Chapter 23 No.23

Wash white the pages! In no book

Love's rule is written. Wherefore look

Not in my words for Flattery; nor dare

To claim me as thy rightful share.

Traced on my brow is Love--Fate wrote it there.

--Hafiz.

The gongs striking eleven roused her. She stood up and looked about her, feeling lost, forlorn; and lo! she was in a world of sta