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The Story of Sui San
"Sayonara, Sui San."
"Sayonara," and Sui San slowly turned
and pushed aside the paper 'walls which
opened into her room. j
Together, Sui San and Wakasa had
watched the beautiful Oriental sunset. To
them nothing had ever seemed more
beautiful. VVakasa would have been will-
ing to sit forever by the wall and watch
with Sui San that great golden ball as it
sank slowly, slowly, and serenely to meet
the sea. There had been a moment when
both had held their breath, for it surely
seemed as though the disk of gold must
rest on the edge of the world for a while.
But the moment of waiting was soon over,
and the sun had resumed its journey
downward, shedding as it went a glow far
over the sea. Rose, gold, and blue of the
sky so intermingled and blended as to give
that touch of' beauty so often lost in the
clouds and haze which hem in our vision.
No steamer leaving 'its trail of smoke on
the horizon, a tell-tale of civilization, only
the broad, ribbed, wing-like sail of a jap-
anese junk silhouetted against the western
glow, and moving so slowly as to make
one wonder whether or not it was moving
at all-altogether ai picture so fraught
with calmness, with the poignancy of
beauty, that it was never to be erased
from the minds of these two.
'4Sui San, only tomorrow we shall be
sailing toward the very place where the
sun is sinking. You will be my wife and
we shall be starting on our long, long
journey to America. Tomorrow-tomor-
row-and then-" D, Q ' Q
j",Oh, yes, Wakasa, and shall we sail
from Yokohama?" ' I ,
"Yes,,dear, the arrangements are com-
pleted. i,W'e shall take the steamer from
Yokohama tomorrow afternoon, cross the
japanese Bay, go down to lXIanila, touch
at Singapore, go through the Suez, and at
last cross the great Atlantic Ocean and
reach America."
"Then, VVakasa, you may study. You
may become a great man: you may learn
of government, of the wonders of Ameri-
can ideals, and then after those few years
we will come back again to dear, dear
Aoyama. Is it not so, VVakasa?,'
"Yes, Sui San, it is all true. I shall
study. You shall have your own little
home and wait for me, until I have
learned how I may help my country.
Then we shall return to Aoyama, and
watch again just such sunsets as thisf,
The sun had dropped below the water.
The rose and gold of the sunset glow were
slowly changing, blending with the deep
blue to lavender, deeper still to purplish
gray, and now the twilight had come and
evening's quiet was settling down on the
sea before thern, and on the garden in
back. The great sail of the junk had be-
come almost invisible as its color blended
with the soft gray of the evening sky. The
first stars were pricking through the cur-
tain of the sky and night was coming
down, so softly, gently, and peacefully.
HI must take you to your door, Sui San,
and let you go in and have your rest. You
must sleep and dream of the pleasant new
countryito which you are going. Every-
thing is ready?
fcYes, yes, all is ready, and I am only
waiting for the morning to come. But
sleep, Vifakasa, sleep? I shall try to, but
no, I shall not sleep. I shall think, think,
and .wait for tomorrow. '
They walked through the tiny land-
scape garden, across miniature bridges,
through huge beds of chrysanthemums,
through a path, darkrwith dwarfed everf
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