ears hanging on those rings.

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On the shore, in the island's bay, an elegant yacht...

And in the house of "Kendy," a tall man, gray-haired, in an elegant white suit, and beside him "Ella":

— "Will he see, doctor?" said "Ella." And Dr. Steinbau answered her: "Can he recover his sight? He can!!"

"Kendy" lay stretched in his bed, his eyes bandaged... The doctor was looking at his watch; the time had not yet come to remove the bandages...

Ella said tenderly: "But you have not yet told me how you came here, doctor?"

Dr. "Steinbau" smiled and said: "I could not but come... My reputation was in danger... I learned from the captain of one of the steamers that someone had assumed my name and my profession and come here to treat a patient; after that, nothing remained for me but to come."

Ella's eyes brimmed with tears and she said: "Your coming is a kindness and a generosity on your part." The doctor patted her shoulder and said: "My coming deserves no thanks, my dear... I am on a cruise through the seas, and it is a pleasure for me to come here."

He went up to the patient and removed the bandages from Richard's eyes. "Richard" raised his eyes, trying to look, and it seemed to him that something of light was hovering about him... and that a sweet face was beside his bed... And his arms stretched out...

— "Ella...!"

— "Richard, can you see me..." And she bent down until her wet cheek touched his. — "Yes, my dear..."

She threw herself into his arms, weeping, and the doctor lifted her gently, saying: — "We must not excite his nerves!" She raised her eyes to him and said, sobbing through her tears:

— "Doctor, how grateful we are to you... Doctor, we are poor; we have nothing. We had a precious pearl, but it was lost to us — taken by the one who impersonated you..."

Her voice broke with weeping, and he patted her small shoulder and said with visible emotion: "Do not trouble your-self about the pearl, my little one; the gift of sight is more precious than all the pearls of the sea." — "But we must pay something, doctor."

And the bell was ringing above her in the palm tree... the little bell that "Ella" had hung to guide her husband... it was ringing in the wind, ring upon

ring. The doctor raised his eyes to the palm and said:

— "If it must be so, then give me this bell, to keep as a memento of this strange adventure. 'Richard' has no more need of it."

And Ella cried out... "The bell! The bell!"... and she went climbing the tree with wonderful lightness...

"Honer" was walking in the forest, hearing the bell ring from afar... and he was heading toward it, always toward it... with the ringing... Suddenly... suddenly "Honer" stopped in the middle of the forest, terrified: the sound of the bell had suddenly ceased... The winds were still blowing — so why had the sound of the bell stopped?

And he pressed on, falling, then crawling, and asking himself: why does the bell not ring... And the winds kept blowing, but the silvery voice that came from the palm tree with the bell rang no more....

Translated from the English writer

The National College

Choueifat – Lebanon

A secondary boarding school, which prepares its girl students for the London Matriculation examination, and for entry into the Junior College without examination.

Its educational and cultural mission has been known in all the Arab countries for sixty-four years.

It opens its doors on the sixth of October 1949, and accepts registration in its collegiate, secondary, elementary, and kindergarten departments daily, except Saturday and Sunday.

Ask for its prospectus from its president, Mr. Charles Saad – Choueifat – by telephone (4)