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Show Also, he was now more anxlens tor a marriage between Neil and his daugh-- ! ter. It was Indeed the best thing to fully restore her to the social esteem of her own people; for by making her his wife, Neil would most emphatically exonerate her from all blame in the $ quarrel. Just this far, and no farther, By AMELIA E. BARR. had Neils three months sufferifig Author of "Friend Olivia.," "I. Thou end the Other One." Etc. aided his suit, ne had now the full 1886, Dodd. Mead and Company. by Copyright, X the approval of Joris, backed by weight of this social justification. But, in spite ot these advantages, to understand that love never asks. CHAPTER VII. (Continued.) was really much farther away from he Disgrace! The word gees not with What is thy name? Of what country She had heard from Bram our name, Batavius; and what mean art thou? Who is thy father? He Katherine. the the challenge and the of story felt that so long as he lived he must .you, then? In one word, speak. heard how patiently Hyde had Well, then, Neil Semple and Capt. remember Miriam Cohen as she stood fight; reThat is talking to him in the shadowy store parried Neils attack rather than Hyde have fought a duel. what comes of giving way to passion. And this memory of Miriam made him turn it, until Neil had so passionately refused any satisfaction less than his I never fought a duel. No one should very pitiful to Katherine. how even at the poinl life; heard, snake me. It is a fixed principle with Every one is angry at me, Bram, of death, also, and fainting falling, Hyde me. even my father; and Batavius will Poor Neil! His fault, I am sure, It not sit on the chair at my side; and had tried to protect her ribbon at his She never wearied of talking was not. Joanna says a great disgrace I have breast. with Bram on the subject; she thought "Joanna! Neil is nearly dead. If made for her. And thou? Wilt thou of all it day, dreamed of it all night. had been in the right he would not also scold me? I think I shall die of knew much more about il she And be nearly dead. The Lord does not grief." than her parents or Joanna supposed forsake a person who is in fEefighr Scold thee, thou little one? That I Bram had easily fallen into the habit will not. And those that are angry way. of calling at Cohen's to ask after his In the hall behind them, Katherine with thee may be angry with me ratient. At first he saw Miriam often; stood. The pallor of her face, the also. when he did, life became a heavBram! my Bram! my brother! and, hopeless droop of her white shoulders enly thing to Bram Van Heemskirk. and arms, were visible in its gloomy There is one comfort for me, if I Katherine very soon suspected how shadows. Softly as a spirit she knew that he still lived; if one hope matters stood with her brother, and thou could give me! walked, as she drew nearer to them. her to talk with him led gratitude And the Englishman? Is he hurt? What hope there is, I will go and about the :lovely Jewess. Killed. He has at least twenty see, and, if there is good news, I will But for some .weeks after the duel wands. Till morning he will not live, bo glad for thee. she could not bear to leave the house. Not half an hour, was Bram away; It was ft was the councillor himself who sepwrere only after both men and yet, to the 'miserable girl, how known to arated the men. be recovering, that she venfear moand out the grief My good Joris, it was like him. lengthened tured to and her experience For a moment Katherines con- ments! When Bram came back, it there was kirk; not one which tempted her sciousness reeled. The roar of the was with a vord of hope on his lips. to try the streets aad the stores. Howocean which girds our life round was I. have sqen, he said, who dost ever, no interest is a living interest in In her ears, the feeling of chill and thou think? the Jew Cohen. He of a but politics; and far community collapse at her heart. But with a all men, he has sat by Capt. Hydes more important events had now the .supreme will she took possession of side all night; and he has dressed the public attention. During the previous herself. Weak I will not be. All' I wound the English surgeon declared March, the Stamp Act and the Quarwill know. All I will suffer. And beyond mortal skill. And he said to Act had parsed both houses of tering with these thoughts she went back to me, Three times, in the Persian des- Parliament; and Virginia and Massathe room and took her place at the ert, I have cured wounds still worse, chusetts, conscious of their dangerous table. In a few minutes the rest fol- and the Holy One hath given me the character, had roused the fears of the lowed. Batavius had anticipated power of healing; and, if He wills, the other Provinces; and a convention of That is their madams amazement and shock. He young man shall recover. delegates was appointed to meet had felt a just satisfaction in the suf- what he said, Katherine. October in New York. It was during Forever I will love the Jew. Though this fering he was bringing to Katherine. drew session which important But nothing had happened as he ex- he fail, I will love him. So kind he is, Neil Semple, with scarcely healed The meal, instead of being even to those who have not spoken wounds from his chamber. The streets pected. were noisy with hawkers crying the pleasantly lengthened over such dread- well, nor done well, to him. At this moment the family returned detested ful intelligence, was hurried and siwith Acts, and crowded from the morning service, and Bram lent. men discussing groups of stern-lookinIt was some comfort that after it rather defiantly drew his sister to his them. Joanna and he could walk in the gar- side. Joris was not with them. He It was during this time of excite den and talk the affair thoroughly had stopped at the Kings Arms to ment that Katherine said one morning over. Katherine watched them away, ask if Capt. Hyde was still alive; for, at breakfast, Bram, wait one minute and then she fled to her room. And in spite of everything, the young mans for me. I am going to Kips store foi She took from heroic cheerfulness in the agony of my mother. oh, how she wept! their hiding place the few letters her the preceding night had deeply touchAt the store, Bram left her, and aftlover had written her, and she ed Joris. No one spoke, to Katherine; er selecting the goods her mother mourned over them as women mourn even her mother was annoyed and hu- needed, Katherine was going up Pearl in such extremities. In the full tide miliated at the social ordeal through street, when she heard herself called of her anguish, Lysbet stood at the which they had just passed, and she in a familiar and urg t voice. At She heard the inarticulate thought it only reasonable that the er- the sari'l moment, a o ,tr was flunv-opedoor. words of woe, and her heart ached for ring' girl should be made to share the and Mrs. Gordonanning dowv trial. , the few steps, put her hand upon th her, child. She had followed her to As the time went on Katherine girls shoulder. give her comfort, to weep with her; Van Heemskirk shiveredpoor and sickened Oh, my dear, this is a piece of good but she felt that hour that Katherine was no more a child to be soothed in the presence of averted eyes and up- fortune past belief! Come into my chill atI with her mothers kiss. She had be- lifted shoulders, and in that lodgings. Oh, indeed you shall! come a woman, and a womans sorrow mosphere of disapproval which' sep- will have no excuse. Surely you owe arated her from the sympathy and Dick and me some reward after th had found her. It was near ten oclock when Joris confidence, of her old friends and ac- pangs we have suffered for you. came home. His face was troubled, quaintances. She was leading Katherine into thl It is thy punishment, said her house his clothing disarranged and bloodas and Katherim bear it bravely and patiently. had not theshe spoke; not tha and therefore stained; and Lysbet never remember- mother, will, a while, it will be forgot. But ed to have seen him so completely ex- In little to her. She placed the power, oppose went arid wounded men the on, he weeks Bram is with Neil, hausted. her side on the sofa; she took slowly fought death away from their girhjby her hands, and, with a genuine grief said, he will not be home. did and not recover Katherine pillows, And thou? in social estimation which and love, told her all that poor Dick I helped them carry the other. To the place she had lost through the ungovernable had suffered and was still suffering for the Kings Arms we took him. her sake.' tempers of her lovers Live will he? Katherine covered her face, and ill in lasts But and forever; nothing His left lung is pierced through. sobbtsd with a hopelessness and abanmonths was Neil in three his Semple A bad wound in the throat he has. But office again, wan and worn with fever don that equally fretted Mrs. Gordon. then, youth he has, and a great spirit, and suffering, and If I could only see Richard, only wearing his sword and hope. I wish not for his death, arm in a see him for one moment! still but sling, decidedly my God knows. That is exactly wdiat I am goina world-lik- e and life-likIt Was eviNeil, what of him? He will get better when to propose. was a in that dent public opinion large Unconscious he was . when I left I will call a coach, has seen he you. measure with and him, though in the him at his home. Does Katherine Middle Kirk the was sure to be and we will go at once. affair know? Alas! Go I dare not. My father and the subject of a reproof, and of a susShe knows. of its highest privileges, yet my mother! pension How, then? And Dick, what of Dick, poor it was not difficult to feel the symO Joris, if in her room thou could who is dying for you? She went often to deeds Dick, pathy given publicly have heard her crying! My heart but privately admired. Joris to the door and gave the order for censured, one! sorrowful for her aches, the Your lover, Katherine. Child, with a little as- coach. remarked this See, then, that this lesson she miss tonishment and spirit dissent. He could not have you no heart? Put on your bonshe learn it a but is hard not It one, find his heart any excuse for either net again. Here also are my veil and must. If thy love would pass it by, Neil in or Hyde; and, when the elder en- cloak. No one will perceive that it is. it her for think this, good with some acerbity upon the is you. It is the part of humanity, i The next morning was the sabbath, larged of honor among men, assure you. Do so much for a poor soul requirements and many painful questions suggested Joris offended him who is' at the graves mouth. by replying: themselves to Joris and Lysbet Van I think of little Well, then, elder, While thus alternately urging and Heemskirk. Joris felt that he muct that honor which runs not with the Katherine, the coach came, persuading not take his seat among the deacons laws of God and country. the disguise was assumed, and the two until he had been fully exonerated of Let me tell you, Joris, the voice of drove rapidly to the Kings Arms. by the all blame of the people is the voice of God, In a Hyde was lying upon a couch which dominie and his elders and deacons in and you may see with your had been drawn close to the window. measure; hardcould Madam full kirk session. een ain that it mair that acquits Neil He was yet too weak to stand, too ly endure the thought of the glances o wrong-doing- . Man, Joris! would weak to endure long the strain of comat her be thrown daughter, that would sword-figh- t a wi the pany or books or papers. fair you punish and the probable slights she would ' hangman? enHe heard his aunts voice and footso Katherines piteous receive, A better wray there is. In the treaty was listened to, and she was pillory I would stand these men of fall, and felt, as he always did, a vague pleasure in her advent. Whatever of allowed to remain at home. who of their own feelings think life came into his chamber of suffering The kirk that morning would have honor, more than of the law of God. A very came through her. She brought him been the pillory to her. She was unquick end that punishment would put daily such intelligences as she thought speakably grateful for the solitude of to a custom wicked and absurd. cdnducive to his recovery; and it must the house, for space and silence, in Weel, Joris, well hae no quarrel be acknowledged that it was not alwhich she could have the relief of For About the anent the question. Here comes Neil, ways her humor to be truthful. unrestrained weeping. to the Hyde had so craved news of Kathermiddle of the morning, she heard and well let the .question fa are wiser men than ine, that she believed he would die Brams footsteps. Bram .had not grourid. There I on baith sides. t or either you from wanting it; and she had therefore thought of Katherines staying one conscientious nodded and Joris turned fallen, without gravely, confronted she him, when and kirk, the man. welcome to More into the his young scruple, reporters temptad and so which heart was full of pity for her. With- than ever he liked him; for, apart tion, inventing the things to taken and did moral have r and from he had it ought reasons, place, hours twenty-fouprudential in the last for the father to forgive an not. was easy the understand to temptation begun (To be continued.) In which Katherine had been; begun unreasonable love for his Katherina. The Bow of Orange Ribbon 1 j A Song of Chicago I Serene as Summer season. She takes her dauntless stand. And fears no venomed treason. And spurns the traitor's brand. And every breeze that's blowing, And every stream that s flowing. Through fertile pastures going. Bring strength unto her hand! For her rich, teeming prairie. Gives up its garnered store. vary. Though seasons change andmore. They yield her more and All hers the flowers and grasses That carpet mountain passes. Green garlands of Parnassus, Dew drenched in Grecian lore. For her the stars are shining Their radiance from the sky. Bland, balmy zephyrs, pining To kiss as they go by. For her the lark is trilling His fiery rapture filling The timorous doves unwilling To dare the blue and fly. The 'sheaves that sway in slumber And pine for cooling showers, The flocks so vast in number That graze through gradual hours. Big herds in fertile places. The frisky lamb that races. Shy gazelles of gentle graces. Are hers; and tender flowers. Hers Is the gold that gleaming Deep down in murky mire Lures on the stripling, dreaming. To grasp the wealth and shine. All hers the teeming treasure Which buys the thoughtless pleasure, Afid leaves the poet leisure To launch the liquid line. Hers every brawling river That waters all our land. Whose kingly heart will quiver And rise at her command. At her behest the yeoman I . - ' Into her garden gracious Pour el! the sons of men. Her marble halls are spacious. Crate is her d.atlem.' Her soaring sou! is oi.ain'ess Her silvery shield is stainless Her reign is soft an.l painless. And beauty Is her ge.n. Calm as some high-bor- n maiden In her ar.costial hall. Her robes of stare arrayed In. fc'he marsha s one a ' il ad. Her brow Is trank and fearless, Phe heartens all the cheerless. Fair Ch'bIaino so peerless With henchmen at her call. , When fiery flames were roaring. Arid rim filing at her door. And hell itself seemed pouring Its vitriol on her floor. Rierrousrd h I reliant And rurged erseif defiant"" Fnlilie a maid compliant Who sells herself for store. f Through darkling nights of terror She staggered through the. fray. Through choking misrs of error. She groped to find the day. And though she often stumbled. As sick at heart and humbled. She watched her roof tree crumbled. She won she won her way. Stand firm, oh gracious goddess. To guard 'what you have won. The heart beneath your bodice Heats ,strenuous( gs the mn. Flushed Wish the line of morning, e Imperial eyed, and scorn'ng.--Tli- warn gibes and groundlings' I Wi1. IB Wen!" Cry vuu JAMFS R. KTXSR' ft. Reglstrv Division. Chicago Poto, T Savory Disli of Japan Not so well known among the occidentals as soy sauce, blit of equal merit as an appetizer, is wasabi. Its use is universal in Japan. It serves the same purpose that horseradish aoes. on occidental tables, hut is less acrid. My own introduction to wasabi was unique I count among my most pleasant experiences in this sunrise land my meetibg with Tumio Yano, novelist and diplomat. And not the least item in my deh't-.gratitude to him is that he taught me-- to appreciate raw fish and wasabi! Mb. Yano has been the mikados ambassador to China- and the Nippon ether lands. One night club he led up to a delicate subject on the menu with much diplomacy. He finally got my assent to t,he statement that a cosmopolitan appetite is one of the distinguishing mi rks of cultivated travel. Then he passed . g ... V:,1 r.se ami nvnt the foeman. As did the stubborn Roman When treason showed Ins hand. - m-ra- w fish! I confessed n; i j that I was willing .a be or any oth ir varia stick ety of Ffiurian, rather than ta'V place with the international elect b.lmting such a dish. My host, however, was painfully insistent, finally adding that with raw fish they, of course, fete wasabi. Now, I did not have even a vague notion of what this might be, oui vub that raw proposition before me it was comforting to know that at least it va to bj dnutid with something. I conjured up an experience in taking castor oil ambushed under skerry and sarsaparilla, which nhile to not a beverage one would gi crave, might l.ave been worse. I figured out also that with my gaucherie9 with chop sticks I might manage without. exciting suspicion to drop the fish before the fatal moment aLd eat only the mysterious wasabi. BuU whether through cowardice or courage I cannot say, fish and relish made quick and simultaneous journey to my reluctant palate, and in that instant there fiahed into my consciousness the unn deniable truth that in all my occidental years I had been denied one of the most savory dishes in the world. .Charges Lambs Chinaman had jubilant delight over hik first tact.) of roast pig; hut that is a degraded passion compared with an initial ec.Jtf.f'vover an oriental morsel of raw Anamasu g)arnished with the appetizing Tobtsof Eatrema wasabi; Ail hondr to triumphant agricultural Japan, aitd may this far eastern member of the mustard tamily take deep root and spread and flourish in my native land! Booklovers Magazine. Anglo-uaxon- s Tombs of Ancient Egypt which were begun with a large number of little wooden Nile, some two hundred miles above Cairo, in December, 1902, have now There have been been completed. discovered and searched in the necropolis extending along the face of the limestone cliff SS7 tombs, including that of Sebek Hetepa, 2300 B. C., together with its curious funeral models. Each burial chamber was formed of a recess at the base of a square shaft, occasionally at a depth of thirty feet, hewn in the solid rock and carefully filled in. By this careful means the body of the deceased was preservThis type of ed from disturbance. burial antedates the mummification period; but it was found in the case of two bodies, that decay had been arrested by the wrappings, which Each tomb were found still intact. contained a wood sarcophagus, with the lines of religious formulae and text inscribed upon it the orthodox and with the head hieroglyphics, to north and the painted the pointing eyes of Osiris toward the east. The sarcophagus was surrounded ing boats, a granary, a group of persons baking, a man brewing, a man leading an ox, a girl carrying a brae of birds in her hands and a basket on her head. Notwithstanding the extreme age believed to be. four thousand years of these curious relics, they were found to be in a remarkable state of preservation, the oarsmen in the galleys leaning upon their oars and the paint still bright and clean. The ceremonies attending the interment of a woman were slightly dis- The excavations at Beniasan, on the east bank of tne models representing river and sail- similar, the departed lady being provided with a basket of toilet requisites. These curious little models wer buried in accordance with the ancient Egyptian religious rites, in order to provide the departed one with the necessaries for future life. One highly interesting discovery was made in the course of these excavations an exact counterpart of the modern weaving reed as used in the mills at Wigr.n, England, the only difference being that the ancient Egyptians of 2300 B. C. used cane teeth instead of steel. blood-guiltine- tear-staine- woe-begon- , Church Without a Name Within four miles of the quiet Town of High Wycombe, in Bucks, is the small Village of Loudwater, which possesses one of the most remarkable sacred edifices now in existence, says the London Daily News. It is a substantial brick building, with curious, round, beaded windows, and a quaint little open turret rests on the top at one end of the church. It bears little or no resemblance to an ecclesiastical structure, but the exterior is fashioned like a paper mill; while the interior has been likened to a cabin type. of a ship of the Unlike other churches, it does not appear to have a name. If it ever had rie, it' has now passed into obscurity. This unique cburch was built in A. at a time when tnere wer in the village for the manufacture of paper, and a number of hands were employed. One of th principal paper makers and his wifa realized that the provision made for the spiritual needs of the people was D. 1788, mills altogether inadequate, and resolved to build them a church. This they accordingly did, and tradition declares that the remarkable design' and character of the edific may be attributed to the special avocation of the founder, who hoped thus to immortalize his business! Th church will soon be restored, when It is proposed to make it look more lik a house of prayer than a paper milL London Daily News. |