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Show his prize. Not yet, at any rate. Not LIGHT ON HISTORY until you have heard my story." He sank into a chair, his hand still grasping Illcks wrist, and went on RECENT DISCOVERY IS OF UNI passionately: VERSAL INTEREST. It belonged to her father this umbrella. He was my employer, and a rich man; and I loved his daughter, By F. E. CHASE and she loved me. But bo found It Samaritan Version of the Book of out, and forbade me bis house forJoshua Differs in Some Ways bade mo to think of her. But I wouldnt from the Incidents as Told (Copyright, by Shorutory Pub. Co. give her up and, she wouldn't give me In the Bible. so wo used to write one an In 58 years the establishment of J same performance took place, and up, and other every day, and send the letters fourth and fifth anniver- Lack and Illcks, licensed pawnbroker, had suf again at- the Mention was made by cable the .. forth In this umbrella handle. , fered many changes, generally for the L year ? th? The old man always carried it, wet or other da' of Git discovery of Dr. Moses J worse. " .r.f ''O'. ni I usM (o watch my chance Caster, the Hebrew scholar and anti- In 58 years many things had come careworn, and his argument grew during the day and unscrew the top Quarlan. of the Samaritan version of into the little shop and gone again. more languid and perfunctory; but If while he was out of the office, and put Gie Book of Joshua. A few days ago Love and joy and death and bitterness, his pursuit was less eager It was not In I my letter, and she did the same at 1)r Gaster described to the members. and pledges innumerable, waning with less persistent, and each annual recur- home. It seemed a great Joke then of tb Boyal Asiatic society how ho the years from the dignity of watches rence of the date found him promptly to make him our postman." and wedding rings to the degradation on hand to protect his mysterious inHicks withdrew his hand, slowly terests. s of and the bed blankets. Between whiles the pawnbroker leaving the yellow paper between Commercially regarded, pledge No. them on the desk. B31 was a green silk umbrella with a never saw him or heard from him, but Business went wrong," continued heavy metal handle of considerable in- there was scarcely a day that he did the stranger after a pause. "The old trinsic value; sentimentally, it stood not think of him and of his pursuit, man got involved worse and worse for Illcks' oldest and dearest friend; and scarcely a week that, in an ec- tried the w rong way out of it, and had psychologically, it supplied him, other stasy of baffled curiosity and greed to skip. He realized on everything ht motives being lacking, with some for to his inflamed imagination the had oven this, as It turned out and simple gamp had become the key to left between two thing to live for. hei days, taking Its history was a simple one, but of treasures untold he did not take with him. They sailed for South down the article and it, rap America on the GInevra exceptional interest you remem sound feel rattle Its It, fabric her she was never it, it, It had been pawned one morning in beard from the early years of his business life by Inch by Inch, and, upon occasion, curse never even spoken. And never a wore commanded to proceed to the entry of a respectable elderly gentleman, who, its silent secretiveness in good set from her It was all so sudden terms. after some haggling, accepted for It knew that but something might have tho rrom,sed Land. Joshua ordered was head Its metal and large the counting of the people, which also the sum of four dollars. With this been done I couldnt understand. heay. to tests all he solid, that apparently, did not appear in the Bible. sum and the customary ticket, he went gucss j went preUy ncar QUt of Thcn 11 6tatcs that tho Pc8 went t0 out of Hicks' establishment, and was dared make. mind. My body just went round with went Thus time man the on, young never again seen there or elsewhere. out me somehow, for months doing Jor,cho and on thc,r return save a after coming doggedly year year, lho old thlng3 without my k'nowIng port to Joshua and the High rrlest Nearly a year from the date of this season and older grayer, soon anything about It, when all at once 1 K,eazar-- They crossed the Jordan, transaction, and just before the ex- aevery middle-ageman, by and by an old thought of the old 'umbrella route as Proccded by the ark. and put up the piration of the term of the loan, a his years, shabbier we used to cau It older than was no man, young man had turned up, and had injt wag a chance stones In Gilgal, but there once and but unfall- than still of of. feebler, mentlon the Egypt." "reproach perhaps she didn't have any other All quired with evident anxiety regarding In patience. of the of The the lng stratagem story their had been the pledged umbrella. thIng3 8cattered by more than half a century saie but j hunted and hunted There caPture of Al ,3 related, but no men Thus 1 It Is most important," said the went annl- - were a hundred chances and as the of Joshua holding up the by, that he had tion !s made Ribleyoung man, for for family reasons, now come of had to be what lance The by the way'8aJ8 versary takcn it with him, but I took the one that this article be redeemed. There the men against chief event of his life approached, that he hadnt. By and by I 8ent 30.000 dosbua tbat thought is no objection, I presume, to my pay- Hicks felt a livelier A wbereas tbe new book say8 that hope than usual 0f the pawn shops and went the ing the loan and interest, on behalf stir within him. His annual visitor rounds. j guesg yourg wag about the of my my relative, and taking the had seemed feeble at the lastt and when 1 unusually got my eyeg on the property out of your hands. time of his last visit, and the chance old thlng lt was like coming home None whatever," said Hicks, pro- that he could have survived appeared But lhe ticket stuck me, and I couldnt vided you have the ticket." A remote. conviction comfortingly tell my story to such a man as you goes that tbe two and a haIf tribes re ' turned beJ'ond the Jordan with King "Surely that is unimportant," urged that at length the mystery of so many were then. Youve changed a good deal XT''V''U the stranger, "so that you get your years would be somehow revealed to jn 55 years money. Suppose we say double the him penetrated the old pawnbrokers He pausedt and looked longlngly at amount, by way of penalty for my mind, and as the critical date ap-- the letter. carelessness in having lost the ticket." proached, he felt an almost youthful "That's what I wanted. I knew it That wont do," said the broker. eagerness of anticipation. As a rule was there. Her last letter to me. The his visitor had turned up a day or jast one she ever wrote. It made me Supposing it turned up?" twro But it cant turn up, said the earlier than was necessary, but wjjd at first to think that if I could It Is at the this year he had not appeared on the onjy get my hands on the thing for a young man, earnestly. bottom of the sea with the man to morning of the final day. minute, I could have lt out. But you whom you gave it. By the terms of the loan the owners never let me touch it. Whatd you How can you prove that to me? rights expired at noon, and as that think it ?" took down Hicks the hour approached, said Hicks. Hicks No, no, my friend, nodded, umbrella with an unsteady hand and must have my ticket." cried the other Money! Ive But the thing is worthless I will deliberated upon a plan of investiga- - wanted money pretty bad, but never. . . ex dered from the Bible pay you ten times the loan to safe tion. He had amply provided himself the way I wanted that letter. But I maidtan were found aIs In Josephus, and also guard you against any claim 20 with tools and only awaited liberty to couldnt seem to tell at first, and by other. Jewish rabbinical writings, a in times! Good God!" he cried, excited use them. and by, when I got to know it was One! Two! Three! I must have it, man; more dethere waitin for me, it didnt seem further proof that Josephus did not ly. Six! Seven! to matter much, so that I could keep invent the legends, as he was supEight! pends upon it than you know." Eleven! Twelve! When he had gone, the broker took it safe. And I have! he cried. And posed to have done. TLe original of Hebrew version. the Hicks had selected a cold chisel here it is. down the umbrella from its shelf and must Dr. have been comGastar said, Fifty-eigh- t and was posing a examined it with a new interest. It from his exclaimed years, 200 years before Christ. was an excellent umbrella, solidly hammer to strike, when a shadow fell Hicks. You old fool! Why didnt posed at least chief rabbi of the SpanDr. Gaster, respectable as to handle and stoutly upon his desk, and a familiar voice you tell me this 58 years ago?. ish Jews in England, and Portuguese serviceable as to fabric, yet scarcely said : And pushing the letter toward his connected with the been has closely Yes, youve beaten. I havent the companion, he turned away, deserving the valuation the young man for when and Samaritans years, had put upon it. Doubtless its value price. Ive tried hard, but when one with a little weak moan of satis- - in Samaria hadmany to access their free was sentimental merely; and yet the t00i even facii0n Btranger seized the paper llbr,rles. whlle hewas vislttog n th, claimant had been strangely eager. bigger things go. and carefully opened it. blus last year the high priest gave him Hicks paused in his work and looked There was some mystery about it. It may have been five minutes be- a manuscript which proved to be a fore the old pawnbroker ventured to Well, in 30 days it might be solved, for at his visitor. or brief history of the Sachronicle Let me show you, he said. There turn and look at him. if, as the young man had said, its from the entry of the Chilmaritans owner and the ticket were both at the is an easier way." He sat just as he had left him, hudHe took the umbrella from Hicks dled together in his chair, the letter dren of Israel into Palestine under bottom of the sea, the umbrella would Joshua up to the present time. From become his when the loan matured. and, Inserting an awl In one eye of in his hand, his chin on his breast the verger he received another manuBut the matter turned out by no the carved face on the umbrella head, dead script, almost identical with that means so simply. Two days before with this leverage easily unscrewed which the high priest had given him. Sacrificed Life for Horse, the loan matured, the young man re- the top, to the pawnbrokers amaze-At first he did not pay much attenIt was testified at an inquest at tion turned, clearly fortified with a better ment and disgust. The cavity thus to it, but a careful examination knowledge of the business and of his discovered contained only a piece of Bryn (Wales) on a young man named convinced him that it was an authentic powers and privileges, paid the inter- folded paper, yellow with age. Upon Owen Richards, who was killed by a of the old Hebrew original. It est on the loan for another year, and this Hicks pounced with a kind of fall of rock at a local colliery, that copy he considers, have been regardthus renewed the matter for that whine of animal greed and satisfac- - he had liberated his horse, which was must, ed by the Samaritans as a book of aution. attached to a tram, and in doing so period. for the calendar started from But the strangers hand fell upon his delayed his own escape and was thority, In 12 months more, just as Hicks in it. It could not have indications the imagination was beginning to hover with an energy of which his feeble killed, been translated from the Greek, bein close circles about his mysterious body scarcely seemed capable. cause it agreed entirely with the Dont touch it! he cried. Voice of the Vegetarian. Fori pledge, the young man again returned Hebrew, while the knowledge of the and renewed the loan as before, after Gods sake dont. It is nothing noth- Meat is a bad thing for the stomach Hebrew language among modern Saagain trying vainly to negotiate its ing to you; to me it is so much. No, financially and- - physically. Dayton maritans is very limited. surrender. In another the he urged, as Hicks strove to withdraw Herald THE GREEN GAMP - i I flat-iron- 1 1 re-sti- ll d fifty-eight- h - , 1 I I was-mone- I y I newly-recovere- lay-ou- t, I lJayJr I . 12-mon- 1 d |