The mother-in-law laughed jeeringly.
"But—why you that angery, oku sama? If he is? You thing mebby he keer yaet for me? No! He got come an' fight. An' I lig jus' see him—if he come, of course. Me? I don' keer liddle bit!"
"Speak Japanese to me, madame!"
"Ah—ah—ah! Please aexcuse me. I 'most always forgitting. Sore-wa makotoni okino-do, oku sama."
The mother-in-law swept with threatenings from the room. For, as you perceive, Glory had continued to speak English in that laughing voice of hers, and then had protested that she was sorry for it! And she was not sorry, if we must have yet other commerce with the truth. And this was known to Madame Pine-Tree as well as to us, and she was the autocrat of that house. Glory was her humble servant as every daughter-in-law is.
II
"—THAT JI-SABURO MAY COME—"
War was declared. Sei-kwang had been fought and won. The Kowshing had been
