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“Well, that agreement seems to set
tle it,” I i narked, tossing the paper
on the table. “We won’t have to fight
Japan.”
The ( lean-featured man beside me
frowned.
“More's the pity,” he said.
nooked sharply at him and, noUctn
his moody face, suppressed the smile
"Did you wjiTit n scrap with the
mikaduT* T asked.
" 'For an instant his eyes lit up, and :
then the glow died out and he gazed |
dreamily out of the window.
“No-n-o, I—I guess not,” he said, j
“It s best as it Is—perhaps. Yes—I’m
sure it is.”
We were snowbound in the little
hill town of Milan, Missouri, waiting
for the Quincy train to get out of an
eight-foot drift some forty miles east.
I had come over before the storm se
in to assist our claim agent in “fish
ing'' for some evidence from a score
or so of plaintiffs who hed the thrill
Ing expe ienoc of turning upside down
with a pass nger coach at Trenton.
Milan was a sort of division on th
little railroad, and my old friend, John
Montgomery, who was in the tele
graph service of the road, learning I
was in town, had hunted me up for
the sake of old days.
Although the features were still
clear and handsome, (he lusterless
brown eyes were not those of John's
—not the John ! knew. How well I
remembered the strong limbed young
fellow who 1 first knew as the reliable
chief dispatcher for the Continental
Western, with adquarteis at tip
large town of Dorchester. And how 1
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portions,
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•w out here in this hill vll
rt of helper to the dis
wage of about one fifth
formerly commanded. 1
ly at the flue face. It was
not that of a drinking
was something else
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Again the brown eyes, the eyes that
once spoke so eloquently and were so
piercing, flared up, and then the fire
died out, as it had before. He sat a
moment in silence, nervously chewing
a cigar which he had forgotten to
light.
"Do you remember Martha Des
mond?" lie said, abruptly.
"That, large, fine-looking girl who
played the piano at Spencer’s vaude
ville?” 1 exclaimed. “Sure, I do. Mar
ried?”
"No.”
He dropped into moody silence
again. Hut I was curious about the
matter, and I blurted it out:
"You and Martha were on pretty
good terms. I thought—”
"So did everybody,” he returned,
wearily. "It's my tragedy, Dick; they
all know it down there; that’s why I
left."
I didn’t ask any further questions,
because 1 knew he was studying up a
way to begin the story.
“1 always objected to her playing at
Silencer’s,” he said, “but she laughed
and told me there was nothing to fear;
that she knew howT to take care of her
self, and that what she made would
come in handy when we went to
housekeeping.
"Martha had chappies galore run
ning after until we had our little un
derstanding, and then she ran up the
black flag against every one of ’em.
And some were a blamed sight bettei
catches than a slave of a dispatcher.
In those days 1 was all to the good,
however, and didn't fear anything that
walked on two legs.
“Then came along the yellow peril."
At the grim jest John threw away
his chewed-up cigar, lighted a fresh
one and proceeded, with his face still
directed at the bleak landscape through
the hotel window:
"Komakichi something or other was
a mild-looking little chap of unknow
able age. A microscope wouldn't have
disclosed a wrinkle in his always
freshly-shaven face. His manner was
kind and affectionate. The matinee
girls made a great to-do over him, and
1^1 ‘ U Ci IV»1 iiikj IIUI i: i »> ttj D U -
cause he was a foreigner. I never
.. iid of his breaking over r 111
j'<s »rI ies I don i i- 1. >< in ci ever
:o«c ‘his thing if ihe encouragement
hadn't come from the other side.
' Komakichi uns a wire-walker and
lid some rather daring stunts on the
t rapeze.
"I remember how he interested me
the first time i saw him. While he
did hi:- tiirii Martha played a soft mel
;>Jy that was always a favorite or
—11 y d i! as if her whole sou!
. e ii. the playing. Yet I noticed lit
i'-red frequently to look at the Jap,
. i.. si camd to be shaking hands with*
1. n -rally every moment of his act.
"Mur Martha and 1 had become **n
■•! I ii d a dicker with Tom Jen I
. n , an irish Packman, to call for her
■ •very night after the show and drive
her home. 1 was on duty at night then j
iad couldn’t i lay th escort myself, and
felt perfectly safe with good old Tom,
whom 1 had known < ve-r sine. 1 was a
idil, ami who respects.d Martha about
:t;j man of his estate would respect
i!] gOgd.
\ th. night Tom came up into the
vi: -e I was trying to straight a.
at a mix-up on the east end. and
v.: i- d. hat in hand, for an hour b. fore
I c> uhl g f to speak to him. When
1 -aw l-i;a i looked up with a su i!e and
a pleasant remark, but Tom
was serious.
"Ml ;; Martha wouldn’t take me
k< rt o to-night, John,' ho said, in
e-.-t : 1 - able agitation. ‘She wint
j in-rie «i.,i thot hayihiu’. Alt' niver a
I wurru 1 did she sphv.ke wid me.’
The import of ifce thing came tc
me like the current that makes con
unction with a man whom the supreme
court had gon-i against. 1 dismiss -
Tom with some sort of a remark—
don't know what-—and turned to nr
train sheet. It was nothing but t
blur. For the life of me 1 couidu1
have told where a train was on th
division. 1 knew better than to tr
to Tool with the work any further tha>
night and on a plea of 8U'id-*n sickness
called one of the boys to my desk.
"1 never entered h oho- again as
dispatcher. Skipping the details o*
the next day, night found nte at Spen
cer’s. ’way up in front. Mur-in
glanced towards roe. V - vd silchtly
but never paid any further n 'tie ■ t
me. When the pe r .-••jcc ' rs ove:
I start* d to the side dc< r. and then
ehr,- , d my mind.
“I hung .ti-cuml town. d i.;; noth!:!-;
The railroad pTit a nr v r.,e.) in rn
place, and things went on v.c u-ual:
a piece of the machinery had wort
out and Iron repined: that -s a!!. I
will confe s 1 tcoa 'o b ar:
what was going cn h tv>- n the tv,
The thing ai peared ’ uiw ur
sonable ihat 1 hop, i r.vne light won.
eoRjo which would juviify in r- vk
ing to establish eld re cti ns. Thor
were plenty to lei’. One or two ha
attemi ted to speak to Martha aboil
her infatuation for tl e ribhut sh
had acted so imperiously that the;
were sorry they spoke.
“One day he got a i* : er front Japan
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grinned at anything mi l ovvyticng
but he told no one what the good news
was. Martha surmised it w: s a letter
from his sweetheart back home, and
began drawing off. It made no differ
ence to Komakiclri—he went on b inc
happy just the same. He laughed a!
through his acts and was constantly
kissing his hands like mad to the pen
ie. Of course a man wouldn't act like
.hat for any other reason except he
was in love, and Martha resigned her
position and stayed at home. The Jai
went to her house when this happened
nd made some explanation that ap
leased her. At any rate she kissed
him like—my God! Why do I tell you
his?
“My friend," Montgomery went on
solemnly, “you are the first man who
ver “heard all the ins ar.d outs of this
affair, and you will lie the last. When
1 have finished the vault door is scale1,
forever.
“Komakif hi went to his island home
carrying with him the love of my gir:
He promised to return for her if a!!
went well.
“Of course you and everybody in thr
world read of the assaults on Port Ar
thur and tlie frightful loss of life ou’
side the forts. Sushiyan, Long Moun
tain. Wolf Hill and Ftze Mountain
went into the hands of tlie terrible lit
tie brown men, and then came L’O"
Meter Hill. The capture of that forti
fication was the call of Gabriel tc
brave old Gen. Stoessel, but the Jap>
paid the price. Names of the dead
were not printed in American newspa
pers, unless they were of consequence,
or connected with some significant in
cldent. But a correspondent with the
mikado's troopers told of a Japanese
colonel who had led his men on the
final assault which resulted in the cap
ture of the fort, and how he had been
shot down as he had seized with his
own hands a rapid-fire gun and turned
it on the Russians. After fhe battle
Gen. Nogi directed the army to un
cover and stand at salute while the
coffin of the colonel was carried down
the lines for transportation back tc
Japan. The man to receive that dis
tinguished honor was Komakiehi, the
wire walker, the soldier of Japan.
They sent his sword to Martha, in ac
cordance with a direction he left.
“For some time I had hoped that a
war between America and Japan might
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help me to work off some of my feel
ings,” Montgomery went on, in an al
tered tone, “and then, again, I think
maybe, he was worthy of her, after
all. It's a funny world.”
He paused and looked across the
snow-covered hills.
“See here, John,” I said rising
‘this man is dead, and Martha, you
jay, is still single. Why not—”
"Excuse me, Dick,” he returned,
with a suggestion of his old imperious
less, "hut I am a little odd about some
hings. I couldn't smoke a cigar that
some other man's lips had touched. I'm
he same way about women.”
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