[Gutenberg 63625] • Broken Butterflies

Excerpt from Broken Butterflies

The black bow Of the Tenyo Mam cut into the broad ribbon Of moonlight stretching, interminably, straight into the vast spaces Of the opalescent night. Somewhere ahead, bathed in that same pale illumina tion, invisible, lay Japan.

Arms folded over the rail, Hugh Kent looked for ward into the Opaque dimness. From the main deck below the plaint Of a bamboo flute came softly up to him. The following wind brought stray bits of the dance music from astern where the cabin passengers were enjoying their last night at sea. \ahead the Orient, dim, mysterious, indefinitely veiled as the flute notes behind him the virile, strident, restless clamor of the West; ever approaching, the two, East and West, seeking to blend, even partly blending, yet each as yet too strongly individual, mutually strange, to combine in full harmony.

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