Show 86 HE HOT PEEP O' DAY—A LITERAET MAGAZINE ML 3 BY E W TULLIDGE o- CIIAPTER V TERESE TIIE IIEUREW MAIDEN Tercse the prirmi 'donna and the oil- chantress of the musical world at Koine was by birth a Hebrew Iler father was the soil of a Russian Jets who had been despoiled of his wealth and transported to Siberia for taking part in a conspiracy against the Czar His relation ’to the couspiring nobles Was as might he expected simply that which his wealth formed but his knowledge of the conspiracy and his loans to its chiefs were grounds enough for his ruin and banish4 went The ‘parents of Tcresc fled to Italy and had her father lived he would not unlikely have been followed by the desti-n- y of his race which though’it 1ms made them a ’hiss and in every land has recompensed them by pouring into ‘their laps the wealth of tin nations but he was cut off from life before the birth of hi child The mother of Terese was an ideal of a ‘‘daughter of Zion” whoso pious aspi-- r rations were more for the return of the than the material prosperity Captivity of the royal house of Judah among the nations She died in giving birth to her "daughter and an Italian peasant woman took the orphan Hebrew maiden aiul fostered her with her own children Terese the Jewess grew up under the ikind woman’s care a beautiful interesting child She possessed that sweetly melancholy dreamy character so often seen : in orphan children “Left alone” is their first realization and in females that - consciousness often engenders this orphan interestingness that surrounds them but ‘sometimes in the strong types of man it e of ‘give? a rugged robust' Yet even in the most self- f character supportive natures there is a voice of yearning heard How many a strong d man is melted by his yearning for the mother lie never knew?’ What wonder then that in the gentle sex an orphaned life creates a general yearning of the heart — nature asking for father mother brother sister kin— and then as the rose-bu- d opens into bloom of maturity love’s yearning for her mate grew up the pet and darling of her foster-brother- s and sisters and by the sweetness of her disposition and or- plian history became a favorite of the villagers who were ever ready wilh kindness and sympathy for the beautiful Hebrew maiden Even the gids forgot their usual jealousy towards their own sex so Lir as Terese was concerned and by common consent the Hebrew orphan was the acknowledged queen of the village maidens Of course the boys were ready to do battle for her especially her foster-brothe- r Beppo This foster-brothwas a true Italian with all their passionate nature and jealand he was fonder cf his foster-sis- ousy ter than he was of all the world besides Between him and nearly every one of the village boys there were constant and fiery quarrels over Terese In his ex- - elusive affection for her no one but foster-brother possessed any claims to he her champion a point which lie frequently maintained by physical force and there was only one view which recon-oile- d him to anybody’ but himself doing anything for Terese and that was the osd it would be to his foster-sisto- r for iho bo 7 would kayo quarreled with' tho tMMM moon if she had wauled it and the moon had refused to come at her bidding The Hebrew maiden often had to the fire Jf her jealous foster-brothraid reconcile him to his companions with whom he always would quarrel upon the slightest appearance of trespass upon his rights where Terese was concerned blithe trembled at the slightest rebuke from bis foster-siste- r ’When lie had given any serious cause of offence or pain by his jealous fondness for her lie would indulge in passionate and grief and moody sometimes he would hide himself for days in the neighboring mountains This photograph of lbster-brothe- r Bep- po is given because he will come in as an ac! or in the future history of “Tercse the Hebrew Maiden” and her connection with our story must be left to its development to determine whether or not she is to be the heroine With the hints we have given the imagination of our readers call fill in the history of the orphan Jewess until she reached the age of £fieen just about four years prior to the present late of which we write There is no period in a woman’s life Avhen she more resembles ail opening rosebud than at that age when Terese was first brought to the notice of Sir 'Walter Templar and Lord Frederick D’Laoy two English youths new from their native country on the usual continental tour' Sir Waller Templar was the elder of his companion by a year and his type of person and character was dark and intellectual They were just the two joutlis whom one would predict as certain to tumble into- some romance or who if they did not find it would create one which would as most certainly involve them iu future embarrassment The young D’Lncy was a frank generous bold youth strongly attache to his friend whose superiority he maintained and whose intellectual and impetuous mind lie followed Doubtless our readers have already recognized him as identical with little Freddy of our first chapter and Sir Walter Templar as the nephew of Sir Richard The youths were repeating in their persons the friendship which had' so strongly existed between the father of “Fred” and the unde of Walter In their (listery friendship will be not less Rtorgly marked but the future lias a cross— well never mind that here let us not see it until it conies Fred was just the one foruulventure and was prepared to follow Walter into What had lie any extravagant romance left England for except adventure ? The knight-errand- s of to days youth will never be out of date In Italy a land of banditti Walter would have been pronounced by a physiognomist as the very man who if moulded by some desperate circumstance would be likely to awe society in the character of a renowned banditti chieftain of the grand and noblest type — a being as much to admire devotedly follow and love as to fear Row to liavorganized a model ban- ditti under the chieftanship of Walter would have been the very thing that young D’Lacy at nineteen would have voted for above all eaithly glory Ho knew that itr would have been a most honorable band if Walter was its chieftain and one that would only battle and astonish the world in Koine great cause The Garibaldian type or something like it would have suited Fred— one to fight for “down-trodde- n Italy” or any other down-trodde- n nationality or down-trodde- n Youth like and anything anywhere full of his good generous big heart - t tmrigtfagwi rtf i Fred ns with thousands more at his age was for a crusade of some kind in behalf of humanity and right and against op1 le had heard often pression 'mill wrong tiie tradition of Walter Templar’s house that its founder was an illustrious Grand Master of the renowned order of Knight Templars and his friend Walter was certainly a fitting representative in character of such au ancestor Why then should not Walter be Grand Master or Grand Chieftain 'or Grand Somebody? was Fred’s unanswerable question These touches of portraiture of our hero will not be found out of place in the history of “Terese the Hebrew Maiden” There was another extravagant romance that the young Englishmen were the very ones to fill into ' and this ouo they found The youths discovered tho beautiful orphan Jewess and created themselves her verv venerable guardians! What romance could be better ? what character could the boys assume more becoming ? Walter was twenty and Fred nineteen and Terese fifteen The vevy ones to staiTd together iu the relationship ! It is true howof ward and guardians ever that although AV alter’ her chief was only twenty lie was old guardian enough in person and character to be twentv-tw- o Terese as we have seen was sweetly melancholy and dreamy in her disposition — the ideal of an orphan maiden — a typo of a daughter of Zion She possessed rare musical gifts of nature like many more of the Jewish race (Jft'eii in pastoral solitude Terese would 'warble forth her sokil iiyimprovisious - of genius and on such an oecasiou Sir Walter Templar and Lord Frederick D’Laev introduced ' themselves to the Lotus take our gitted Hebrew child readers back to that episode of her history which branched out over the whole future of her life blended with the history of our hero and gave a leading thread to ' ' our story “ Hark !’’ exclaimed i$ir Walter in rap ture as the strains of the Hebrew maiden burst upon their ears as they wandered near the mountains admiiing the scenery of that beautiful Italian village which gave her birth “ The song of some mountain shepherdess I low very beautiful ! What a rich voice Yf alter !” “ Divine !” replitul his friend in extacy for music was with him a passion “What a plaintive air and how unconstrained Walter ’tis tliMinprovisions Listen how it changes now of genius plaintive now tender now yearning ! It is borne upon the soft Zephyrs of classic Italy burdened with the soul of poesy and sung” “ A beautiful shepherdess I’ll be sworn By St George Waiter I believe it is tho fairy of one of the romance I have beeu dreaming” “ The nymph of the mountains then Fred waking the solitude with pastoral melody She comes this wav!’ We will not startle the lawn with rude abrupti ness” TheJIIebrew maiden approached and was gently and gracefully accosted by the young Englishmen “Tell us beautiful maiden is it unlawful to speak with the mountain nymph who warbles such enchanting strains ?” “ Oh no young stranger” she sweotly answered Walter smiling “it is not unlawful I am not the mountain nymph” “ Indeed you are Is she not Walter? I am sure you are a fairy beautiful songstress Row do tell us your fairy history” “ I am only Terese and the villagers call mo the’ orphan Hebrow maiden-- ” |