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UENA, THE GEISHA QUEEN,
OF
THE PLAY-GROUND OF PASSION.
BY CHARLES J. H. HALCO XUE. (Author of "The Mystic Flowery Land,"
Children of Far Cathay," oto,}
CHAPTER VII.
THE FESTIVAL OF TANNO MATSURI.
Next morning Merton noticed that the harbour was alive with gondola-like sampane froighted children, especially the latter, whose quaint with gorgeously dressed damsels and young enfumes were ornamented with birds, dragons and other mythological monsters.
soulptures and treasured mementoes of bygonal It was a novel and inspiriting sight, dynasties. Who, after ones visiting beautifuad these gladsome good-natured people in O Sawa, can ever forget its sacred groves as their gay attire, with the glimmering fairy-like gardens and its romantic tea-housee lights of their many-coloured Interns where the daintiest of doll-like moxamdeswelcomt bobbing about. among the and gladden the stranger with their awee foliage, the spiked and fonlike leaves of which variegated engaging ways?
wore olearly silhouetted against the pale brilliant sky. Down through the hills to the valley steamed a food of opaline light which flowed loud with the mirth and music of this joyous multitude.
After wandering about for some time they passed through a fine torii, and traverging a path hedged on either side with the choicest palms and flowers entered a spacious garden of the willow-pattern typo, having ornamental waters by horse shoe hog-backed bridges; miniature bespangled with the sacred lotus and spanned hills and monataina crowned with temples and pagodas; form-covered rookwork with stunted trees and splashing cascades; small flights of marble steps leading into the lair of stone foxes and still stranger beasts; and artistic terraces decorated with daimin lanterns and planted with firs and maples cut into grotesque shapes, beside itis, daffodils and pink and scarlet azaloss. dowers of every description, including roset, lilies While the skipper and the two mousmies with cabbage-tree palm to regals themselves with cakan him pansed beneath the shade of a splended and straw-coloured tea in tiny cups, O S80-san drew Merton aside into an arbour covered with clematis and parple wistaría. Here they seated themselves upon a wooden bench in front of which was a small square table.
As each carried a Chinesuor Japanese lantern. quota to the illuminations; while the skipper Merton and his lady friends contributed their aud his paper parasol added colour and diguity to the scene.
met at the gate by Huna-san, who with the On arriving at the goiabae' house they were other girls persuaded the gentlemen to enter and partake of some slight refreshment before returning to the yacht. The invitation was accepted, and Merton and the skipper soon found themselves squatting upon the white- matted floor eating rice, fish and cakes with these sweet mousmdes
Ever
After breakfast he and the skipper went ashore to the English Settlement and soon learned that it was the opening day of Tanne Matsuri, or the festival of Tanne, the Japanese Neptune.
The native houses were decorated with colour blazoned with a rising sun and crossed in honour ed papers, lanterns and white silken flaga em of the Mikado; and the streets were crowded with bearing fans, banners and lanterns, while kites boys and girls playing ball and battledore and were soaring in every direction. Our friends also met a procession of children carrying huge LEMCO is simply pure freshhensis made of basket work and large square beef highly
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Morton bought a fine lantern on a stick, and taking the hand of a chubby little Jap began stepping out with him at the tail end of the pro-
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"Hallo!" oried the skipper; "going on the
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"No," said Merton, "I'm going to pay my respects to old Joe Tauno."
Thon I just calculate that I shall come with yon to ald Joss Tanus," growled the skipper, For you'll be coming home on a shutter."
Merton soon became very chummy with hie newly-found friend, who was quite a chip of the Id block, and by node and signs they carried on a most animated conversation. The little fellow seemed delighted with this jovial foreigner who loaded him with sweets und sil manner of trifles dear to the heart of a Japaneso child and, when he happoned to moot a small friend of his, he would stop and with all the gravity and decorum of a grandfather go through an alahorate ceremonial," böbbing his little hosd and exelonging civilities with great gusto. Then he and Morton would run on and join the procession, at the end of which, with a paper parasol spread over his head, salomanly trudged, The Yankee skipper, who observed everything and kept up a running fire of comment. On one necasion, he found himself in the midst of a dozen ricsbas containing a party of geisha apparelled more gorgeously than butterfics.
foreigner, Merton's mind had been uneasy sinco meeting that mysterious about Vena, and he now casually inquired after hor. He was thunderstruck when 6 Haz- Informed him that she had left Nagasaki.
Loft Nagasaki!"he exclaimed with evid eat concern. "Where Is she gone?)
"I think she go Yokohama,” replied ✪ Haus. "Hullo!" said the skipper with a look of sbrowd suspinion: "another link to the cable?"
"Confound it." frowned Merton "can't you
O Sao-san kicked off her sandals and tacking her feat under her on
the seat shook out of her sleeve an embroidered pipo case, a tobacco pouch and a small one or metal-lined casket of polished wood Filling the thimble-like bowl of her kisure with a pinch of tobacco she lighted it from the
The girls tittered mong themselves, and charcoal and, taking a few, whiffs tapped i Sao-san looked wistfully around from ons against the mono and refiling it, meditatively to another, sagerly scanning their faces smoked for a minute or two; while Merton if trying to road their thoughts. enjoyed a cigarette and watched her erary Then she darted a glance. full of jealous dis movement with silent amusement. Then shu trust at Merton. But he was tau agitated to put her smoking utonsils away and carefully pay any heed to such trivialities and soon found rubbing her lips with some rouge taken from a
an excuse for rotarning to the yacht. small bronze box also carried in her elsovo, she sidled close to him and with a sigh of ennut
aid her head against his urai,
"I love," she cooed, screwing herself up with childish contentment. You love?" Yes, I love," he responded apathetically, his thoughts boing elsewhere.
She suddenly drew herself from him and turning round closely scrutinized his face, He smiled and caressingly pinched her olin, but she wai not satisfied and pouting her lips moved away to the end of the seat and began tumming her hortamisen.
Merton now observed that they wer being watched by a strange-looking man of French appearance who kept hovering about near the arbour and glancing twards them. He was tall and bony with thick black hair and black picroing eyes and had a long cadaverous face paar-like- in from a singalarly broad sad lofty forebant to a shape and tapering pointed beard which was surmounted by thin ends. He wore clerical-looking dothes and a straight moustaches slightly curling at the black felt wide-awako hat.
Seeing that bis movements were noticed, he suddenly came into the arboar and seating him self opposite O Sao-san leaned over the table" and addressed her in Japanese, speaking in an eager excited manner and repeatedly mention ing O Vean-san's name,
Perhaps remembering the incident in the arbour when she had made her childish confes sion of love, O Saou Instinctively divinod the case of his sudden dejection and seemed to feel cruelly alighted. She looked so pitiably osbogone that when the other moussées were accompanying him and the skipper down to the beach and she hung back in the roar, he went to her and in a kind brotherly manner drew her Jittlo arm into his "and tried to make every roparation. But she broke away. from him and with a choking sub rushed back indoors.
He followed her into the house, which was now in darkness except where the moonlight streamed in through window or doorway. Turning into the room they had just vacatod, he found her lying free downward upon the floor and she was sobbing as if her heart would tuar-solan face, at the same time trying to break. He gently lifted her up and kissed her comfort her, but she struggled barely und beat her breast. He then heard the girls and the skipper coming to look for him,
"Go gal" she panted, tearing herself from his embrace and again throwing herself upon the ground.
Well," he said, stroking his beard and panning to admire them, "talk about Belomon and Lord Georga Sanger, they'd be nowhere here. This is what I call neat but aut gaudy, as the devil said when he viewed the rainbow.'
The other girls were already upon the ver On they went through the native town, with
andah. He stood for a moment full of remorse its paste beard hone and Oriental smelle, and
sympathy and irresolation. He felt the soft then ascended a hill covered with fir, elm, pino,
impeachment most acatoly, but could do nothing larch and camphor trees, and gardens filled with
to mend matters, and he dreaded a scone. So he fruits and flowers and vagafables-with melons,
reluctantly slank
away. peare, orangos, persimmons and pomegranates
"Poor little dear" ho thought to himself. in abundance, and with roses, lilies, iris,
Who would have thought it? I have been a azaleas, pecuies and rhododendrams, the paths
brate but I never dreamed of anything being lined with foras daisies, buttercupa blue violets and milk thistles, besides the deprive you of her company,"
Then, sir," said Merton ourtly, "I will not seriona."
Bat hie- remorseful reverie ordinary weeds of an English roadside; while
was rudely here and there quaint little strines pooped outing indignant as this impudent intrusion. He
Rising from the seat he left the arbour, fool-interrupted by the skippor.
"Hullo, Mr. Morton," he said sympathetical from among nubrageous foliage.
had only gone a few steps, however, when Oly, "I thought you had hung your hat up Fao-san cause running after him and impulsively somewhere, and had gone to find it. Lovely clutched his arm.
moonlight night, isn't it? "
Suddenly the skipper's vigilant are discerned three of the geisha they knew standing among some other girls outsido a rustic in' in front of which was a long row of cloth-covered sakékoýsa emblazoned with dragons,
"Hullo, there's my little cham!" he cried, leaving the procession and striding towards the girls, followed by Merton, who had at once taken leave of his little friend, who stood with his candy, regretfully watching the departure of this good genius with the big foro lantern.
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The three moueméte-whe proved to be O Bao-san, Sewa-san and O. Seeka-san-were evidently delighted at this unexpected recontre and ran forward to meet their bold cavaliers.
Thon ho turned abruptly to Morton and with a quick gesture pointed to O Sac-san.
This is my friend, eir," he said, speaking with French accent and looking a veritable Mephistopheles as he smiled insidiously.
"No good; had man." She ejaculated with shiver of aversion, glancing behind her. sterious stranger had disappeared. He now
Merton stopped and looked back, but the my tried to interrogate O Sao-san concerning this "friend" of hers, but could not make her under efand, though he contrived to gather from her that the man had been to Nagaoki onco before and was feared and disliked by the goisha and to learn about O Uena-sau. that his object in spooking to her had been
"Yes, lovely night," said Marton disinterest- edly, joining the ladies and making a dismal effort to appear cheerful,
They now went down to the beach and the slipper hailed the yacht. In response, the four- oared gig was immediately sont dahere, and our friends took leare of the ladies and returned to the vessel.
Shortly after midnight the Far Cathay weighed anchor and steamed down the harbour with the outgoing tide, bound for Yokohama, Merton paced the quarter-deck in moody silence, and the imperturbable skipper perched himself watching the upon the topgallant rail, and. while progress of the Tessal,
This information considerably disquieted Merton, but he did not mention the matter to They were dressed more brilliantly than ever.& game of battledors with the other two geisha. Captain Slice, whom they soon fennd having Their lips were deeply carmined, thoir cheeks Up to that time the skipper had been kept in sentimentally hummed an antiquated song: well ronged and cusmelled, and their elaborate ignorance of Uena's existence, so he knew noth-My own Blue Be!!! my pretty Blao Bell, coiffures bedecked with mut-li blossoms, large ing of Merton's friendship with her. kanzashi pins and combs of bronze and mother- of-pearl. O Sao-san was radiant in an apple reen kimono and light blue ebi lined with crimson satin' to match the inside of her sleeves, and there was a sweet musky odour of jako about her garments. As usual, she quite monopolized Merton, so the skipper was left to chaperone her two companions, an office which he performed with becoming gallentry, taking one on each vem and conducting them, ander the shade of his parasol, into the gurden of the inn, where they congregatad beneath the spreading foliage of a plum tree.
The ladies drank small quantities of the best Osnka saté, warm, and münched delicious white hiokoski oakes; and the gentlemen smoked and regaled themselves with hieru-eske, or Toko- hama-måde lager beer, while s fair loki-wona of the strolling minstrel class came and discoursed sweet selections on the samisen.
From the direction of the "inn an unpleasant effiovint of cooking and sesame oil was wafted to the noses of thoes beneath the plum tree, and
at length the skipper became uneing under the infliction.
**
“Look here, Mr. Merton," he said seriously, as we haven't got a Japanese dictionary of double-shotted diplomatic phrases calculated to kill a Japanese oook at a hundred yards, and as it would be a real pity to deprive the public of such savoury odours and appetising smells, I gnose we might just as well move on up the mountain and take our interpreters with me,"
This proposil found favour, and they left the inn, the geishe guiding them to where several single and double ricshas were waiting. Info one of the latter Morton and his lady love squeezed themselves, and the other two girls occupied a similar conveyance, the skipper bringing up the rear in a single, risho which was hardly roomy suough to accommodate bis long body, so bis legs were thrust out over the splash-board.
Over well-timbered hills and through beauti- fal dales their human horses or kuruma ya 85. they are called in Japan, bravely toiled at a steady jog trot which was varied by occasional sprints when going down au incline. The scenery was diversified and magnificent, and now and again glimpses of the harbour and its ship- pine were obtained through vistas in the dense foliage or when skirting the hillside by narrow tortnons patha.
Presently the rioshas rattled into a broad thoroughfare and drew up before an imposing archway through which numbers of people were passing. Here they allghted and the ladies. Ied them up several flights of stone steps to the templo of 0 Saws, or the Brouzs Horse, with its mess-grown roofs of thatch and its curtained shrings enhanced by the flitting forms of white-robed priests and adorned with rich
They now left the garden and passing along a broad terrace visited the beautiful Tample Grove with its lofty forest trees and thick undergrowth of semi-tropical vegetation. The rest of the afternoon
they 'spent “among the booths and chaias or ton-houses of the temple; and when the sun bad set und the moon had risen they turned their steps homeward with the rest of the holiday-makers.
Inover will rove where Roses dwell. My wings you view of your own bright hue And, oh! never doubt that my heart's teus blas. Though oft, I own, I've foolishly flown To peep at each bad that was newly blówn, I now have done with folly and fun, For there's nothing like constancy ander the
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