ftly to her.

And I was left alone--all alone, on this night.

* * *

I was all alone on this night--all alone on this silent, soft, warm,
early spring night.

I opened my window and looked out into the open, at the dark blue night
sky, and at the shimmering stars that were like brilliants. And I asked
myself:

"Is it then true? Is it then true?...

"Is it then true that I have lost my happiness--lost my happiness for
ever?

"Is it then true that with my own hands I took and burnt my wonderful
dream-palace, and let go from me the divine Queen's Daughter whom I had
myself bewitched, once on a time, years ago? Is it then so? Is it so?
Maybe it is not so? Perhaps I have come in time? 'I am come into my
garden, my sister, my spouse.'" ...

I sat at the open window for a long time on this night. And I exchanged
whispered secrets with the silent, soft, warm early spring night that
was full--strangely full--of secrets and mysteries....

On this night, I made a discovery--

That I loved Busie with that holy, burning love which is so wonderfully
described in our "Song of Songs." Big fiery letters seemed to carve
themselves out before my eyes. They formed themselves into the words
which I had only just recited, my father and I--the words of the "Song
of Songs." I read the carved words, letter by letter.

"Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals
thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame."

On this night, I sat down at my open window, and I asked of the night
which was full of secrets and mysteries, that she should tell me this
secret:

"Is it true that I have lost Busie for ever? Is it then true?" ...

But she is silent--this night of secrets and mysteries. And the secret
must remain a secret for me--until the morrow.

"Tomorrow," Busie had said to me, "we will talk."

Ah! Tomorrow we will talk!...

Only let the night go by--only let it vanish, this night!

This night! This night!

THE END

* * * * *

_NEW BORZOI NOVELS_

_SPRING, 1922_

WANDERERS
_Knut Hamsun_

MEN OF AFFAIRS
_Roland Pertwee_

THE FAIR REWARDS
_Thomas Beer_

I WALKED IN ARDEN
_Jack Crawford_

GUEST THE ONE-EYED
_Gunnar Gunnarsson_

THE GARDEN PARTY
_Katherine Mansfield_

THE LONGEST JOURNEY
_E. M. Forster_

THE SOUL OF A CHILD
_Edwin Bjoerkman_

CYTHEREA
_Joseph Hergesheimer_

EXPLORERS OF THE DAWN
_Mazo de la Roche_