Sawt al-Mara — page 40

secret gleamed in hers; I could no longer master myself, and I sank down at her feet and hid my burning head in her lap, and remained so for a few

seconds, until I felt her ice-cold hand pass over my head, and heard her say in a sweet, melodious voice: "You must be virtuous!" Yes! I must be virtuous, and not betray the man sleeping in the next room, secure in his trust in the purity of my intent. So I sprang up and looked about me with relief... and the next thing I saw, she was handing me a book, and the next thing I knew, I was reading aloud from that book... I did not know what I was reading. The letters danced before my eyes. But the tempest lurking in my soul began to lift, little by little. And when twelve struck, and you came out with drooping, drowsy eyes, wishing each of us a happy year, the moment of sin and temptation had drawn far away from us and become as something of a distant, dim age. From that time on I have felt a relative calm. I became certain that she did not return my love, and that I should never have anything of her — nothing, save tenderness and compassion. The years passed, and age advanced upon us, but my love kept all the warmth it had had. I loved her still; but that love had risen above common desire to a chaste, deep love; it had ascended to the height of a virtuous spirituality.

You used to laugh when you heard us debating philosophical subjects — but did you ever divine how our two spirits had become no more than one single, all-embracing spirit? And there she lies now, a lifeless body... and perhaps not a year will pass before we have followed her into

A certain British factory, which until recently was manufacturing weapons of war, is producing children's toys in large quantities. It belongs to the Lines Brothers company, the largest firm in the world for the manufacture of toys and baby carriages, and the world is keen to import these toys, especially the mechanical ones. Large quantities have been made, destined for export to Malta, Copenhagen, South Africa, Natal, and other countries.

The company has obtained two factories from the government in Wales so that it can meet domestic

the world of eternity. That is the reason that moved me to unburden this secret at this hour, my comrade; so pardon me, and forgive my lapse... And he stretched out his hand to him imploringly. But his friend answered with coldness, spite, and guile:

— Bah! Drivel, raving, idle talk! A great deal indeed to forgive!!! This news of yours is old — very old. I have known it for an age. She herself told me all of it forty years ago. And now I want to tell you the reason that drove me to run after women — that road I traveled until I grew old and decrepitude showed upon me... The reason is that she told me, she herself — and he paused a little to recover some of his courage — she told me that you were the only man to whom she had opened her heart, and whom she had loved... The thinker started, and began to search his host's face in a fearful stillness... And there on the wall is the clock, ringed with a halo of pale light, whirring and striking twelve...

and foreign orders, and it will begin production in them within two months. Seventy percent of the baby-carriage output will be exported.

A thousand new carriages have been produced each week, and production is expected to increase in the future to 2,000 carriages in the same period. Children's bicycles of precise workmanship and bright colors, along with other mechanical toys, are being produced at the rate of five thousand toys a week.

Production of toy watches is expected to reach 40 thousand watches a day, and among the popular toys are "Jeep" cars no more than three inches long.

Mr. Angleson, the company's sales manager, says of the children's toys: "We expect to export 70 percent more of them than we exported before the war, and the only problem facing us is the problem of transport."