and bronze; dealers in <i>suzumushi</i>—musical insects in the tiniest cages of plaited straw; sellers of Buddhist texts and worm-eaten, painted @@ -6463,7 +6421,7 @@ men with arms full of vernacular evening newspapers call the names of the sheets in musical cadences, with a quaint, upward inflection. The air is filled with a heavy, rich odor, suggesting the pomade -of women's head-dresses, <i>saké</i>, and sandalwood. In +of women's head-dresses, <i>saké</i>, and sandalwood. In the roadway every vehicle contributes its bobbing lantern, till the traffic seems a celestial Saturnalia, staggering with drunken stars.</p> @@ -6722,7 +6680,7 @@ said, so softly that no one else heard.</p> "Why, of course. How could I help it, when you plan things like this for me?"</p> -<p class="indent">"I have at last found my <i>métier</i>; give me more +<p class="indent">"I have at last found my <i>métier</i>; give me more things to do."</p> <p class="indent">"Very well. When will you take me to see your @@ -6818,7 +6776,7 @@ the sybaritic pleasures of the social <i>gourmet</i>, subjects appealing to the imagination of the youth whom he was examining like a slide under the microscope. They had stopped once at a <i>chaya</i> for -tea, but Phil had called for the hot native <i>saké</i>, and +tea, but Phil had called for the hot native <i>saké</i>, and as its musty, sherry-like fumes crept into his blood he talked with increasing recklessness. Beneath their <span class="pagenum"><a name="page195" id="page195"></a>[pg 195]</span> @@ -6836,7 +6794,7 @@ on his brain and the sight of her fresh beauty to-day had fanned the coal to a flame. Those stolen kisses in the bamboo lane had roused a lurking devil that counted nothing but his own desires. For this -hour, while the <i>saké</i> ran in his pulses, the flame +hour, while the <i>saké</i> ran in his pulses, the flame overshadowed even Bersonin.</p> <p class="indent">"Well, my boy," said the latter at length quizzically, @@ -6867,7 +6825,7 @@ morning."</p> drew him. He looked at Bersonin. Paris and jewels!</p> -<p class="indent">He drank more <i>saké</i> at the next tea-house. It +<p class="indent">He drank more <i>saké</i> at the next tea-house. It had begun to show in a shaking of the hand, a louder voice. Suddenly Phil sprang to his feet. "There she is!" he exclaimed.</p> @@ -6951,7 +6909,7 @@ He had a clear, olive complexion, and, save for the narrow, Japanese eye, might have been a Spaniard.</p> <p class="indent">The small second-story <i>shokudo</i> in which they -dined was floored in soft <i>tatamé</i> edged with black +dined was floored in soft <i>tatamé</i> edged with black and laid in close-fitting geometrical pattern. Save for a plain alcove at one end, holding a dwarf pine and a single <i>nanten</i> branch with clusters of bright @@ -7002,7 +6960,7 @@ specialty. Nex' year I become Professor in Slang Literature at the Imperial University."</p> <p class="indent">The meal began merrily. Barbara sat on Daunt's -left, with one of the <i>attachés</i> next her. Baroness +left, with one of the <i>attachés</i> next her. Baroness Stroloff was on Daunt's other hand. Barbara remembered it afterward as a meal of elfish daintiness—of warm, pungent, wine-like liquor in blue porcelain @@ -7801,7 +7759,7 @@ Bersonin sat with Phil in his great laboratory. Dinner had been laid on a round table at one end of the room. This was now pushed into a corner; they sat in deep leather chairs with slim -liqueur glasses of green <i>crême de menthe</i> on a +liqueur glasses of green <i>crême de menthe</i> on a stand between them, with a methyl lamp and cigars.</p> <p class="indent">Phil had more than once refilled his glass from the @@ -8098,7 +8056,7 @@ earnestly with his great myopic eye, through a heavy glass mounted with a handle like a lorgnette.</p> <p class="indent">"My son," he said. "Why will you persist in eating -<i>amé</i>, when I have taught you the classics and +<i>amé</i>, when I have taught you the classics and the true divinity of the universe? It is too sweet for youthful teeth. One of these days you will be carried to a dentist, an esteemed person with horrible @@ -8333,7 +8291,7 @@ a great machine, like a gigantic vulture. She knew instantly what it was, and there flashed before her the memory of a day at Fort Logan when a brave young lieutenant had crashed to death before her -eyes in a shattered aëroplane.</p> +eyes in a shattered aëroplane.</p> <p class="indent"><span class="pagenum"><a name="page240" id="page240"></a>[pg 240]</span> If Daunt were to fall ... what would it @@ -8563,7 +8521,7 @@ rummaged discontentedly among the contents of the other: dried cuttlefish, bean-curd, slices of boiled lily-bulb, cinnamon-sticks, lotos stems and a coil of edible seaweed, all wrapped in green leaves. In -the end, the <i>mélange</i> followed the rice.</p> +the end, the <i>mélange</i> followed the rice.</p> <p class="indent">At Kamakura an immediate answer to the letter he brought was not forthcoming, and to kill the @@ -8754,7 +8712,7 @@ base were heaps of tiny stones, piled by mothers whose little children had died.</p> <p class="indent">They stopped at a tea-house open on all sides, and, -sitting cross-legged on its <i>tatamé</i>, drank tea from +sitting cross-legged on its <i>tatamé</i>, drank tea from earthenware pots that held only a small cupful, while they listened to a street minstrel beating on a tom-tom, and singing a mysterious song that seemed @@ -9143,7 +9101,7 @@ sweet with the moist scents of sodden leaves—then together, down the steep, templed hill and across the planked walk to the mainland, where a trolley buzzed through the springing rice-fields, musical -now with the <i>mé kayui</i>—<i>mé kayui</i> of the frogs. +now with the <i>mé kayui</i>—<i>mé kayui</i> of the frogs. Daunt accompanied them to the through line of the <span class="pagenum"><a name="page264" id="page264"></a>[pg 264]</span> railway. From there he was to return to Kamakura @@ -9275,7 +9233,7 @@ strangely on his fastidious tongue.</p> impulse, caution. He had many things to learn; he must find out how the land lay. He must <span class="pagenum"><a name="page268" id="page268"></a>[pg 268]</span> -move slowly, reëstablish the old, easy, informal +move slowly, reëstablish the old, easy, informal footing. Above all he must lay himself open to no chance of a definite refusal. A plan began to take shape. His telegram had told her he would arrive @@ -9304,7 +9262,7 @@ of whose arrival to-day's newspapers had been full.</p> <p class="indent">As he looked over the <i>menu</i>, a man sitting near-by rose and came to him with outstretched hand. He -was Commander DeKay, a naval <i>attaché</i> whom +was Commander DeKay, a naval <i>attaché</i> whom Ware had known in Europe. They had met again, <span class="pagenum"><a name="page269" id="page269"></a>[pg 269]</span> a few days since, at Kyoto. He hospitably insisted @@ -9469,7 +9427,7 @@ the Judge puts on his black cap."</p> <p class="indent">"Ah, but you'll have no chance," laughed the Baroness. "Trust a woman's eye."</p> -<p class="indent">"Unless his aëroplane takes a tumble," said the +<p class="indent">"Unless his aëroplane takes a tumble," said the American girl reflectively. "There's always a chance for a tragedy there!"</p> @@ -9901,7 +9859,7 @@ Aoyama parade-ground. The glass lantern above it threw a dim light on a gravel path twisting through low shrubbery. Down the street she could hear a dozen students chanting -the marching song of Hirosé Chusa, the young war +the marching song of Hirosé Chusa, the young war hero:</p> <div class="poem"> @@ -10023,7 +9981,7 @@ against the mantel.</p> <p class="indent">"Yes, yes!" she said. "My mus' drink—so to be gay, Phil-lip!" She drank the bubbling liquor at a -draft. "What are the use of to be good? <i>Né?</i>"</p> +draft. "What are the use of to be good? <i>Né?</i>"</p> <p class="indent">"You're right, little girl! The pious people are the dull ones!" He came to her unsteadily—he had @@ -10037,7 +9995,7 @@ think a lot more of me if I got it for you?"</p> <p class="indent">"You so—much clever!" she laughed. "No all same Japan man. He ve-ree stupid! My think you mos' bes' clever man in these whole worl', to goin' -find so much money—<i>né?</i>"</p> +find so much money—<i>né?</i>"</p> <p class="indent">With a savage elation he drew her close in his arms. The great spiral of her headdress drooped @@ -10086,7 +10044,7 @@ where a rough, improvised amphitheater had been erected. Patricia called to the driver, and he pulled up.</p> -<p class="indent">"Fire-walk," said the <i>betto</i>. "Ontaké temple."</p> +<p class="indent">"Fire-walk," said the <i>betto</i>. "Ontaké temple."</p> <p class="indent">From their elevated seat they could see white-robed and barefooted priests waving long-handled @@ -10137,7 +10095,7 @@ even street-noises—to copyright at home."</p> <p class="indent">Presently the horses stopped before a great gate of unpainted cedar, roofed with black and white tiles and bossed with nails of hammered copper. -Above it two pine-trees writhed like a Doré print. +Above it two pine-trees writhed like a Doré print. "One of the Empress' ladies-in-waiting lives here," Patricia said. "I'll walk home and on the way I can leave some 'call-tickets'—Tucker's name for visiting-cards. @@ -10176,7 +10134,7 @@ read it over and over, kneeling in the drift of pillows, her red-gold hair draping her white shoulders, thrilling, murmuring little inarticulate answers to its phrases, looking up now and then to peer through -the bamboo <i>sudaré</i> to the white and green cottage +the bamboo <i>sudaré</i> to the white and green cottage <span class="pagenum"><a name="page296" id="page296"></a>[pg 296]</span> across the lawn. He would not see her to-day—until evening. Then he would ask her....</p> @@ -10312,7 +10270,7 @@ showed that the flight was a deliberate one.</p> <p class="indent">It pained him to think what the return of the book and the little cross might mean. In his long residence in Japan the bishop had grown accustomed -to strange <i>dénouements</i>, to flashing revelations +to strange <i>dénouements</i>, to flashing revelations of subtle deeps in oriental character. But save for one instance of many years ago—which the sight of Barbara must always recall to him—he had never @@ -10338,7 +10296,7 @@ shrill voices.</p> <p class="indent">In one of the cross-streets a dozen coolies strode, carrying flaming white banners painted in red idiographs. -The last bore a huge <i>papier-maché</i> bottle—an +The last bore a huge <i>papier-maché</i> bottle—an advertisement of a popular brand of beer. A brass band of four pieces, discoursing hideously tuneless sounds, led them, and between band and @@ -10456,7 +10414,7 @@ opened it to the title page.</p> <p class="indent">Ware, watching, saw with surprise that she was trembling violently. She had grown pale to the lips. The book slipped from her fingers and crashed -on to the <i>tatamé</i>. It lay there, open as she had held +on to the <i>tatamé</i>. It lay there, open as she had held it, and he saw what was written across the white leaf. It was Daunt's name.</p> @@ -10504,7 +10462,7 @@ Daunt, or with her belief in him? She had accepted his own advances, beckoned him half around the world—for what? To discard him for this man whom she had known but a handful of days! -Chance had arranged this <i>mise en scène</i>. Was he to +Chance had arranged this <i>mise en scène</i>. Was he to tell her the truth—and lose her? The key to the situation was in his hand. He had only to keep silence!</p> @@ -10520,7 +10478,7 @@ there, her face deathly pale, her hands wrenching and tearing at her sleeves. She laughed, a high, gasping, unnatural treble.</p> -<p class="indent">"So-o-o, <i>Ojo-San</i>! You come make visiting—<i>né</i>? +<p class="indent">"So-o-o, <i>Ojo-San</i>! You come make visiting—<i>né</i>? The shrill voice rang through the silent room. "My new house now, an' mos' bes' master. No more Christian! My bad—oh, ve-ree bad Japan @@ -10548,7 +10506,7 @@ closed her eyes.</p> <p class="indent">Behind her Haru's laughter had broken suddenly. She rushed into the little sleeping-room and threw -herself on the <i>tatamé</i> before the tiny image of Kwan-on, +herself on the <i>tatamé</i> before the tiny image of Kwan-on, in a wild burst of sobbing.</p> <p class="indent">Ware opened the <i>shikiri</i> softly, and with noiseless @@ -10608,11 +10566,11 @@ was a crawling stream of gleaming black enamel, sweating horses, crackling whips, and shouting <i>bettos</i>. Daunt picked his way among these to where a wide swath of electric light beneath the -porte-cochère struck into high relief a strip of scarlet +porte-cochère struck into high relief a strip of scarlet carpet.</p> <p class="indent">The interior was dressed with that marvelous -attention to minutiæ and artistic <i>ensemble</i> that is +attention to minutiæ and artistic <i>ensemble</i> that is characteristically Japanese. The great hall was brilliant <i>opera bouffe</i>: a mingling crowd of gold-braided uniforms crossed by colored cordons and @@ -10738,7 +10696,7 @@ It's a part of the process of Westernization!"</p> <p class="indent">Daunt started when Patricia's fan tapped his arm.</p> <p class="indent">"You're frightfully late," she said, as her partner, -the German <i>Chargé</i>, bowed himself away. "Father +the German <i>Chargé</i>, bowed himself away. "Father will give you a wigging if you don't look out."</p> <p class="indent">"I saw him a few moments ago," he answered. @@ -11167,7 +11125,7 @@ been erected for foreign spectators. It was crowded <span class="pagenum"><a name="page327" id="page327"></a>[pg 327]</span> with tourists—a bank of perspiring, fan-fluttering humanity. Up and down trudged post-card sellers, -and <i>saké</i> bearers with trays of shallow, lacquer cups. +and <i>saké</i> bearers with trays of shallow, lacquer cups. The air shimmered with a fine white dust from the thousands of wooden clogs, and the trees were sibilant with the tumult of the <i>semi</i>.</p> @@ -11217,7 +11175,7 @@ hanging from the bearing-poles of lurching, bronze-muscled coolies. Young peasant girls trotted by swinging baskets of yellow asters and purple morning-glories. A <i>rick'sha</i> carried a baby with gay-colored -dolls and painted cats of <i>papier-mâché</i> tied +dolls and painted cats of <i>papier-mâché</i> tied behind it, on its way to the family shrine where the toys could be blessed. The <i>rick'sha</i> man was smiling, but his cough rattled against Barbara's heart. A @@ -11338,7 +11296,7 @@ She smiled back at them over her shoulder. The frank, honest kindliness of the couple pleased her.</p> <p class="indent">The piazza opened into a small sitting-room with -cool bamboo chairs and portières of thin green silk +cool bamboo chairs and portières of thin green silk stenciled with maple-leaves.</p> <p class="indent">"Will you wait a moment, Barbara?" asked Ware. @@ -11376,7 +11334,7 @@ kind, Austen," she said. "I—I don't know what to say."</p> <p class="indent">"Then say nothing," he answered cheerfully. He -stepped to the door and drew aside the portière. She +stepped to the door and drew aside the portière. She was agitated, feeling unable to meet the situation in the conventional way. At the threshold she paused and held out her hand.</p> @@ -11423,7 +11381,7 @@ lanterns. The air was heavy with balsam odors, and beneath the trees, sparkling now with incandescents, tiny black moths had replaced the sunlight flashing dragon-flies. Sitting in a semicircle on straw mats -the <i>samisen</i> players at length mingled their <i>outré</i>, +the <i>samisen</i> players at length mingled their <i>outré</i>, twittering cadences with the soft thunder of the water.</p> @@ -11667,7 +11625,7 @@ Was she making game of him? He saw Barbara's gaze go past him—to fasten on something <span class="pagenum"><a name="page342" id="page342"></a>[pg 342]</span> in the background. He turned. In the doorway with -its maple-leaf portière stood Austen Ware.</p> +its maple-leaf portière stood Austen Ware.</p> <p class="indent">Barbara's laugh had fallen in a shuddering breath that was like a sob. "Here is your brother now," she @@ -12219,7 +12177,7 @@ gains will be enormous, for in spite of the selling the market is up. There has been a little distrust of the situation here and there, though the optimists have had their way. And this latent distrust will add to -the <i>débâcle</i> when it comes. We are just in time, for +the <i>débâcle</i> when it comes. We are just in time, for the Squadron has its sailing-orders for to-morrow. Strange how near we were to failure! Who could have foreseen the death of the King? And the rains, @@ -12384,7 +12342,7 @@ was a huddle of wreckage, upon which lay the huge roof, crumpled and shattered, like the fragments of a gigantic mushroom. From the tangle projected beam ends, coiled about with painted monsters, and -here and there in the cluttered <i>débris</i> lay great +here and there in the cluttered <i>débris</i> lay great images of unfamiliar deities. Over all hung a fine yellow dust, choking and penetrating.</p> @@ -12800,7 +12758,7 @@ All about her the foam-stippled water glowed with points of phosphorescence, as though a thousand ghostly lanterns were afloat. It made her think of the festival of the <i>Bon</i>, of which Thorn had told her, -when the <i>Shoryo-buné</i>—the boats of the departed +when the <i>Shoryo-buné</i>—the boats of the departed spirits—in lambent flotillas, go glimpsing down to the sea. How unbelievable that she should never see him again! She felt a sudden envy of the placid @@ -12897,7 +12855,7 @@ nothing has been heard of him."</p> general, the conversation veering to the Squadron. The Ambassador thought the other seemed somewhat distrait. At two the affair ended and the carriages -drew up to the windy porte-cochère. There +drew up to the windy porte-cochère. There was a confidential matter which the Ambassador wished to speak of with his host. He had mentioned it, but no fitting opportunity had occurred. At the @@ -13127,7 +13085,7 @@ circle about her with a passionate entreaty. Suddenly she saw the Ambassador. She lifted her face, swollen with crying, to him:</p> -<p class="indent">"You—nod know me—Haru?" she faltered, "<i>né</i>? +<p class="indent">"You—nod know me—Haru?" she faltered, "<i>né</i>? Say so!"</p> <p class="indent">"Haru!" he exclaimed. Then, turning to the @@ -13273,7 +13231,7 @@ of sunrise," he said in an agitated voice. "Surely there is time!"</p> <p class="indent">The Admiral was consulting an almanac when the -<i>aide</i> reëntered. "Here is a telegram," he said. "Put +<i>aide</i> reëntered. "Here is a telegram," he said. "Put it on the wire at once. It must arrive before us."</p> <p class="indent">"Excellency," said the <i>aide</i>, "the train is not possible. @@ -13313,7 +13271,7 @@ sign of agitation was his labored breathing.</p> <p class="indent">"Can a horse get through?"</p> <p class="indent">The other shook his head. "Not under three -hours. It would have to be by <i>détour</i>—and there +hours. It would have to be by <i>détour</i>—and there are no relays."</p> <p class="indent">"A motor car?"</p> @@ -13418,8 +13376,8 @@ chant—</p> <div class="poem"> <div class="stanza"> -<span class="i0"><i>"Yó—eeya—kó—ra!</i></span><br /> -<span class="i0"><i>Yó—eeya—kó—ra!"</i></span><br /> +<span class="i0"><i>"Yó—eeya—kó—ra!</i></span><br /> +<span class="i0"><i>Yó—eeya—kó—ra!"</i></span><br /> </div> </div> @@ -13538,7 +13496,7 @@ I watched. In a little while your friend Daunt came from the gate. In some way he happened to be there. The <i>betto</i> was flogging the horses like a crazy man. He came in this direction!—Can't -you understand? His aëroplane! He is going to use +you understand? His aëroplane! He is going to use it as a last chance. If he succeeds, we may spend our lives in the copper mines. If he can be stopped, we may win yet! There will be nothing but the tale of @@ -13588,7 +13546,7 @@ secret-keeping eyes.</p> <p class="indent">He tried to <i>force</i> his mind to a measure of control, to look the situation in the face.</p> -<p class="indent">If Phil failed. If the aëroplane won against darkness +<p class="indent">If Phil failed. If the aëroplane won against darkness <span class="pagenum"><a name="page402" id="page402"></a>[pg 402]</span> and wind—if the bungalow was reached in time, and the machine made harmless. Nothing @@ -13601,7 +13559,7 @@ on the roof damned anybody, it would not be him! <i>He</i> had not put it there. <i>He had not been in Yokohama in three days!</i></p> -<p class="indent">If the aëroplane did not start—he remembered the +<p class="indent">If the aëroplane did not start—he remembered the look on Phil's face when he rushed away!—or if it failed. With its own deadly ray, the very machine would vanish. Phil had not known this—could not @@ -13674,7 +13632,7 @@ babies. To-morrow, like to-day, would be holiday, when school and work alike should be forgotten. The cavalcade had just returned—afoot, since the trams had ceased running at midnight—the men -merry with <i>saké</i>, the women chattering. A few +merry with <i>saké</i>, the women chattering. A few children, still wakeful, scampered here and there.</p> <p class="indent">The chauffeur leaned forward with an exclamation—they @@ -14088,7 +14046,7 @@ of unreality and swiftly weighed his position.</p> <p class="indent">The other was directly in front of the propeller, a perilous place. Only the guy-wire was in his reach. Between them was a shuddering space. To land in -the darkness to rid the aëroplane of that incubus, +the darkness to rid the aëroplane of that incubus, was impossible. He must go on. Could he win with such a terrible handicap? He set his teeth. Tilting the lateral vanes, he soared in a wide serpentine, @@ -14270,7 +14228,7 @@ A jolt all but threw him from his seat. There were running feet somewhere far below him—a battering <span class="pagenum"><a name="page423" id="page423"></a>[pg 423]</span> and shattering of glass in the piazza. He felt a -sudden clearance and the big aëroplane plunged sidewise +sudden clearance and the big aëroplane plunged sidewise out over the bay, with a black, unwieldy weight, that spun swiftly, hanging on its grapnel.</p> @@ -14643,7 +14601,7 @@ they may choose.</p> <p class="indent">"Item: To the aged I bequeath snowy hair, the long memories of the past and the golden <i>ihai</i> on the Buddha-Shelf. I give them the echo of tiny bare feet -on the <i>tatamé</i>, and the grave bowing of small shaven +on the <i>tatamé</i>, and the grave bowing of small shaven heads. I devise to them the evening's blaze of crimson glory and the amber clouds above the sunset, the pale <i>andon</i> and the indigo shadows, the dusk dance @@ -14739,383 +14697,7 @@ spellings were not corrected unless otherwise noted.</p> </div> - - - - - - -<pre> - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Kingdom of Slender Swords, by -Hallie Erminie Rives - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE KINGDOM OF SLENDER SWORDS *** - -***** This file should be named 42427-h.htm or 42427-h.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/4/2/4/2/42427/ - -Produced by David Edwards, Ernest Schaal, and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This -file was produced from images generously made available -by The Internet Archive) - - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions -will be renamed. - -Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no -one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation -(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without -permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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