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It is not summer, but it will help you to make one. Diamond of the same size as the Ritz, F. John T. Unger Scott Fitzgerald had a family that was known as Hades small town in Mississippi, more than one generation. John's father was an amateur championships held almost all of golf heated battle, Mrs. Unger was known as the "hot box, hot bed" as the local expression of his political speeches, and young John T. Unger, who had just Sixteen were dancing all the latest dances in New York before the installation of long trousers. And now for some time, he was away from the house. In this context, education in New England, which the bane of the entire county, which runs its annual most promising young men, had seized her parents. Anything they see fit, but it should go to school in St. Midas', Boston-Hades was too small to hold such an expensive and talented son. Now, Hades, as you know, if you've always been there, the names of the school's most popular colleges and training very little sense. People were so long with the outside world, although they care demonstration costume and manners and literature, they rely heavily on rumors and function Hades is considered likely to be developed by a Chicago beef-princess welcomed as "perhaps a little nerdy." John T. Unger had immediately prior to departure. Mrs. Unger, Mom fatuity, packed his trunks full of linen suits and electric fans, and Mr. Unger presented his son with a bag of asbestos-filled paper money. "Remember no, you're always welcome, "he said." You can be sure that the boy, we heat the house. "" I know John replied hoarsely. "Remember, who you are and where you come from, "said the father proudly, and you can do anything harmful to you. You're Unger, one of Hades." Then the old man and a young shook hands and John walked away tears streaming from her eyes. Ten minutes later it had already left town, and he stopped to look back one last time. Over the gates of the old Victorian motto seemed to strangely attractive to him. His father had made several attempts he has become something of little use for more impetus to this issue as "Hades" My Opportunities "or simply" Welcome to the "handshake pricked out a sign for electric lights. The old motto was a little depressing, Mr. Unger thought, but now … So John took its appearance, and then set his face resolutely towards its destination. And he turned away, the fires of hell against the sky seemed full of warm and passionate beauty. School St. Midas half an hour of Boston is a Rolls-Pierce motor. The actual distance will never be known, because no one, except John T. Unger, never was there, except for Rolls-Pierce and probably we will never be again. St. Midas' is the most expensive and most exclusive preparatory school for boys in the world. John's, first two years have passed pleasantly. All Fathers the boys were money-kings and John spent his summers visiting Resort fashion. And he was very fond of all the boys he visited, their father was hit by so much the fabric of his childish and often asked how he its identity over. When he told them, if their houses were asked cheerfully, "pretty hot in there?" And John would collect a small smile and answer: "Certainly." His reaction would have been hearty, if they do not have all the fun is the best, it depends on is hot enough for you? "He hated just as much. In the middle of his second year in a school, a quiet, beautiful boy named Percy Washington had designed St. John's. The new comer was pleasant in its manners and well-dressed, even the Midas St., for some reason He was against the other boys. The only person with whom he was intimate was John T. Unger, but even as John, he was completely closed on his home or his family. He was a wealthy self-evident but spent a few such deductions John knew little of his friend, while the promised rich confectionery his curiosity when Percy invited to spend the summer at home "in the West." He agreed without hesitation. Only when they are on the train that Percy became, for the first time, more communicative. One day, when were having lunch in the dining car and discuss the imperfect characters of several boys at school, Percy suddenly changed the tone and made a sharp remark. "My father, he says," is by far the the richest in the world. "Oh! Said John, politely. He did not find any answer to that trust. He was," This is great, but it is hollow, and was in line to say: "Really?" but he refrained because it seems to issue a statement Percy. And such an astounding statement could hardly be questioned. "Since many the richest, "repeated Percy." I read the World Almanac, John began, "was the man for more than five million in income in America one year and four men with incomes more than three million euros a year and-"" Oh, this is nothing. "Percy was a half-moon of scorn foot." Worthless capitalists, financial, small fry, Lenders and small companies. My father could buy them and do not know he had done. "" But how can this "Why do not they make their income tax? Because he does not pay. At least he pays little, but it does not pay their real income. "It must be very rich," said John simply. "I'm happy. I love the people very rich. "Richer guy, the more I love." There was a look of passionate frankness upon their dark side. "I was Murphys-Schnlitzer Easter. Vivian Murphy Schnlitzer-Rubies was as big as chicken eggs, and sapphires that were like globes of fire inside the "" I love jewelry, "Percy agreed enthusiastically." Of course, I do not want anybody to school to learn this subject, but myself I used to collect them instead of collecting stamps. "" And diamonds, "continued John eagerly." Schnlitzer-Murphys was a diamond as big as nuts, "" This is nothing. "Percy had leaned forward and dropped his voice to whisper." This is nothing. My father was a diamond the same size as the Ritz-Carlton hotel. "II Montana sunset to see the two gigantic mountains, such as bruising, dark arteries which were spread poison in the sky. The immense distance between the under the sky crouched the village of Fish, minute, dismal, and forgotten. There were twelve men, they say, the fish in the village, twelve sombre and inexplicable souls who sucked milk lite rock, almost literally naked on a mysterious force, which resulted in a populatory. They were changed to breed fish in these twelve men, as some species have developed a whim at the beginning of nature, I thought that was fighting and destruction. Out of the blue-black bruise is the distance crept a long line of moving lights despair Twelve men on the land and the fish Ghosts slum check the train at the station for seven hours, Transcontinental Express from Chicago. Six once or twice a year, some of the Transcontinental Express unthinkable competent to try the village, and when it happened or what this number to leave to climb the stupid, which always appeared outside the Twilight of the West began bruised. The observation of this phenomenon has become a sort of useless and meaningless religious men in the fish. Make sure that everything was, it was none of these important quality of an illusion which would be a miracle, or to speculate, if not the faith may have grown around these mysterious apparitions. But the fish had lost all faith in men, strict principles and wildest Christianity could be good to get some point of reference for the barren rock, which was not the altar, no priest, no sacrifice, but every night at seven the silent Contest submission by the slums, the church, which caused a wave of prayer, a miracle anemic. That night in June filibuster the Great, as if someone had deified, they could choose their heavenly sign, had ordered that the train Seven hours should be left to the human (or inhuman) deposit fish. After two minutes, seven Percy Washington and John T. Unger leave used Spellbound, Agape, horrid Twelve men in the eyes of the fish, mounted on a stroller, which had apparently occurred, and chased them away. Half an hour later, as dusk was coagulated by the silent black negro, who Trolley drove opaque body somewhere welcoming their shadows before. In response to his cry, they appeared luminous disc, which they are considered evil eye unfathomable night. As they drew closer, John saw that it was the tail-light of the large car, bigger and more beautiful than anything he had ever seen. His body was shiny metal richer than nickel and lighter than the core of the wheels were full of silver and iridescent green and yellow geometric figure John did not dare to guess if they are glass or gem. Two negroes, dressed in bright livery, one sees pictures of royal processions in London, stood at attention next to two young men got out of the car and stroller were greeted in the language, that the host did not understand but it seemed an extreme form of Southern negro dialect. "Get in," said Percy to his friend as they were thrown into the trunks ebony on the roof of the limousine. "Unfortunately, we had to introduce the measure of the cart, but of course did not train people for a man or a Godforsaken fish that car. "For God's sake!" What a car! "This exclamation was caused in its interior. John saw that the upholstery consisted of one minute, mile and fine tapestries woven with silk and jewels, embroidery and cloth of gold to put in the background. The two armchair seats in which the boys strutted were coated fabric, which resembles the duvetyn, but seemed woven of myriad colors The ends of ostrich feathers. "What a car!" Cried John again, that amazement. "This thing?" Percy laughed. "Why, it's just the old stuff, which we use to break down. "By the time they were slipping into the darkness to the rupture of two mountains." We will be there for an hour and a half, "said Percy, looking at the clock. "I can also say that this is not to be like nothing you've ever seen." If the car is the slightest indication of what to see John, he was ready to be surprised indeed. A simple piety prevalent Hades are sincere to serve and respect the first article of his creed of wealth in John knew that, otherwise bright humble before them, their parents away in horror at the blasphemy. They had come to them and a break from the two mountains and almost immediately became so much stronger. "If this looked like a month, you'll see that we have a deep ravine," said Percy, trying to look out the window. He spoke a few words on the mouthpiece and immediately switched footman, and the search light swept the mountains, where it is very fast. "Rocky, you see. Normal car would be broken into pieces a half – time. In fact, the tank would move if you do not know. You will notice that we are now." They obviously increased, and within minutes the car was crossing a high place, where they caught glimpse of a pale moon newly risen from the hotel. Cars stopped unexpectedly and several figures took shape in the darkness next to him, these were negroes also. Again, the two young men were vaguely recognizable as a dialect of the same salute, the negroes set work and four immense cables dangling above Wheel hubs were attached to hooks that large gems. In resounding "Hey-yah!" John felt the car which grew slowly bottom-up and clean up the biggest rocks on both sides, then higher, until he can not see small waves, in the valley that lay before him, Moonlight in stark contrast to the difficulties they were rock just left. This is on one side, there is always a rock, and then suddenly did not have the stone beside them or anywhere around. It was clear they had surmounted some immense knife-blade stone, perpendicular to the design of the air. The moment they went again, and eventually they landed on the ground gently with a soft bump. "The worst is behind us," said Percy, squinting out the window. "This is just five miles from here, and our own Brick Road all the tapestry. It is ours. This is the place where the U.S. ends, his father said. "We are in Canada?" We do not. We are middle of the Rockies in Montana. But you are now only five square miles of state land which has not been studied. "" Why not? Did they forget? "" No, "Percy said with a smile," that they tried it three times. For the first time in my grandfather's second trial violated the State Department whenever He was the official U.S. maps which have been tinkered with for fifteen years. The last time was difficult. My father fixed so that their magnetic compasses fort was never artificially created. It was a number of surveying instruments made a small mistake to allow this area is not, and he was replaced by those who would use them. Then he came to the river channel, and it was what appeared to built their own village banks that they would, and I thought it was a town ten miles upstream from the valley. It is one thing that my father's fears, "he concludes," One thing on earth that could be used to find us. "" What is it? "Percy sank his voice a whisper." Airplane, "he breathed." We is a half-dozen anti-aircraft guns and we have conducted so far, but there have been few fatalities and a number of prisoners. Not that we remember that, you know, my father and I, but disruption of mothers and daughters, and there is always a chance that some time we can not fix it. 'shreds and tatters is a chinchilla, courtesy clouds in the sky, green were passing the green moon like precious fabrics of the month to check a parade in East Tatar Khan. It seemed to John that it was the day, and was watching some guy flying above he air, raining leaflets and circulars of the patented drugs, with their messages, desperate hope, Rockbound hamlet. It seemed he does not look down and watch and see the clouds, that there was a look at where he went, what then? Do they have brought the country to any other device that crafty immured far from patent medicines and writing until the day of the trial, or if they do not fall into the trap, made a quick puff of smoke and a strong cycle of the split shell bring them drooping of land and "disturb" Percy's mother and sisters. John shook The spirit of his head and a hollow laugh issued silently parted his lips. How desperate the transaction was hidden here? What moral sense is a bizarre Croesus? What a terrible secret, and gold? . . . Clouds drifted past Chinchilla was now outside the Montana night was clear as day. Tapestry Brick Road was a smooth tread tires are rounded to the large Moonlight is still a lake, they ran into a dark moment, pine grove, pungent and let cool, then they came to the broad avenue is grass and is St. John's exclamation of joy at the same time Percy taciturn "We're at home." Whole in the light of the stars, fine ch_teau increased lake, climbed in marble radiance close to half the height of the mountains, then thawed grace, perfect symmetry, in translucent feminine languor, into the dark forest, Dense pines. Many of the towers, slender tracery and the sloping parapets, engraved with thousands of miracle yellow rectangles and triangles of its windows and a light golden sweetness hectagons broken planes intersect Star Shine, and blue shade, all trembled as the spirit of John chord of music. On the one towers, the biggest, blackest of its base, an arrangement of exterior lights at the top of the floating port, and John had to Faint Enchantment acciaccare warm sound with violins drifted rococo harmony that was like nothing he ever heard of before. Then, in an instant, the car stopped in front of the scope, high marble steps around which the night air was scented with a lot of flowers. Top of the stairs, two large doors swung silently open, and amber light flooded the darkness, silhouetting indicator of fine black lady with hair piled high, which was proposed out his arms towards them. "Mother," Percy was saying, "This is my friend, John Unger, from Hades." Then John remembered that the first night mist many colors, prints fast sensory, soft music, voice of love and beauty of things, lights and shadows, and motions and faces. There was a man standing whitehaired drink warm colored crystal set gold lace bar. There was a girl in flowery face, dressed like Titania sapphires embedded in her hair. There was a space in which solid, soft gold walls by the pressure of his hand, and the room that resembles the Platonic concept of the final lens of the ceiling, floor, and it was all lined solid mass of diamonds, diamonds of all sizes and shapes, until, lit with purple lights high angles, the whiteness Dazzle your eyes, that could be compared only to itself, in addition to human desire or a dream. Through the maze of these rooms, the two boys wandered. Sometimes, the land under their feet to the flame lighting models, the bright colors of the models below the face of a cruel delicate pastels, clear, white, or subtle and intricate mosaic, surely from a mosque in the Adriatic Sea. Sometimes, all layers of thick glass, shaking it would be blue or green water, inhabited by a lively fish and tumors of the Rainbow foliage. He would then walk the fur of any color or texture and along the corridors of pale ivory, without interruption, carved from mammoth tusks as a complete dinosaur before the age of rights … Then, the transition, and vaguely remember it was a table, where each disk had two almost imperceptible layers of solid diamond between which was curiously worked filigree design of Emerald, shaving sliced green air. Music, loud and quiet, drifted down the corridors by far his chair, feathered and curved insidiously his back, seemed to overwhelm and defeat him, because he drank his first glass of port. He tried to drowsily to answer a question that was asked, but the honeyed luxury that clasped his body added to the illusion Sleep, jewelry, textiles, metals, and wine blurred before his eyes, gently mist … "Yes, he replied with a polite effort," is certainly hot enough for me there. "He managed to incorporate ghostly laughter, then, without movement, without any resistance, he seemed to float out and away, leaving the shiny pink dessert is like a dream … He fell asleep. When he awoke, he knew that several hours had elapsed. He was a quiet room for a large ebony walls and dimmed lighting that was too weak, too small, which is called light. His young host was standing in its permanent over. "You've fallen asleep at dinner," Percy said. "I almost do not, it was such a treat to be comfortable again after this school year. Staff undressed and bathed you when you were asleep. "" Is it a bed or a cloud? "John sighed." Percy, Percy, before leaving, I apologize. "" Why? " "Discredit you when you said that you had a diamond the same size as the Ritz-Carlton Hotel." Percy smiled. "I thought that you do not believe me. It was a mountain, you know." What the mountain? "is based on the Castle Mountain. This is not very high mountain. But, about fifty feet of sod and gravel on top of it diamond.One solid diamond, one cubic mile without a mistake. Do not you listen? Say: "But John T. Unger had again fallen asleep. III in the morning. As he awoke, he perceived drowsily that the room was at the same time The way the sun. Panels ebony wall had slid aside is some kind of story, leaving his chamber half open on the day. Big nigger is a white uniform stood beside his bed. "Hello evening, inviting John muttered the brain of wild places. "Hello, sir. Are you ready, a bath, sir?" Oh, there is no reason, I bring you, if you just open their pajamas there. Thank you, sir. "John made his pajamas, was quietly returned, he amused and pleased, he should be raised if the child is black Gargantua and Pantagruel who tends him, but nothing like this has happened instead, she felt the bed rocking slowly to the side, he began to roll, startled the beginning towards the wall, but when he came to the wall its drapery gave way, and sliding down the slope beyond the flocculent two meters he plumped gently into the water the same temperature as the body. He looked around him. Rollway or runway, where he had come was a carefully folded into place. He was thrown to another room and sat on his head sunken tub just above the ground. Around him, lining the walls of the room and the walls and bottom of the bath itself was a blue aquarium, and gazing through the crystal surface on which he sat, he could see fish swimming among amber lights and rolling, even without curiosity past his outstretched toes, which were allocated to the thickness of the crystal. From the above, the sun descended on the green sea glass. "I think, sir, that you'd like hot rosewater and soapsuds this morning, sir, and perhaps At the end of the cold salt water. "Negro was standing beside him." Yes, agreed John, smiling inanely, "As you go." Any idea of ordering this bath according to its meager standard of living would be pedantic and not a little wicked. negro pressed the button and a warm rain began to fall, apparently from the top, but really, if John has discovered a time to plan for the fountain nearby. The water turned a soft pink color and the liquid soap is nozzle springs, four miniature walrus heads the corner bath. An instant, a dozen Small wheels that are mounted side was churned a mixture of radiant rainbow and pink foam slowly enveloped with delicious lightness, and burst in shining, rosy bubbles here and there around him. "When I start the machine moving film, sir?" Recommended that the negro deferentially. "There is a good comedy disc can be placed in the machine or the date of room for a difficult moment, if you want. "" No, thank you, "answered John, politely but firmly. He took advantage of their desire to part of the excessive attention to all aside. But distraction came. The moment he heard the sound just outside the flutes, flutes ripping a melody that sounded like waterfalls, fresh and green, the room itself, accompanying a frothy lace Piccolo weakest in the game for us to be covered and charmed him. Bracer After the cold salt water and cold fresh finish, he went and a wool coat and a sofa covered with the same equipment, it has been rubbed with oil, alcohol and spices. Later, he sat voluptuous chair while he was shaved and his hair had been cut. M. Percy waiting for his room, "said the negro, when these transactions were completed." My name is Gygsum, Unger, sir. I must see Mr. Unger every morning. "John walked in the bright sunlight in your living room, where he found breakfast waiting for him and Percy, gorgeous in white leather pants, smoking lounge. IV This is the story of Washington John Percy sketched during a family breakfast. Mr. Washington, in Virginia, father of the current, a direct descendant of George Washington and Lord Baltimore. At the end of the civil war, he was twenty – Colonel played five years with an output of nursery stock and thousands of dollars in gold. Fitz-Norman Culpepper Washington, who was in the name of a young colonel, decided to bring the Virginia estate to his younger brother and Go West. He has selected two dozen of the most faithful blacks, who, of course, prostrated themselves before him, and bought twenty-five places in the West, where he planned the purchase of land in its name and start a sheep and cattle. Montana when he was less than months and things are going very badly indeed, he stumbled his great discovery. He had lost his way, and after the hill where the driving days without food, he began to grow hungry. Since he was without his gun, he was forced to continue with the squirrel, and a continuation of that, I noticed that he had suffered something shiny in its mouth. Immediately prior to the disappearance of his hole, as Providence does not intend that this squirrel should reduce the appetite, it dropped its load. Fitz sit reviewed the situation in the eye is caught by Norman lighten the grass beside him. Within ten seconds he had completely lost my appetite and got a hundred thousand dollars. Squirrel, who was constantly embarrassing refused to receive food, gave him a large and perfect diamond. Late in the evening, he found his way to the camp and twelve hours later, all men between the negroes had returned to her squirrel hole digging furiously at half mountain. They said that they had discovered the wealth of rhinestones, and one or two of them have never seen even a small diamond before, they believed, no doubt. When the magnitude of its discovery, it became clear to him, he found himself in distress. The mountain was a diamond, it is literally nothing but solid diamond. He performs four saddle bags full of shiny samples, and started on horseback for St. Paul. There, he managed to have half a dozen small stones as he sought greater storekeeper fainted and Fitz-Norman was arrested on a public disturber. He fled jail and took the train to New York, where he sold a few medium-sized box, and received in exchange about two hundred thousand dollars in gold. But he did not dare to produce extraordinary gems in fact, he went to New York just in time. Great excitement was created by the Community, jewelry, rather than the size of the squares of the city to appear mysterious sources. Wild rumors was the current that a diamond mine was discovered in the Catskills on the coast of Jersey, Long Island, below Washington Square. Excursion trains packed men picks and shovels, started to leave New York, at the time of the various near El Dorado. But at that time young Fitz-Norman was his way home to Montana. At the end of fifteen, he found a diamond is a mountain of almost equal amounts of the rest of the world famous diamond. There have not been evaluated on a regular basis the calculation, but because it was a solid diamond, and if it was offered for sale not only in the bottom fall out of the market, but also, if the value should be different from that of the normal size of an arithmetic progression, there would not be enough gold to buy one tenth of the World party. And what could be done by a diamond its size? It was an amazing situation. It was in some sense the richest man who ever lived, and it was still worth something? If his secret should transpire there was not, how the government could be used in order to avoid panic, gold and jewelry. They would treat the request immediately, and to institute a monopoly. There was no way: the market for its mountain secret. He has sent his younger brother and the South made him responsible for the color black, that they will never understand that slavery was abolished. In order to ensure they read the announcement was composition, which announced that General Forrest had broken into the army conquered the south and north of the battle. Negroes believed him implicitly. They adopted a resolution declaring a good thing, and found revival services immediately. Fitz-Norman himself went abroad, one hundred thousand dollars and two suitcases filled with diamonds of all sizes. He traveled to Russia, the Chinese junk, and six months after his departure he was from Montana to St. Petersburg. He took obscure the presentation and asked the jeweler to court immediately after the announcement that he was a diamond for the Czar. He remained St. Petersburg, was murdered two weeks of constant danger, maintenance and presentation of the submission of their fear of suitcases for more than three or four times throughout the two weeks. its promise of revenue per year increasing the fine he was allowed to leave the stones for India. Before leaving, however, Treasurers Court of the United States had deposited their instruments of credit in the banks, the amount of fifteen million dollars in four different pseudonyms. He returned to America in 1868, after a little over two years. He had visited the capitals of the twenty-two countries and met with the five emperors, eleven kings, three princes, Shah Khan and the Sultan. At the time, Fitz-Norman estimated his wealth of one billion dollars. One thing has always worked against the disclosure of his secret. None of his more diamonds remained in the public eye for a week before investing in the history of death, love, revolutions and wars of having occupied the first days of Babylonian empire. From 1870 until his death in 1900, the story of Fitz-Norman Washington was a long saga of gold. There were problems, of course, he disposed of studies, he married a lady in Virginia, he was only son, and he was forced due to accumulation of events, to kill his brother, whose unfortunate habit of drinking himself into indiscreet stupor had several endangered if their safety. But very few other murders stained happy years of success and expansion. Shortly before his death, it changed its policy, and all but a couple of million dollars in its wealth outside the back rare minerals in bulk, in which he moved the safety vaults of banks all over the world, celebrated bric-a-brac. His son, Braddock Tarleton Washington, followed by a policy of more intensive scale. Minerals were the rarest of all elements of radium into the equivalent of one billion dollars for the Gold placed in a container no larger than a cigar box. When Fitz-Norman was dead for three years, his son, Braddock, decided that the company did not go far enough. The quantity of wealth, that he and his father had left the mountain, after all of the exact calculation. He kept the Notebook, which she figures the approximate quantity of radium in each of thousands of banks protected and record the alias under which he was held. Then he did something very simple, it closed the mine. It is closed to me. What has been born outside it supports all Washington's unprecedented luxury for generations. His only concern should be to protect its secrecy, panic attendant to this discovery, should be reduced by all property owners in the world in absolute poverty. It was a family, among whom John T. Unger was staying. It was a story he heard his silver-walled living room the day after his arrival. V After breakfast, John found that his great marble entrance way and looked curiously at the scene before him. The whole valley, the mountain steep granite diamond rock five miles away, still had a breath golden haze which hovered idly above the fine sweep of lakes and lawns and gardens. Here and there clusters of the Elms delicate groves of shade contrasting strangely difficult to masses of pine forest found that the mountains in a handful of dark-blue-green. Even John looked he saw three fawns in single file about half a mile lap from the thicket, and excitement will be lost in awkward half black striped light to another. John was not surprised to see goat-foot piping his way among the trees or a glimpse of pink nymph fish skin and yellow hair flying between the greene green leaves. In some such cool hope he descended the steps of marble, which is slightly disturbing dream of two Russian wolfhounds, and silky to the left along the promenade and the north of the white brick and blue, that seemed to bring in any direction. He was enjoying himself as much as possible. He welcomed the young and the failure of which could never live in the present, but it must always be possible on the day of its flowers to imagine a bright future – and the girls and the gold stars, they are only prefigured and prophecies of its incomparable, unattainable young dream. John rounded corner, where a soft mass of roses filled the air heavy perfume, and removed the foam pad under the trees in the park. He had never slept in the foam, and he wanted to whether it is really soft enough to justify the use of the adjective in its name. Then he saw a young girl approached him with grass. It was Kaunein woman he had ever seen She had wearing a short white dress, which was slightly below his knees, and blue sapphire crown mignonettes Join slices of her hair. Her pink bare feet spread before them as the dew he came from. He was younger than John, no more than sixteen years. "Hello," she said softly, I Kismine. "It was much more than that to John already. He approached his, barely moving as he drew near he would otherwise stand on tiptoe barefoot. "You have not been met, said her soft voice. He had blue eyes, said:" Oh, but you missed a lot! "…" you've met my sister, Jasmine, yesterday evening. I was sick to the poisoning of salad, "he said, his voice soft and eyes to continue, and if I am sweet and sick when I'm fine. "You have made a huge impression of me," said the eyes of John, and I did not slow me " – "How can I do?" Said the voice. "I hope you are better this morning." – "You darling," he added eyes, trembling. John observed that they had walked along the road. His proposal, they sat on the grass, sweetness, which he did not identify. He was critical about women. Single fault, a thick ankle, hoarse vote, enough to make a glass eye quite indifferent. And here the first time in his life, he was next to the girl, who seemed the embodiment of physical perfection. "Are you from the east?" asked Kismine more charm. "No, John said simply." I'm from Hades. "Has he never heard of Hades, and he could not comment nice to think about him, because he has not yet been discussed. "I'm going East to school this fall," he said. "You think I love him? I'm going to New York, Miss Arden's. This is a very tough weekend, but you can see, I'm going to live at home with his family at home in New York because his father had said, that girls should go walking two by two. "" Your father wants to be proud of, "said John." We have, he replied, eyes shining with dignity. "Nobody we have never been punished. My father said that we should not have. When my sister Jasmine is a girl, she pushed him to the bottom, and he just got up and limped away. "My mother was well, a little surprised," Kismine later, when he announced that you were, so you come, you know. He said that when he was a young girl, but then you see that he is Spanish and the old-fashioned ". Do you spend much time here? "asked John to hide the fact that he was a little error in the statement. It seemed derogatory reference its parochialism. "Percy and Jasmine and I are here every summer, but next summer Jasmine Newport. He goes to London in the autumn of one year. It must be presented to the court. "You know," said John hesitated, you're much more complicated than I thought you were when I saw you? "Oh no, I do not," he said hastily. "Oh, I do not think so. I think young people are tremendously experienced in common, is not it? I'm not at all, actually. If you say, I cry." He was so worried that his lip trembled. John was compelled to protest: "I do not want to I do not want to say tease." "Because I would not mind if I were he continued. But I do not None. I am very innocent and childlike. I never smoke or drink, or read anything other than poetry. I do not know much mathematics or chemistry. I dress very simply, In fact, I barely clothed. I think the complex is the last thing you can say about me. I believe that girls should have their young healthy way. "Me too," John said, in the heart. Kismine was gay again. He smiled, and still-born tear dripped from the corner of his eyes blue. "I love you," she whispered, intimately. "Do you spend all your time, Percy is available at the time, or what you are to me. Think-ı'm completely clean surface. I've never had a boy who loves me throughout my life. I never even allowed to see boys alone, except for Percy. I got it all here in the grove, I hope to meet you, if the family is not around. Deeply flattered, John bowed from the hips, as he had taught dance in the school Hades. "We 'd better go now," said Kismine gently. "I should be with his mother at each other. You asked me to kiss you once. I thought that the boys have always done it today. "John stood up proudly." Some of them, he replied, "but not me. girls, there is no such thing Hades. "Besides, they walked towards the house. VI, John was faced with Mr. Braddock Washington in full sun. The oldest was about forty face with a proud and meaningless, intelligent eyes, and strong body. In the morning, and he knew the horses, the horses better. He had suffered Stick gray birch floors, with a single large opal for a catch. He John Percy, and showed a ring. "Areas slaves here." His cane to his left, missing the monastery of marble that ran in graceful Gothic side of the mountain. "My youth I had some time to interfere with the affairs of life through time absurd idealism. In the meantime, they lived in luxury. For example, I equipped each room with its own bathroom plate. "I think John ventures with ingratiating laugh, "they used to keep coal in Bathtubs Schnlitzer, Mr. Murphy said that if it is," "views, Mr. Murphy is Schnlitzer its great importance, I imagine, "interrupted Braddock Washington, cold." My slave does not have coal in its bath. They had orders to bathe every day, and they have done. If they did, I did not order the acid sulfuric acid shampoo. Bathroom for some reason I left. Many of them have been caught cold and died. Water is not good for certain races, with the exception of a beverage. John laughed, then decided to nod his head in agreement with the sober. Braddock Washington him uncomfortable. "All these blacks are descendants of my father brought north with him. There are now about two hundred and fifty. You know they have lived in the outside world for so long that they become almost indistinguishable from the origin of the slang dialect. We some to speak English, my secretary, and two or three servants in the house. "This golf course," he continued, as they were walking on the lawn velvet winter. "It's green, you see the fairway, no, no, no severe risk." He smiled pleasantly John. "Many men in the cage, father?" Asked Percy suddenly. Braddock Washington stumbled and let out involuntary curse. "Minus one, as it should be," he ejaculated dark, and then add the present: "We there have been difficulties. "Mom said to me," cried Percy, that "the Italian teacher," a terrible mistake, "said Braddock Washington angrily." But, of course, is a good opportunity for us to be in May Perhaps he fell somewhere in the woods or stumbled over the cliff. And then there is always a chance that if he does not get his story would not be believed. However, I had two dozen men looking for him in various cities around here. "And luck? "Some. Fourteen told my agent, that they had killed every man of this description, but of course there was no doubt that the fees they are after, "He paused. They came from the large pit in the soil around the circumference Merry-go-round and covered with a strong iron gate. John Braddock Washington beckoned, and pointed his cane down through the grate. John developed the edge and looked. Immediately his ears were assailed by the noise from the wild. "Come On Down to Hell!" "Hello, dear, how the air up there?" Hey! Throw us a rope! "" You have an old friend or a donut a couple of sandwiches with the other hand? "" Say, kid, when pressed for the Guy with you, we'll show you the scene fast disappearing. and paste the one for me, okay? "It was too dark to see clearly into the hole, but John could tell from the optimism and vitality of the difficult terrain and explanations of votes, assumed that the American middle class is still nice guy. Then Mr. Washington put out his cane and touch button in the lawn and in the light of the scene below sprang. "They are adventurous sailors, who were unhappy to discover El Dorado, "he said. Below them showed a large hole in the ground inside the bowl-shaped. The party was probably sudden and polished glass, and its slightly concave surface of about two dozen men dressed in costumes half of half of uniformed airmen. Nose in the air, illuminated by the anger and Malice, in which the desperation of a cynical sense of humor, were covered with tumors and long beard, but with the exception of a few who had languished significantly below, then seemed to be well-fed, very good. Braddock Washington led lawn chair and sat on the edge of the sky. "Well, How are you doing, boys?" He asked kindly. execration which all joined the chorus, with the exception of too few dare to scream Sunny rose into the air, but Braddock Washington heard of unruffled calm. When the last echo had died away, she spoke again. "Have you thought about the solution to your problem? Here and there among them a rose note. "We have decided to stay here for love!" "Give it to us and we will find the way!" Braddock Washington waited until they were quiet again. Then he said: "I told you that the situation is. I do not want you here. Is the sky that I never saw you. Your Curiosity you've arrived here, and any time you can think of a way that will protect me and my interests, I'm happy to review it. But as far as to restrict their efforts to dig out tunnels, yes, I know you a new beginning, you will not get very far. It is not as hard as you can with your cries and relatives at home. If you have any type of who are concerned about the many loved ones at home, we would never have been in aviation. "Long man next to the others, and raised his arm to draw attention to her abductor, what he says. "Let me ask you some questions!" he cried. "You pretend to be a fair man." "How absurd. How can a man my position is fair to you? You can also speak Spanish to be fair, that piece of meat. "We face two dozen Praed observation is dropped, but big man continued: "Okay!" he cried. "We've argued this before. You are human and you are not fair, but you're a person, at least say you, and you should be able to Put yourself in our place long enough to think about how-not-not "-" How to? Washington has asked coldly. "- How to use -" "Not for me." "Well, how cruel -" "We have seen. Cruelty does not exist when self-preservation is involved. I had the army, you know. Try another. "" Well, it's stupid. "" No, "said Washington," I give you. But try to think about alternatives. I have been offered full or in part, you painless life, if you will. I did say to his wife, who loves children and mothers kidnapped and brought here. I see you up there and feed clothes for you and the rest of their lives. If there was some farming permanent amnesia, I have all acted and immediately released, but some of my jam. But this is as far as my Thoughts go. "What do you say that you trust us not to fish?" Shouted some one. "You do not provide that recommendation seriously," said Washington, with an expression of contempt. "I did not leave a man to teach my daughter in Italy. Last week, he fled. Wild cry rose joy suddenly, two dozen of the larynx and happy pandemonium followed. Butcher the prisoners clapped and danced, and fought with each other and burst yodled animal spirits. They even ran up the side of a glass bowl if they could, and landed at the bottom cushions of the physical body. A large man started a song, which they all subscribed – Oh, we Hang Kaiser on the sour apple Braddock Washington sat in silence until the song had ended immeasurable. "You see, he said, if he can earn attention." I I hope that you are not ill will. I would like to see that you enjoy yourself. That's why I will not say no history. Male-What was his name? Critchtichiello? Were killed, some of my officials of the fourteen different places. "Does not believe that such places were in towns and cities, and the tumult of joy subsided immediately." However, "cried Washington touch anger, "he tried to escape. do you expect me to take risks, any of you experience this way?" The second series of ejaculations increased. "Secure!" Will – your daughter like to learn Chinese? "" Listen, I do not speak Italian! My mother was wop. "It might be t'learna talk N'Yawk! "If the big guy with blue eyes, I did not teach him much better than Italy." I know that some Irish songs and I could hammer brass once't. "Mr. Washington suddenly came forward and pressed the button sugar cane grass, so that the picture below, and went immediately to the left with a very dark mouth covered dismally black the teeth of a tooth. "Hey!" one voice called from below, "You Is not Goin 'Away without Givin' us the blessing?" But Mr. Washington, followed by the two boys walked up already about the ninth hole Golf, like the sky, and its contents are not likely to easily find just the iron. VII July Lee is a mountain in diamond under a month's deck and hot nights, hot weather. Kismine and John were in love. He did not know that the little gold football (written with the Legend Pro Deo Pro Patria and St. Midas), which he had given it rested on a platinum chain next to his chest. But he did. He in turn knew that a large sapphire, which fell one day her hair just St. John's casket placed tenderly. After lunch, the music room where Ruby and ermine was calm, they spent an hour there together. He raised his hand and he gave him such a He murmured her name out loud to view. She leaned towards him, then hesitated. "You said," Kismine? "he said softly," or "He wanted to sure. He thought he was wrong. None of them had never been kissed before, but over an hour, it seemed to make little difference. In the afternoon away. That night, if the last breath of music, which remains below the highest tower, they all lay awake, dreams are lucky enough to keep record of the day. They had decided to marry as soon as possible. DAY VIII Mr. Washington and two young men go hunting or fishing in the deep forests or played golf around sleepy, of course, games including John allowed his host to win diplomatic or swimming in the Gulf of Mountain Lake. John found Mr. Washington very demanding person, very interesting thoughts and opinions that have. Mrs. Washington was a distant and reserved at all times. She was apparently indifferent to his two daughters and completely absorbed by his son Percy, with whom he has been endless conversations rapid Spanish at dinner. Jasmine, the older daughter, Kismine similar in appearance, except for a slightly bow-legged, big hands and closed and feet, but it was quite unlike his temperament. His favorite books to do with the poor girls who kept house widowed father. John Kismine learned that Jasmine never return from the shock and disappointment he felt the end of World War II, because it was the starting point for the dining room where an expert. It was even a time, and Braddock Washington had taken the measures to promote a new war in the Balkans, but he had seen a photograph of some wounded Serbian soldiers and lost interest in the dispute. But Percy and Kismine seems to be pretty arrogant attitude towards all its harsh magnificence of his father. Smooth and selfishness as the model ran continuously through each idea. John was enchanted ch_teau miracles and the valley. Braddock Washington, so Percy told him, landscape gardener had been kidnapped, the architect, the designer and French decadent poet left over the last century. He put all his strength at the disposal of negroes ensure all materials that the world can offer and let them work on some of their ideas in the raw. But one by one, they have shown their sense. Decadent poet had now begun bewailing his separation boulevards, in the spring he made some vague remarks about spices, apes, ivories, but said nothing that was no practical value. The designer wanted to hand the whole valley, a number of tricks and sensational effects, a situation that Washington will soon be tired. And if the architect and landscape gardener, they believe only in terms of the agreement. They must do so in this way and that way. But at least they had solved the problem of what to do with them, they are all gone insane one the morning after the night in a room trying to agree on location and the fountain is now confined comfortably insane asylum Westport, Connecticut. "But John said inquisitively "who do not plan for all its excellent reception rooms and halls, and approaches, and the bathroom?" Well, "replied Percy, I blush you say, but it was a moving picture of Guy. He was the only man we found who used to play unlimited money, although that Tuck napkin into his collar, and could not read or write. "As August drew completed John began to regret that he should be back to school soon. Kismine and he had decided to flee after June." It would be nice to get married here, " Kismine acknowledged, "but of course I was never able to get permission to marry the father. Beside that, I'd prefer not to flee. It's horrible for people to marry wealthy American Today, they still send bulletins to the press to say, they marry the ruins, as they say it is simply used to tease the old Beaded and lace worn once by the Empress Eugenie. "" I know, "John agreed wholeheartedly." When I was visiting Schnlitzer-Murphys, the eldest daughter, Gwendolyn, married a man whose father has of West Virginia. He wrote home to say what a hard fight, he was secretary of the bank deals with its own salary, then he finally said, "I thank God you, I have four daughters good anyway, and it helps little. "Nonsense," said Kismine. "Imagine the millions and millions of people all over the world and all employees who can, with only two maids. "One afternoon in late August, the opportunity to comment Kismine have changed the whole situation John and threw in another terror. They were his favorite grove, and between kisses John was indulging in some romantic forebodings which he thought added poignancy to their relations. "Sometimes I think we will ever get married, "he said sadly." You're too rich, too beautiful. Nobody is rich, as you may be like other girls. I have a daughter to marry well-to-do man Equipment Wholesale Sioux City or Omaha, and his only half a million. "I knew that the daughter of a man once said, the bulk Kismine." I do not believe that you were happy with it. He was a friend of my sister. He has visited here. "" Oh, you were the other guests, John exclaimed surprise. Kismine seemed unfortunate his words. "Oh, yes," he said quickly, we had a few. "" But you're not, your father was not afraid to talk about them outside? "" Oh, to some extent, to a certain extent "he said." Let's Talk something pleasant. "But John's curiosity was raised." Something fun! "Does he asked." What is disgusting? They were not a nice girl? His surprise Kismine began to cry. "Yes, th-that's all Is issue. I grew qu-quite attached to some of them. So Is Jasmine, but she kept INV-viting them anyway. I could not understand. "Dark suspicion was born in the heart of John." Do you mean they told me and your father was kidnapped? "Worse than that," he murmured Jerky. "My father did not take the opportunities and Jasmine kept writing come, and they had such a good time! "It was a paroxysm of pain exceeded. Stunned with the horror of this revelation, John sat there stunned, feeling the nerves of his body twitter like so many sparrows perched behind her. "Now I am told that I should not have," he said, calming suddenly and drying her dark blue eyes. "Is you mean that your father was killed before their departure? "He shook the head." typically early in August – September. It is natural that we can all enjoy them that We first "." How abdominais! How, why do I have to be crazy! Do you admit that – "I did," interrupted Kismine shrugging his shoulders. "We can not be captured very well the same as Aviator, where they had to be constant complaint for us every day. And it has always been easier for Jasmine and me, because his father had done earlier than expected. In this way we avoid the farewell scene, "" So you murdered them! Uh! "Cried John." It was very good. They were drugged at the time of they sleep and their families have always said that they were dead scarlet fever in Butte. "" But I do not understand why you keep the invite! "" I'm not, "burst Kismine. "I've never called one. Jasmine did. And they have always had a great time. He had to give them the best gift to the last. I'll probably be too visitors To harden it. We can not allow this thing to death to stand the inevitable way to enjoy life, although we have it. Think how lonely here would be if we never had one. Why is my mom and the father has sacrificed some of their best friends as we are. "" Yes, "cried a young prosecutor, and if you let me make love to you and pretending to return and talk about marriage, all the time, knowing very well that I will not leave here alive "" No, "he protested vehemently." No, not now. I not at first. You were here. I could not help that I thought that their days may be pleasant for both of us. But then I fell in love with you, and I am sincerely sorry that you are currently organized, although I'd rather you put away than ever kiss another girl. "Oh you are?" John yelled furiously. "Much rather. Moreover, I have always heard that the girl might be more fun to a man he knows he can never marry. Oh, Why did I tell you? I'm probably wasting their time in a good overall now, and we were really satisfied with things if you do not. I knew that it would make things sort of depressing for you. "" Oh, you did, did you? "John voice trembled with anger. "I have heard enough. If you do not have more pride and decency, and having something which is not a man known far better than the dead body, I do not want to be with you! "" You are dead, "she protested in horror." You do not stiff! I do not want to say that I kissed corpse! "I said something!" You do not! I am saying that I kissed corpse! "" I'm not! "Their voices rose, but both fell suddenly disturbed the silence now. Footsteps came down the road towards them, and a moment later, the roses were separately displaying Braddock Washington, whose intelligent eyes set her pretty face was gazing with an empty them. "who kissed corpse?" he asked, it is clear condemnation. "Nobody Kismine responded quickly." We were just joking. "" What are you two doing here anyway? "He said, stern tone." Kismine, it should be reading or playing golf, his sister. Go read! Go to golf! Do not let me find you here when I'm back! "Then he bowed and went to the path of John." See? "Said Kismine mood, when he was out of hearing." You have destroyed all. We can never achieve more. He will not let me meet you. Do you have a poison, if he thought we were in love. "We have not, either," said John furiously " so that he can put his mind at rest. It also does not make a mistake, so I'll stay here. To six hours, I'll be in the mountains when I chew them, and the passage of I through to the east. "They both got their feet, and this observation Kismine half and put his hand through it." Me, too. "" You gotta be crazy, "of course I am, "he cut to." You are definitely not. You "" Very well, "he said softly, with his father now and we will tell him. "John took part in strike weak smile." Very good, good friend, he agreed, with pale and unconvincing affection "we go together." He love your back and quietly settled in his heart. It was his, he would go with him to share their risks. He put his hands and kissed her passionately. After all, she loved him, he was saved, actually. Under discussion, they walked slowly towards the ch_teau. They decided that, since the Braddock Washington had seen together, they were the best fly the next evening. But John's lips were extremely dry dinner, and he nervously emptied a large spoonful of peacock soup into his left lung. He had to carry a turquoise waters of the Sable Island and the card room and hammered on the back sub-servants, including Percy as a joke. John IX, long after midnight, the body's nervous leapt and he sat suddenly upright, staring into veils and somnolence, which was hanging in space. At the intersections of the dark had their windows open, she heard the faint distant sound that died wind bed, before determining its own memory, clouded with uneasy dreams. But a sudden noise that had succeeded it was nearer, was just outside the room, shot the mouse button, step in a whisper, he could say, hard lump gathered his whole body ached and the pit of the stomach is the moment that the pain is strained to hear. But one of the veils seemed to dissolve, and he saw a vague figure stood by the door, one little limned and blocked in the darkness, mingled thus folds of the fabric, which seems distorted, it is considered reflection black pane of glass. With a sudden movement or fear of a resolution to impose on their night John and moments later he sat in the Green sunken tub in the room, woke up to shock complacent cold water and half full. He rushed outside, and his wet pajamas thin scattering of heavy water behind him, ran to the door aquamarine which he knew led to the ivory landing on the second floor. The door opened silently. Crimson single lamp burning of a large dome over the great sweep of lit stairs carved poignant beauty. John hesitated a moment, shocked at the close of the silent splendor around him, seeming to envelop in its gigantic folds and contours of the figure dipped a lonely little shaking on the floor of the ivory. Then two things happened at once. The door of his room, opened the door, throwing the three negroes naked room, as John swung wild terror half a stairway, another door slid back onto the wall and John saw Braddock Washington in the image of an illuminated lift, wearing a fur coat and pair of riding boots, which reached the knees and the brightness of the colors shown above, pink pajamas. At once, three negroes John had never seen before, and this head, that they must have the professional executioners paused in their movement towards John and expectantly to the man lift, which came with an urgent command: "Come here! All three! Fast hell!" Then, just three negroes darted into the cage, in the light of the rectangle is released, that the lift door slid closed, and John once again alone in the room. He fell slightly against the ivory stairs. It was clear that something bad occurred something that we are now at least, had to be postponed to a small disaster. What was that? It was revolted negroes? Aviator was forced from the iron bars and gates? Or were the men stumbled blindly through the fish mountains and gazed approved, joyless eyes Valley seer? John did not know. He heard a slight hum as the air lift, whistled again, and then moments later he came down. It is likely Percy to rush to help his father, John, and it happened that this was his chance to join the Kismine and evacuation plan immediately. He waited until the elevator was silent for several minutes, shaking little fresh whipped into the night through his wet pajamas him back into his room and treated quickly. Then he mounted a long flight of stairs, and pushed corridor lined with Russian sable, which increased the Kismine. The door to my room was open and the lamps were lit. Kismine in angora kimono, stood near a window in the bedroom listening attitude, and as John entered noiselessly she turned towards him. "Oh, it's you!" He whispered, crossing the room to him. "Did you hear that?" I I have heard they are of your father-"" No, "she interrupted eagerly." Airplanes! "aircraft? Maybe it was a noise that woke me. "There are at least a dozen. I've seen a moment ago, died on the Moon. Guardrail along the cliff face and the shot is fired, the furious father. We will open it immediately. "Are they here for?" "Yes, that Italy, who was away:" At the same time, it is his last word fell through the cracks consecutive sharp open the window. Kismine uttered a little cry, dig your fingers in a box on his dresser, and ran one electric lights. Ch_teau as a whole was a dark moment, he was blown fuse. "Well, she told him." We will rise Roof Garden, and check it out! "Drawing keep him, he took her hand and they found their way to the door. This was a step in the elevator tower, and when he pressed the button that shot them upward he put his hands around in the dark and kissed her mouth. Romance came to John Unger at the end. Minutes later White returned to the platform. Misty Moon Above all slipping and then patches of clouds swirling below the wings, floated a dozen dark body, of course, constant circling. Here and flashes valley of fire leaped towards them, followed by sharp detonations. Kismine clapped their hands with pleasure, which later turned to outrage at the time that was previously agreed upon the signal, began to publish their bombs and the whole valley became a panorama of the depth of its reflected light and pale. Soon after the attackers have focused on the objective of the places where anti-aircraft guns were located, and one of them was almost immediately to reduce the smoldering ashes in the park is located in a giant rose bushes. "Kismine" John said, "You delighted when I say that this attack took place on the eve of my murder. If I have not heard that a guard firing a rifle, I should now go back to the stone Dead – "I do not hear you, "cried Kismine, intent on the stage before him." You have to talk louder! "I just told you," cried John, we'd better get out before they start to bomb ch_teau! "Suddenly, Portico of negro quarters of the cracked Asunder, geyser of flame rose from under the portico and the High fragments of jagged marble was thrown at the borders of the lake. "This is a fifty-thousand dollar slaves," cried Kismine "price war. So some of the Americans do not respect property. "John renewed his efforts to force him to leave. The aim of the aircraft was just two minutes, and minutes, more accurate anti-aircraft the weapons were still revenge. It was clear that the garrison, encircled by fire, was not able to withstand much longer. "Come on!" John yelled, grab his hand Kismine "We need to go. Do you realize that they are doubtless Aviator kill you if we find you?" She agreed reluctantly. "We need to wake up, Jasmine, "he said, as they rushed towards the lift. Then he added a kind of childish joy:" We want to be a bad thing, is not it? Like many books. And I'm rare and absolutely free. Free and poor! What fun! "He paused and increase joy kiss her lips." It is impossible to have both together, "said John gloomily. "People have found it. And I would choose to be free is better in both. As added carefully, you better empty your jewelry box in his pocket." Ten minutes later, two young girls met John in the dark corridor and they descended the main floor of the ch_teau. As for the last time, luxury rooms are beautiful, they stood a few moment on the terrace, watch the burning negro Quarts and flaming embers of two airplanes that had fallen over the lake. A single weapon was kept popping sound and attackers seemed timorous about descending lower, but sent a fireworks Thunder circle around him until all the stray ball can be destroyed in the Ethiopian team. John and two sisters who passed the marble steps, turned left and began to rise sharply in a narrow path that wound around like garter Diamond Mountain. Kismine knew of a strong forest-Spot tee, where they can hide more to monitor wild night in a valley, at last, to escape, it should be necessary, as well as the secret passage, deposited with the rocky ravine. X It was three o'clock when they reached their destination. Forcing and phlegmatic Jasmine fell asleep as soon as the body relies on a long tree, even though John and Kismine sat down, his hand in his around and watched the ebb and flow of a desperate battle to die among the ruins of Vista is the garden spot that morning. Shortly after four hours of the last gun had ringing sound, and the left fast action tongue red smoke. Although the moon is down, they saw that the bodies of flying closer to the earth. When the planes were certain that the defenders did not have additional resources They manage the land and the dark and bright in Washington would be finished. The closure of the firing of a quiet valley. Embers of the aircraft were two eyes shining like a monster lurking in the grass. Ch_teau was dark and quiet, beautiful, dark as it had been a beautiful sunny, but the woody rattles filled with air, and over the Nemesis crescent and are fleeing the complaint. Then John perceived that Kismine, where his sister had fallen asleep. It was long after four when he became aware of the path they followed in the footsteps, and waited quietly until the breath of persons whom they were spent, it employed a more favorable position. There is some noise in the air now that it is not of human origin and the sauce was cold, he knew that morning would quickly break down. John waited for the activities have reached a safe distance in the mountains and it was inaudible. Then he drove. Halfway steep summit the trees fell away and the hard saddle common diamond host rocks below. Shortly before reaching this point he slowed his pace, informed the sense that the animal life was there just before him. Soon, he raised a large stone have gradually over the edge. His curiosity was rewarded: what he saw: Braddock Washington was standing there motionless, silhouetted against the gray sky without sound or a sign of life. As the morning came from the east, lending a green and cold land, he made a single indicator, however, insignificant day. While John watched, his host remained absorbed in contemplation at the moment is incomprehensible, then motioned the two negroes who crouched between his legs to lift the load. As they struggled upright, the first yellow beam of sunlight struck through the prism of countless large and finely engraved with a diamond and had lit a bright white flash in the air as the fragment of the Morning Star. Carriers distributed under their own weight at the time, then caught in their bulging muscles and the skin moist and hardens under the glow of three digits were again motionless in its defiant impotency before the heavens. After a moment the white man slowly raised his head and raised arms to gesture, as one who could make a large crowd to hear, but it was not the crowd, but the silence of mountains and A slight decrease in bird interrupts the sky among the trees. The drawings saddle stone began to speak ponderously and with inextinguishable pride. "I am there," he explained that the shaky vote. "You, there!" He stopped, arms always raised his head carefully than waiting for a response. John strained his eyes to see if there might be men fall mountain, but the mountain is bare of human life. There was only sky and mocking flute of wind along the treetops. Washington may be requested? For a moment, John is sought. Then the illusion of forward, There was something the whole attitude antithetical to pray for people. "Oh, you there!" The voice became stronger and confident. This was not a desperate prayer. If anything it was the quality of monstrous condescension. "You there" Words, too quickly uttered to be understood, flowing into each other … John listened breathlessly, catching sentence here and there, although voice broke down, started back again, now strong and argumentative now painted a slow puzzled impatience. Then, the conviction is began to dawn on a listener's understanding and crept over him as soon as the stream of blood rushing through your veins. Braddock Washington had offered bribes to God, it was was not in doubt. Diamond in the hands of his slaves, some in advance of the sample, followed by the promise of more. That, John perceived after some time was the thread of his sentence. Prometheus has been enriched wearing a witness forgotten forgotten ritual sacrifice, prayers become obsolete before the birth of Christ. For some time, his speech consisted of a gift or to remember that God Divinity had deigned agree with the men in the churches, it would be nice if the city rescue the plague, gifts of myrrh and gold, of human life and beautiful women, and armed prison, children and queens, wildlife of forest and field, sheep and goats, harvests and cities, the land conquered, which was completely and blood lust, his appeasal the buying value of MEED and the relaxation of the divine wrath Now, he Braddock Washington, Emperor of Diamonds, king and priest, golden age, an arbitrator and splendor and luxury, would give a fortune to princes before he ever dreamed of suppliance is offering up to, but pride. It would be to Allah, he says, see the descriptions of the world's largest diamond. This diamond is cut, much more than the pages of a multi-faceted pool as a whole is still a diamond shaped stone of perfection is not more than fly. Many men would work on it for years. It would be a huge dome, and was beaten gold, wonderfully carved Crusted ports and equipped with a sapphire and opal. Hollowed in the middle of the chapel would be chaired by the altar iridescent, decomposing, ever-changing radium burn the eyes of faithful, who raised the Prayer and head altar, she puts the victim's death, entertainment, divine benefactor He should choose, although it should be the largest and most powerful man. In return he asks only one simple thing thing, because God is just ridiculously easy, that the case should be as they were yesterday, the hour, and must remain so. So easy! Okay, but the heavens open, swallowing these men and their aircraft, and close. Make slaves again to restore the people's lives and property. There was no one with whom he had never needed to deal or negotiate. He asked if he had his only big enough pot. God had his price, of course. God has made a picture of a man that he was told he must have its price. And the price is rarely any cathedral, the building consumed many years, it is not the pyramid was built by ten thousand workmen, would be the cathedral, this pyramid. It stops here. It was his proposal. All descriptions and have nothing to tame his assertion that it would be good to the price. He suggested that Providence could take or leave it. As he neared at the end of his sentence was broken, became short and clear, and his body seemed tense, seemed strained catch the slightest pressure or whisper into his living space. His hair was gradually turned white as he spoke, and now he raised his head high as the sky of the ancient prophet perfectly okay. Then, when the John followed the charm of dizziness, it seemed a strange phenomenon took place somewhere around him. It was as if the sky was darkened now, as the soul would not be a sudden gust wind, sighing as far from the trumpets sound and the rustle of silk dress with a great character around in the dark at the time of the cycle has ended and the birds, trees, and there are still far from the mountains, there Mutter was one of the boring, threatening thunderstorms. That was all. Wind died in the high grass along the valley. In the morning, and resumed his life at the time of the day, and sent hot waves of Sunrise yellow fog that gave way to gloss it. Leaves from the sun and laugh at their laughter shook until each tree branch was like a school girl charm. God had refused to bribe. Another moment of John I watched the triumph of the day. Then, turning he saw a flutter of brown near the lake, then another flutter, then another, since Dance of the Golden Angels descend from heaven. Planes came ashore. John slid off a rock and clump of trees will be running for the Mountain, where the two girls were awake and waiting. Kismine jumped up, pockets rattle your jewelry Questions parted lips, but instinct told John that there is no time for words. They have to descend the mountain without losing time. He grabbed each arm and in silence they threaded the fruit strains, Wash light and now the fog is rising. Behind them, the valley was no sound at all to appeal to peacocks and a pleasant voice this morning. If they had done about half mile, they avoided the park land and entered the narrow road that leads to the next place in the field. The highest point they stopped and turned. Their eyes were fixed on the mountain, they were just left in the dark impendency oppressed by a sense of tragic. Clear against the sky a broken man with white hair slowly down steep slopes, followed by two huge negroes and emotionless, which the load between them still glittered and flashed the sun. Half of the two other parameters associated with them, John was able to see them in Mrs. Washington and her son, whose arm he leaned. Airmen had risen from their machines to scan the front lawn is ch_teau, rifles in hand and began the formation of diamonds Mount sharpshooters. But a small group of five, which was set up, and away to an enchanting rock ledge to the observers were terminated. Negroes, and stooped to draw, which seemed to be a trap door to Mountain. In this, they are all gone, a man with white hair and then his wife and son at the end of two negroes, the vertices of sparkling jewels, including head-dresses caught the sun just before the door descended and engulfed everything. Kismine John grabbed their hands. "Oh," he said wildly, "where they are and what they do?" There must be some way access to land "in its auction of the two girls interrupted sentence." Do not you see? "Kismine crying hysterically." mountain is wired! " Even if he told John to put his hands to defend their position. Before his eyes the whole surface of the mountain had suddenly become a dazzling burning yellow, which showed through the envelope of turf as light shows through a human hand. Unacceptable to continue to glow for a moment, and then it disappeared off the filament, revealing damage to black, so blue Smoke rose slowly, taking with him what remained of vegetation and human flesh. Airmen, this was no blood or bones, they are consumed as completely as five souls who had gone inside. At the same time and a great concussion, ch_teau literally threw himself into the air, pieces of bursting into flames as it rose, then fell on himself heap of smoking, which was taken at the lake side of the design. There was no fire, smoke was drifted off mingling with the sun and some more minutes powder in a large pile of dust of marble drifted from the concession that was once home jewelry. There was more noise, and three people were alone in the valley. SUNSET XI John and his two companions reached the a large stone, which was mentioned in the boundaries of dominance in Washington and looking back was quiet and beautiful valley late at night. They sat down to finish the food Jasmine had brought him to the basket. "No," he said, he spread the cloth and put the sandwiches are a nice pile on. "Do not they see the attraction? I always think that food tastes better outdoors." This note, "said Kismine" Jasmine enters the middle class. "" Now, said John eagerly, turn your pocket and see what jewelry you have. Once you've made a good choice of the three we can live comfortably the rest of their lives. "Perfect Kismine put his hand out of his pocket and threw two handfuls of glittering stones before him." It is not so bad, "cried John enthusiastically." They are not very large, but Hello! "His change the word, because he was one of them to fall in the sun. "Why, they are not diamonds! Nothing!" "God, Kismine explained with a startled look." What a fool I am! "" Why are they rhinestones, " said John. I know. "He laughed." I opened the wrong drawer. They belonged to dress a young girl who visited Jasmine. I made him give them to me in exchange for diamonds. I've never seen anything but precious stones before. "" And what do you make? "" I'm scared. "It concerned a brilliant nostalgia." I think that, as the best. Soon I am tired of diamonds. "" Very good, "said John gloomily." We have to live in Hades. And you grow old tells incredulous You got the wrong drawer women. Unfortunately, the bank his father's books are consumed with him. "" Well, what is the matter Hades? "If I go to my wife of my father's age are equally responsible to cut themselves to demonstrate the coal, as they say there. "Jasmine spoke up." I love washing, "he said quietly. "I always wash your handkerchiefs. I'll get the laundry and support you both." Are they washerwomen in Hades? "Kismine asked innocently. "Sure," replied John. "This, as well as elsewhere." "I thought that maybe it was too hot in clothing costs." John laughed. "That is precisely what try! "he suggested." They'll run out before the party started. "Is the father to be there?" he said. John began with his surprise. "Your the father is dead, "he replied grimly." Why should he go to Hades? You're confused with the one place to another, which has already been removed long ago. "After dinner They folded sheet and spread their blankets at night. "What was the dream of" Kismine sighed, gazing at the stars. "If it seems strange that this dress and the groom without a penny! "Under the stars," he repeated. "I've never seen stars before. I've always thought of those Great Big Diamond which belonged to anyone else. Now They scare me. They make me feel that this was all a dream, all my youth. "It was a dream," John said quietly. "All young people have a dream, form of chemical madness. "" What a pleasure it must be crazy! "" I am told, "said John gloomily." I do not know anymore. Each if we love for some time, a year or two, you and me. It is in the form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the world, diamonds and perhaps shabby gift of disillusion. Well, I am, and I do not do anything normally. "He shuddered." Go to snare the girl, the night is full of freshness, and you get pneumonia. It was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose a couple of hours. "Personally, the packaging of its deck, he fell asleep. ————————————– —————————— ———— Note: This story first appeared in Smart Set (June 1922). Originally entitled "Diamond in the Sky" were rejected by the Post and other magazines, Fitzgerald, cut twenty thousand, even after fifteen thousand words. (Lyrics amputees will be lost.) Moreover, the tightening of the second part of the history of eight hundred words, he polished his collection Contes Jazz Age. Smart Set Fitzgerald paid only $ 300 if the price was $ 1500 Post's long history. Fitzgerald has been discouraged by the Editorial reaction to the story, " entheusiasm three weeks in which I am a true … But, God + Lorimer, I'll do more good fortune. "If he collected Tales of the Jazz Age Fitzgerald explained that the" Diamond "… Has been developed entirely for my amusement. I was a mental condition characterized by the need for a perfect luxury and history began to attempt to feed this food fantasy. … The famous critic, he is pleased with the great show, as it is better than anything I wrote. Personally, I prefer "off-shore Pirate.