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apparently but aroused the further curiosity and anxiety of Gonji. He
persisted, his voice becoming almost peremptory in tone.
“I condescended to ask you regarding the health of my family. You
do not answer me, good Kiyo-sama! Is there sickness, then, within
the shiro?”
“Iya, iya! (No, no!)” hastily protested Kiyo. “All is well. It is good
health within the shiro, praise be to the gods!”
Still his questioner noted something strange about the manner in
which the gateman avoided his glance. He studied old Kiyo curiously,
as though from his own sad reveries, in which he had been absorbed
to the exclusion of all else, he had been reluctantly aroused at the
thought of possible danger to his people. Gonji had hardened his
heart, as he thought, against the ones who were responsible for his
unhappiness—nay, who had deliberately cast forth a pure and
beautiful soul. Nevertheless, he experienced a sense of uneasiness
at the thought that all had not been well with them.
“Come,” he urged. “Do not hesitate to confide in your master,
good Kiyo-sama. Tell me the news, be it good or bad.”
“All is well. All is well,” almost sobbingly chanted the gateman. “I
pray you enter the shiro. There you will see for yourself.”
Gonji turned a bit uneasily toward the house, then halted abruptly.
“I read in your face,” he said, “a tale of some calamity to my
family. Already I know of my father’s glorious sacrifice for Tenshi-
sama”—bowing as he spoke the Mikado’s name—“for I was with my
father at the end. So if it is that—but no, there is something else
troubling you, Kiyo. I know you too well not to read your face. Is it
my mother?”
His voice broke slightly, and for the first time in years he was
conscious of a sense of tenderness toward his mother. She had been
the main source of all his misery; but she loved him. This Gonji
knew, despite all.
 Again Kiyo hastened to reassure him, this time eagerly and
proudly.
“Iya, master. Thy mother is in excellent health. Happy, moreover,
as never before, with the honorable Lord Taro, thy son, embraced
within her arms!”
The young man was staring at him now strangely. He seemed
unable to speak or move. A look as of almost troubled awakening
was in the face of Gonji. It was as if a thought, long thrust aside,
had suddenly recurred to him. During all these agonizing months,
when he had wandered about from city to city, he had been
possessed with but one idea—the finding of his wife. Now, suddenly,
the gateman’s words came to him as a very revelation. Strange that
he had not even thought upon this matter since he had left Japan.
He was a father!
“It is—possible!” he gasped. “I have a—”
“Son! Gloriously a son, master!” cried Kiyo, grinning joyously.
The young man continued to stare almost incredulously at the
gateman, but in his face was no reflection of the joy visible in that of
the faithful retainer. He was overwhelmed with the sense of a new
emotion whose very sweetness tore at his heart, and brought
unbidden tears to his eyes.
Suddenly, against his will even, there came vividly before his
mind’s eye a vision of Ohano as he had seen her last, crawling upon
her knees toward him and beating her hands futilely together, as she
besought him piteously to permit her to attend him through the dark
paths that led to the Lotus Land.
How the gods had comforted the unloved wife, was his thought,
and with it came a sense of overwhelming grief and bitterness that
they had not shown a similar charity toward the beloved Moonlight.
He pictured Ohano, cherished, protected, praised, within the
honorable house of Saito, with the long-desired heir of all the
illustrious ancestors upon her bosom. Then his mind reverted to the
wandering outcast, Moonlight, and a lump rose stranglingly in his
throat. As he made his way blindly toward the house, all the pride
and joy of fatherhood, which had uplifted him as on a flood but a
moment since, seemed to drop from him no less suddenly, leaving
him as before, hopeless, uncomforted, and utterly forlorn.
Within the shiro, the Lady Saito Ichigo sat drowsily swaying by the
hibachi, ceaselessly smoking, and muttering incoherent prayers for
the soul of her lord and for Ohano’s. She was very feeble, helpless,
and childish now. Her body had lost much of its vigor, and the
sternness which had once made her so formidable seemed to have
entirely left her.
Moonlight’s dark eyes rested upon her with an expression of both
pity and anxiety. Suddenly she pushed the little Taro along the
smoothly matted floor and whispered coaxing words into the child’s
ear. He crawled along several paces till he came behind his
grandmother. By grasping her obi at the back he was enabled to pull
himself to his feet. Now his chubby, warm little face nestled up
against Lady Saito’s neck. The pipe dropped from her mouth and fell
unheeded upon the hearth. She turned hungrily toward the child and
drew him passionately to her breast.
Outside the screens Gonji had paused, unable either to enter or to
retire. He had resolved, at whatever cost, to resume his forlorn
wanderings in search of the lost one, ere finally he should take up
the abolition of the Yoshiwara—a task which had seemed to be
assigned to him by the very gods themselves. But before going he
felt it to be his duty to have a last interview with his mother, and
with Ohano, the mother of his child!
Nevertheless he paused outside the screens, feeling unable to
combat the sense of reluctance and repugnance to joining that little
family he knew was within. How long he remained outside the shoji
he could not have told. He debated the advisability of withdrawing
without their knowledge of his presence. Kiyo would keep the secret.
So would Ochika, whose loud outcry at his advent he had quickly
silenced. Gonji felt sure his brief visit might bring merely unrest and
unhappiness. It would be kinder both to Ohano and to his mother to
go. As his resolve became fixed, he was swept with an anguished
longing and desire at least to see, but once, the face of the son the
gods had graciously given him.
With infinite caution, lest the sound might be heard by those
within, he began to scratch with his nail upon the fusuma, till
gradually he had made a small aperture, and to this he applied his
eye.
He remained motionless at the shoji. He saw, within, the toddling
child, as it made its swift way across the room toward its
grandmother; he heard the sob of his mother as she took the child
into her embrace; then he saw the face of Moonlight lifted alertly
and turned toward where her husband’s face was pressed against
the screen. She alone had heard, and, intuitively, had guessed the
truth. She came slowly to her feet, her lips apart, her wide eyes dark
and beautiful with emotion and excitement.
Suddenly the man outside the screens became animated with the
strength almost of a madman. He tore violently at the sliding wall,
crushing it into its groove. Now he was upon the threshold of the
room.
His mother screamed, hoarsely, wildly. But his glance went over
her head and by the little wondering child, who had crawled toward
him. Gonji saw nothing in the world save the face of that one who
had rushed to meet him.
It was much later that they told him of Ohano. At first the girl’s
sacrifice, for his sake and that of the ancestors, brought from him
only an exclamation of pity; he seemed unable to appreciate the
facts of the matter. There was no room for a shadow upon his
happiness now. They were sitting in the sunlight, that came in a
golden stream through the latticed shoji, piercing its way even
through the amado. They said little to each other, but upon their
faces was a radiance as golden as the sunlight.
Suddenly a tiny shape flickered across the outer wall. It seemed
but a moving speck at first upon the water-colored paper; but so
insistently did it beat against the wall that the family perceived it
was an insect of some kind.
Gonji arose and looked at it curiously, where it fluttered against
the outside of the paper wall.
“Why, it is a cicada—and at this time of year!” he said.
Lady Saito laid her pipe upon the hibachi and hobbled across to
her son’s side, and Moonlight and the little Taro pressed against him
on the other. They all watched the moving little shape outside with
absorbed interest and wonder.
“I dreamed of a cicada last night,” said Lady Saito, uneasily. “It
kept flying at my ears, whispering that it could not rest. It is a bad
sign. Open the shoji, my son. We can catch it with the sleeve.”
He pushed the screen partly open, and the cicada crept along the
lacquered latticed wall, beating its little wings and sliding up and
down.
Lady Saito slapped at it with the end of her long sleeve, but it fled
to the top of the wall. She beat at it with a bamboo broom, and
presently it fluttered down and fell upon the floor.
They all hung over the curious little creature, and as they
examined it an oppressive feeling of sadness crept upon them.
“How strange is this little cicada,” murmured Moonlight, troubled.
“See, one of its little wings is much smaller than the other.”
“It is a bad sign,” repeated the mother, gloomily; and she made as
if to step upon the little creature, when Moonlight grasped at her
arm and drew her back.
“Do not kill it! Do not kill it!” she cried, in sudden excitement. “Oh,
do you not see—it is Ohano, poor Ohano! She has returned to us in
this way. There is a message she wishes to bring us.”
Even as she spoke the cicada ceased its fluttering and lay very
still. A silence fell upon the Saito family. They were oppressed with
the sense of being in the presence of one dead.
 Said the Lord Saito Gonji, in a very gentle voice:
“What can it be my wife wishes? I would gladly resign my
happiness if I could but make easier the lot of Ohano.”
“She was always anxious about her next birth,” whispered his
mother. “Perhaps she desires a Buddhist service especially for her
spirit!”
Moonlight had tenderly lifted the little body and put it into a small
box.
“Come,” she said, simply. “We must set out at once for the temple.
The good priest will perform the Segati service, and we will bury
Ohano’s little body in the grounds of the temple. There surely it will
rest in peace!”

THE END
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