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To Sing for Duce

moved

So they thought, throwing their weight on the end of their long by the fire. The white man

his outstretched legs a little. poles. The big canoe glided on "She breathes," said Arsat in a low swiftly, noiselessly, and smoothly, voice, anticipating the expected ques- towards Arsat's clearing, till, in a Lion. "She breathes and burns as if great rattling of poles thrown down, with a great fire. She speaks not;

she hears not--and burns!" and the loud murmurs of "Allah be praised!" it came with

He paused for a moment, then ask- a gentle ed in a quiet, incurious tone:

Tann, will sho die?"

Iknock against the crooked piles be- How the house.

0

The white man moved his shoulders uncasily, and muttered in a hesitating manner:

"If such is her fate."

The boatmen with uplifted faces shouted discordantly, "Araat!!

"No, Tuan," said Arsat calmly. "If Arsat!" Nobody came. The white auch is my fate. I hear, I see, I wait. man begun to climb the rude ladder

giving access to the bamboo plat-member

The

Tuan, do you TË the old days? Do you re- member my brother?" form before the house. The jura-

"Yes" said the white man Kan of the boat said sulkily. "We Malay rose suddenly and went in. The will cook in the sampan and sleep other, sitting still outside, could hear the voice in the hut. Arsat said: on the water."*

"Hear met Speak" His words were "Pass my blankets and the bas-succeeded by a complete silence." "O

Diamelen!" he cried suddenly. ket," said the white man curtly.

After that ery there was deep He knelt on the edge of the plat-sigh. Arsat came out and sank down form to receive the bundles. Then again in his old place.

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They sat in silence before the fire. the boat shoved off, and the white.

There was no sound within the house, man, standing up, confronted Arsat there was no sound near them; but who had come out through the low far away on the lagoon they could door of his hut. He was a man hear the voices of the boatmen ring- young, powerful, with a broad chesting &tful and distinct on the calm

water. and muscular arms. He had noth-

The Bre in the bows of the sampun ing on but his sarong. His head shone faintly in the distance with a bare. His big, soft eyes hazy red glow. Then it died out. The

voices ceased. The land and the water before her cunning and temper. And eagerly at the white man, slept Invisible, sintirring and but his voice and demeanour were t WHA

48 though there had been if she wanted her servant, what could But I fed the hunger of my composed as he asked without any nothing left in the world but the glit do?

Ler of stars streaming, ceaseless and heart on short glances and attalthy words of greeting:

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"Have you medicine, Tuan?" "No," said the visitor in a startled

The white man gazed straight, before the sun had fallen behind the forest I crept along the Jasmine hedges of Lore. "No. Why? Is there sick-nim into the darkness with wide-open ness in the house?"

"Enter and see," replied Arsat in the same calm manner, and turning am.short round, passed again through the small doorway. The white man. dropping his bundles, followed.

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In the dim light of the dwelling he made out on a couch of bamboos woman stretched on her back to

der a broad sheet of red cotton She lay still, as if dead; but cloth. her big eyes, wide open, glittered in the gloom, staring upwards at the alender rafters, motionless and un-! seeing.

She was in a high fever, and evidently unconscious.

yes. The fear and fascination, the the women's courtyard. Unseeing, we urpiration, and the wonder of death spoke to one another through the scent of death near, unavoidable and un-of flowers, through the veil of leaves, een soothed the unrest of his race through the blades of long grass that the stood still before our Hips: so great most intimate of his thoughts. and stirred the most indistinct,

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the was our prudence, so faint was

"The

Lime развед

The ever-ready that lurks in our

suspicion of evil, the murmur of our great oily, and ] gnowing hearts, flowed out into the stillness there were whispers amongst women --and our enemies watched-my round him-into the stiliners found and infamous, like the placid brother was gloomy, and I began to and impenetrable mask of an unjustifi-think of re of people who unike hut In that Aeeting and. We are of a take what able

werful disturbance of his being the they want-like you whites. There is

time when a enfalded in the straight peace inyalty

man should forget and respect. Might and became a shadowy

country of inhuman strife, a battibheld of phantoms ter. nuthority are given to rulers, but ta

all rible and charming, august or ignoble, men are given love and strength

the

courage. and posses.

"You shall take struggling ardently for

"My brother said, helpless hearts. An un- rion of Bur atiet and mysterious country of ines her from their midst. We are two who are like one.' And I answered. Her cheeks were sunk slightly. tinguishable desires and fears.

the Let it be soon, for I find no warmth A plaintive murmur rose in her lips were partly open, and on

and in sunlight that does not shine uponi the night

saddening a murmur the young

face there

startling, as if the great solitudes of her.

"Our time came when the Ruler and ominous and fixed expression--the surrounding woods had tried

to whin. absorbed, contemplating expressionner into his ear the wisdom of their the great people went to the mouth

tone.

Wis

the river to fish by torchlight. of the unconscious who are going to immense and lofty indifference. Sounds f

hesitating and

flonted in the air There were hundreds of boats, and on Vague The two men stood looking round him, shaped themselves

the white sand, between the water and die.

slov down at her in silence.

y into words; and at last flowed on the forests, dwellings of leaves were "Has she been inny ill?" asked the gently in a murmuring stream of soft built for the households of the rajahs.

and monotonous sentences. Be stirr. The smoke of cooking Bres was like traveller.

the evening, and many od like a man waking up and changed blue mist of the i have not slept for five nights," his position slightly. Arsat, motion-valces rung in it joyfully. While they!

came to me answered the Malay, in a deliberate Iss and shadowy, sitting with hawed were making the boats ready to beat;

"At first she heard voices head under the stars, was speaking in up the fish my brother

and said, "To-night! I looked to my and low and dreamy tome: water calling her from the

For where can we lay down weapons, and when the time come our of canon took its place in the circle our trouble in a struggled against me to hold her the heaviness of

A man must speak of boats carrying the torches. The lights But since the sun of to-day rose she friend's heart?

You, Tuan, know blazed on the water, but behind the. heare nothing she hears not me. war and of love.

She sees not me what war is, and you have seen me boats there was darkness,

"When the shouting began and the She seen nothing.

in Lime uf dunger seek death as other

like mad wo be exeltement made them men seek fel A writing may

swallowed --me!"

our fire, and we floated back to the thore that was dark, with only here and there the glimmer of embers. We could hear the talk of aluve-girls amongst the sheds. Then we found

He remained silent for a minute, lost; a lie may be written; but what dropped out. The water

the eye has been Is truth and remains then asked softly:

the mind!"

"Tuan, will she die?"

"I remember," said the white man,

"I fear so." said the white man quietly. Arast went on with mourn sorrowfully. years ago, in a far country in

when of trouble and danger. friendship is to be depised. since his Malay friend had unexpectedly to dwell in the hut on

He had known Areat{ful composure; shall speak to you of place deserted and silent. We waited

"Therefore times love. Spenk in the night. Speak

no before both night and love are gone And upon cane and the eve of day paks pay my for:

ed face; upon my burnt-up heart."

here. She came.

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"She came running along the shore,

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Ber hte lagoon with a strange woman, almost imperceptible pouse, and then

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"After the time of trouble and war from those people. You came to the He liked the man who knew how to was over and you went away from my cry of my heart, but my arms tako keep faith in council and how to country in the pursuit of your desires, you into my boat against the will of

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we had been before, the we Again. As He liked him, not so much, perswerd-bearers of the Ruler. You know many. We should have taken her in haps, as a man likes his favourite we were men of family, belonging to daylight. I said, 'Let us be off'; for a ruling race, and more at than any since she was in my boat I began to well dog, but still he liked him

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