my friend A. Q., and she used to call us "her soul's two sisters."

At last the court's judgment was handed down: the boy was to spend nine months of the year with his father and three months with his mother...

But the husband sent the boy with his grandmother to Cairo.

*

The Easter vacation came, and I intended to spend it at my sister's in Cairo. A. F. learned of my journey and said, "I am traveling with you." So we bought the tickets — there and back — and sailed on a Romanian steamer called the Bessarabia, which was making her first voyage to Beirut and on to Alexandria.

And I found myself, a second time, living with the tragedy of this woman, who never walked but that magic and enchantment walked with her — yet stripped of any spirit of "femininity" or spirit of allure... That was the riddle standing out in her glances, her talk, her silence, her impassivity. Often I would be asked:

— Does your French friend not know that she is beautiful? Do you suppose she despises "men," or that she looks with her eyes and sees no one?? Is she drowned in love of a husband or a fiancé? And who is this blessed, happy man??

And I would answer:

— My friend is possessed by the spell of a deep, deep love! But it is a love of which you men understand nothing...

In Heliopolis we stayed together at the house of my sister and her husband. Generous souls, Egyptians and Lebanese, volun-teered to search out where the boy was kept, to bring relief to the heart of that stricken mother. When they found him, she packed her little bag and went to Cairo to be near the boy and see him once or twice or three times, until our return on the steamer Bessarabia.

At the appointed time I traveled to Alexandria and went up on board to wait for my friend. I waited long on deck, staring at the passengers coming aboard. My standing there stretched on;

the sun set, and the electric lights began to blaze over the harbor; the sailors were about to raise the gangway, and the engines were snoring inside the ship — when suddenly my friend burst through the well-wishers standing on the quay and climbed the gangway. She was wearing a wide hat of soft yellow straw, its two sides drawn close to her ears by a broad ribbon of black velvet tied, aslant, beneath her chin, and a spring dress that left bare her arms, her neck, and something of her back and throat.

I hurried to the ship's entrance,

and she fell upon me and pressed me to her breast and said:

— Exactly like the cinema! Had I been two minutes late, I should have stayed in Alexandria.

The ship moved off, and the questions were piling up in my head, all but scorching my lips. Had she seen her little fair-haired idol?? Had she at least soothed her heart?? She took my hand

and drew me to the ship's deck, and we stood by the railing. She said:

— I went to where they had hidden him. I knocked at the door,

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