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 pages. "Ziska" teaches that sin shall not escape punishment, that a man shall not play fast and loose with women's hearts and yet go scotfree. "Ziska" shows how the mutilated soul of the beautiful dancer arises after many centuries and exacts vengeance from its enemy; and again "Ziska" shows how, when Araxes, in his modern painter guise, cries for pardon, the eyes of his one-time victim soften and flash with love and tenderness.

Truly a fragrant passage is this, wherein the old story is once again told of man's repentance and woman's sweet forgiveness.