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She drove men to madness by her sheer beauty, this little maid of
Indo-China—an Oriental tale of love, lust, and sudden
death, and a wild adventure
A FAIRY temple of pearl and rose seemed to be floating toward him on the dark waters of the River of Perfumes. Doctor Barrett rose in haste and clapped his hands for his house-boys. The temple undulated and swayed somewhat under the oar-strokes of the pirogue that floated it. It was fringed with translucent globes of color from its paper lanterns; it was lit within, so that its silken walls radiated a luminous pearly-white glow. Coming through the scented night, over a black mirror of waters that was all reflected color from the lights of the Emperor's palace downstream, it thrilled Barrett.
"God! It takes Indo-China to stage a scene like this!" he exclaimed.
