he bodice of her gown,
tossing the ivory figure contemptuously amid the fur.

"Ah!" repeated the yellow man in a different tone, and his eyes gleamed
with the flame of fanaticism. He slowly uprose, a sinister figure, and
with distended fingers prepared to seize Madame by the throat. His eyes
were bloodshot, his nostrils were dilated, and his teeth were exposed
like the fangs of a wolf.

But she pulled off her glove and stretched out her bare white hand to
him as a queen to a subject; she raised the long curved lashes, and the
great amber eyes looked into the angry bloodshot eyes.

The little yellow man began to breathe more and more rapidly; soon he
was panting like one in a fight to the death who is all but conquered.
At last he dropped on his knees amid the fur... and the curling lashes
were lowered again over the blazing amber eyes that had conquered.

Madame de Medici lowered her beautiful white hand, and the little yellow
man seized it in both his own and showered rapturous kisses upon it.

Madame smiled slightly.

"Poor little yellow man!" she murmured in sibilant Chinese, "you shall
never return to the Temple of Heaven!"

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