"Shaka!" breathed the girl, between laughter and fear.

"Did you wish it—what I did—said?"

"Lord," confessed the girl, "I wish to be as beautiful as the sun-goddess, so that you must—do—say—!"

She crept closer. It was as if she caressed the soldier.

ISONNA

IX
ISONNA

On another day Hoshiko asked:—

"Lord, must it be soon—now—that you die?"