Show The Bride o of The e Nile to Or fly G Georg Eber I Author of ot An E Egyptian Prin The Emperor cess cese Uarda I Tho The Bur Burgomasters Burgomaster's I wife Homo llomo Sum um Joshua Etc Etc Eta cried Orion Is And nevertheless capable of oC no meanness How lIow you ou men mom do flo o take lake up other for Cor a aa aa a pair 11 of ot line fine eyes said his mother Interrupting him But I had not the l the ho remotest Idea of oC her I had something t quite different In InleW view leW Time Thero rom was a 0 pair pall of ot mens men's shoes found lying you near ar tho time wounded girl Sebo havo hayo you OU curled curried cur car nod ried out Mr 11 Orion's orders orders the steward stew stew- Directly madame replied ard anI and 1 I have havo been waiting a lon long time already for tor the tho com commands a of ol the guard that u Here he was Interrupted for Cor time tho party parly named who had hael been commander commander of the time home home- home guard ard for Cor 0 and after aft aCt years was led Into Inlo the tho room er Cl lie ho had answered a few preliminary inar question began to make his report In such stich a loud voice voice that It was painful to tho time governor o and his wife ha had to request him to speak more softly The Time hounds blood-hounds and terriers had been let loose after thc they had hall held tho the soles soles under their noses nose and a couple hud luid quickly found toun the their It way to time tile seed servants servants' servants servants' ser ser- vents vents' gate ate where Hiram had waited for tor Paula Then rhen the they thoy had stood still at the bottom of oC tho steps step sniffed hero here and there and then bounded up a aCe few steps st And s d those steps load leHl to Paulas Paula's chamber Interjected shrugging shrug shrug- ging her shoulders But ut the time terriers wore ware on a a. false nl o scent Interposed the tho commander of or ortho tho the guard ca eagerly erh The ThA toads ml might ht have havo brought Innocent people under suspicion Soon the time whole pack rushed to tho the principal stables where our finest finest fin fin- est cst hor horses Cs C's arc are and ran up and down there thero as Satan Salan might do at the back backof backo o of a lost soul Tho Tito pack would soon have torn to pieces the ho boy of or the treed freedman man who came here with the daughter of ot the tho great Thomas of ot Damascus Damascus Damascus Dam Dam- and In his fathers father's dwelling what a there thero was Heaven and amI earth such a barking growling a and 1111 whining The They Thoy stuck their noses Into e every old rag and now we v knew here hen the tho hole In tho the w s 1 am sorry about that man for cursed stammerer that ho he In is all honor to him himas as a n Jockey an and manager of ot horses horses' Those sandals belong to Hiram as surely surely surely sure sure- ly as my eyes are arc m my own but we haven't caught him yet ot He Is on theother time the other side of ot tho the river for or a boat Is missing missing- and where It had lain the till howling was waR renewed If It the Infidels over thero there do not take him under th lr protection well ell tree him surely Then we would have the criminal exclaimed Orion Orlon at the same sarno time drawing a deep breath as If It relieved of or a heavy burden Then he continued Imperiously and at the same time his voice assumed so 80 fierce a tone that the flush which ha had a n. little while whilo ago aso suffused suffused suf sut- fused his cheeks could hardly be attributed attributed attributed at at- to Jo Joy at this last good news If It If he Is not back two hours after atter afternoon afternoon noon then be after him with all your our force and wreak your our vengeance upon him My h father will give you a warrant warrant war WAr- rant and the Arabs over there will len lend you ou aid ald Perhaps the thief will fall Into m my hands earlier and with him the emerald emeral for tor the rascal cannot cannot can cannot not have ha made awa away with It or sold soM It Then ho he lowered his hie voice olce and continued In a tone of or commiseration a pity pits pit for or that man We e hano have havo no better Jockey Jocke In the thc stable Here Hele Is another confirmation of oC what yon von say Sa mother If It you want a good bood servant servant servant ser ser- ser ser- vant buy a n rogue Properly said ald 11 his Is mother as though considering Hiram does not belong be to our household He Is one one- of ot Thomas' Thomas freedmen and came here with his daughter Everybody praises es his efficiency In the stable but for or his disgraceful act we wo would have kept him all his life but If It It had como come Into the maidens maiden's mind to leave us and take talce him him with her We wo could not have havo held him back Sa Say what you ou choose scold and abuse me I have nothing o of what you call can power of ot Imagination and see things nakedly as they are r fc f. certain connection must exist between that girland gIrland girl girland and the thief Yo You Tu u are arc t ti b h cf it sf once and for tor all all' e Us saTu starting up and he would have said more If It at the same moment the chamberlain chamberlain cham cham- ha had not asked for or an nn audience on behalf of oC the Israelite jeweler Gam Gam- aliel The man ha had come to Impart concerning the lost precious precious precious pre pre- cious stone Orion grew pale at this Intelligence and turned ort oft from the merchant while the same Jew enter entered who had been sitting b by the fire firc with the officers officers of or- the night before beCore Without dela delay he ho began his report In a lI el lively manner however peculiar to himself He was so rich that tho threatened loss dl did not affect him seriously seriously seri serl- enough to completely spoil his bis bisgood good humor and so honest that It de do- lighted lIghte him to restore Ill-gotten Ill property property property prop prop- erty to Its rl rightful owner Very Yen early earh earlvIn In the morning he told them the Jockey Hiram had lied been to see him In order to dispose of or a wonderfully lar large e ean an and beautiful emerald The free freedman man ha had assured him that the Jewel be belonge belonged belonged be- be longed longe to the property left leCt by tho the renowned Thomas his former master It ha had belong belon to the hea headgear ear of the tho war horse hore which that hero had ridden from Damascus the last time and with that It ha had fallen tallen fallen to himI him I I offered him continued the man what seemed to me right and antI gave 1 him as earnest mone money two thousand drachmas he lie offered meanwhile to trust me for tor the thc rest I agreed to this but a fly ny buzzed suspicion Into m my car ear Then the hounds blood guided the J bailiffs Into the ell city God be gracious j to me what a clatter Tho The creatures did as though the they would bark my poor house to pieces pieces like like the trumpets trum pets Jets before the time walls of ot Jericho you ou know hats time the news I asked aske of or tho time master masler of ot the hounds and lo m my suspicion suspicion sus sus- had been as genuine as the emerald emerald em em- erald and here your our highness I bring I the gem em and because ev every l' l nursling i In Memphis knows the lie voice of ot Its nurse nutae If It she sho Is not dumb I 1 am con con- o that a Just man like the tho great will make u up to to me for what I 1 have advanced to that stammerIng stammerIng stammer- stammer Ing log rascal You will bo ho making making- a good soot bargain at the tho same time lime noble sir J for tor I do not ever charge chargo for Cor the keepIng keepS keeping keep- keep Ing S of ot the Jewel or Interest curing j the two hours that It was mine Give the stone hero Interposed the time Arab who ha had been vexed b by the JestIng JestIng Jest- Jest Ing log tone In which the Jew ha had made mado his statement Snatching the time emerald from from him Mm he ne Vol weighed hed It In his hand hel held It close under his eyes then again 1 far off oCt tapped It with a n little hammer ham ham- mer which he drew out of ot his breast pocket fitted It Into time the place in the tho tapestry whence a stono stone had been abstracted abstracted ab ab- and then scrutinized It with wIlh glances glance sometimes H sharp sometimes reflective and finally contented d |