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THE LOVE OF CHRYSANTHEMUM
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"VANCE— WE ARE WAITING FOR YOU. ARE YOU COMING
Remove the dust of travel as quickly as possible, and the exploration shall commence. ' '
He handed the suitcase over to a Japanese, and with a laughing warning to her to be quick, he turned again to his chair, but now the ennui had vanished. A sedan chair was coming down the road, the bearers advancing at a trot. As they drew nearer, he uttered an impatient oath for Chrysanthemum was leaning from the chair, her face aglow with love and welcome.
"You did not come," she reproached, as Redmond assisted her from the chair. I waited very long and then — I came. Was it very wrong?"
"It was not wise," he said, gently, and Chrysanthemum winced at the reproof in his tones.
"But you did not come," she reminded, "so it was that I must come to you."
"I was coming," he explained rapidly, fearful that Alice might
return, "but some friends arrived; I will come later — this evening."
' ' This evening ? ' ' she repeated. ' ' You will surely come?"
"Surely," he cried. "I will come to find you waiting by the chrysanthemums. ' '
Slowly she turned, and as she did so Alice Langley ran down the steps.
"Was I very long?" she asked archly, ' ' or was I too soon ? ' '
She glanced meaningly in the direction in which the chair had disappeared. Redmond colored.
"Not a moment too soon," he declared, ignorant that Chrysanthemum had halted her bearers and had stolen upon the hotel porch to listen jealously to what this "friend" might have to say. "It was just a little Geisha who has posed for me. I'll get my sketching kit and we'll start out."
They hurried into the hotel, and with trembling steps little Chrysanthemum crept toward her chair. He