Show The Bride of I The Nile I II Hy lii Geong Ebere I I A Author thor of An E Egyptian PrinI Princess Prin Prin- I cess cess Uarda a. a The Emperor I The Burgomasters Burgomaster's WItS wife If t Homo Sum gum Joshua Etc Etc Continued from Irom Yc Yf XVI In I ii Her lIr X Nei c Home When hon the doctor octor had hall parted from Paula he ho had tol told her that tile the Mu- Mu I kaukas' kaukas en end might occur at an any moment moment mo nio- ment or that he ml might aught ht be wrestling with death for lor we weeks J 8 longer This prospect pros pros- I heeL seemed scorned tn ii console her lien for the IMP thought tha that t the lie only true friend whom she sho had possessed In Memphis before Ph Philippus III I would go awu away forever I without having heard hemd her Justification would seem seen to her lien Intolerable Nothing O less than thull probable was as It that In the environs of ot anyone save her grandchild would think of her hen wit wll with It Ii I Iloe love lore and she hardly desired It but she shedid shedid did not wish to forfeit torrell In the governors governor's gover go nors nor's mant mansion lon that respect to Which she sl-p foil tolt that she was waa entitled Did Old he ho friend succeed In prolonging her uncles uncle's days then thon an nn open conference with him might win In hack his old olti friendly feelIngs feet feel i Ings and favorable opinion Her new lIew home seemed to her like I Ia a Wa way station an oasis In the tho desert I of ot her solitary and what she had learned arnon among her Memphis connections con- con could not but prove pro beneficial here Just now hope In her heart hud had I risen superior to grief and amid disillusion Only Orion's propinquity rested like a 1 I threatening hall hail cloud over the fresh I I sown field of ot her Inward peace pence and yet et nothing attached her more firmly to o Memphis l besides the nece necessity of or Awaiting the tho messenger here than the time possibility of or following his suture future CAn career el at least from afar What she felt cit for Cor him she sho herself called deep aversion and unwilling as sho she was to I acknowledge It to herself this formed an essential part of ot her Interior life I Her now hosts hail had received her as asa asa I In a n welcome guest and certainly they the did not seem to he be poor people Their house was very orr room roomy and although old and alid unpretending was furnished neatly and tastefully She ha had been heen surprised at the lie scrupulous caro with which tho the garden g-artlen was sas tended end nd she had s seen een herself a n humpbacked gardener gardener gar gar- ardener ar- ar dener and und several children at work In It Strange helpmeets For like their decrepit master mansIon the they thoy were wele all nil with some bodily ailment The TIme bit of or land belonging to It It which reached up to the time street following the river rl was confined and bounded on both sides b by extensive e grounds rounds and not far from the time spot where It came closest to lo the Nile began the he bridge of boats which united Memphis with time the island of ot Rhoda To Its right rig was situated a beautiful residence well known to her heras heras heras as the palace of ot the tIme widow to the left a stretching far heath where grew slender palm palm trees sycamores mores with spreading brunches and a ons' ons lons thicket of green blue tamarisk trees tree dispensing shade From this assembly of magnificent mag flowering lowerIng shrubs and ond ancient trees peeped forth a 0 long yellow yet yel cl low Jow building crowned with a 0 turret which was likewise a familiar object to her hem for It Jt hind hall often orten been mentioned I in n the governors governor's mansion and amid attended by Perpetua sho Perpetua-sho sho had even en visited there therea a few times This was the convent of Saint Cecilia an and sheltered the lie last nuns of or the tho orthodox faith suffered to remain at Memphis for while all the time theother theother other sisterhoods of ot their confession ha had long since been banished from the time c city ity these were permitted to remain ci i In ii their ol old quarters not only because t they hey were prized as good sick flick nurses I a dl distinction shared sharell with them b by or orders or or- ders dora of the l persuasion but much more because the cit city in its Callen fallen Cal fal l len en estate dl slid did not wish to dispense with time tuc hea heavy tax paid b by them theta yearly This represented the interest upon a a. considerable property which a a. wise pro progenitor of tho the had lefto left t to o the convent to bo sure under the prudential condition which was confirmed con con- on- on firmed f by br with his Imperial seal that this establishment so soon as the tho convert convent should bo be broken up together with tho and amid buildings build build- ings l which I nit owed Jlko- Jlko to the ft of the found founder r should become the I of or tho time Christian emperor reigning at nt tho time The Tho deceased in spite of or ofis h his is well founded dislike of oC everything took good g care not to stand I in n the way of ot these useful nuns and withdraw so 50 rich a possession from his hits Impoverished i native e city that it might fall Call into the hands of oC the wealth wealthy Moslems Mos Mos- Ios- Ios l lems enis The deed upon which the sisterhood sisterhood sisterhood sister sister- hood relied relle was good an and the time governor governor gover gover- nor who was both learned in tho the lawand law lawand lawand and minded Just-minded however anxious he lie had hall been of oC late years rs for tor the security of his own person had not only left leCt them undisturbed but had firmly and decidedly stood up for tor the validity of at l I their rights in opposition t to tc the the the- mighty head of or the Jacobite church Of Ot course the senate of oC tho the former capital capi capi- tal tab Memphis consented to Its ret reten reten- n- n lion tion and anti not only endured these sisters of another cre cIe creed md d but granted them many a n lift The Tue Jacobite clergy of oC the city over ovel I looked them and only at Easter gasler directed di directed di- di l- l their eyes toward to the tIme convent for COl on the Saturday before this festi festi- val vat conformably to a regulation Issued before the schism tho time nuns had to present to the Church of oC Christ embroidered priestly garments wine from the time superior vintages es of ot in the time neighborhood or of tho the pyramid with time the steps and a 0 consid consid- enable erable quantity of oC flowers an and pastry work Thus this old nunnery had h held its ground bround and although the tho whole hOle of or Egypt ha had turned either Jacobite or Moslem and man many old sisters In the la last t year ear had laid off ocr this mortal coil coll colI nobody y over ever asked how It came th that t the time number of or nuns alwa always s 's kept at tho tIme same notch until Instead of or the tho Cyrus Crus the tho Jacobite Archbishop Benjamin occupied the patriarchs patriarch's seat at Alexandria To him these heretical women at Memphis those hawks in the dove cote as ns he lie styled them were an and ho he was of opinion that tho the old document of or presentation ought to signify signIfY Inasmuch inasmuch as there thero was no longer any Christian emperor and the word Christian was in th time Hie deed that that at Its breaking up tho the convent convent con con- vent should fall tall to the only onlo Christian power In the time land at present viz luau him self and his church The will Ill-will which the patriarch chor- chor Ishell n against the had be beCa n intensified into enmity through the time opposition which he had met with I from rom him in this affair From this convent there reached reache Paula 11 s ears 8 a dirge lIr e. e Was 1 L mo vu iSO No this tug tol token cn must refer to another case ease of death for through the thc windows of her corner chamber opening upon th the Nile there thore came to her from the time street the time bridge of boats and a feu few v skiffs on the time stream time the stran strangely shrill walls wails of or lg Egyptian women No Jacobite inhabitant of or Memphis would have han dared to give such expression to his grief upon occasion of ot the tIme decease o of a a. and amid as the volume of ot the lime lamentations Increased she was sas trans tran fixed b by the time thought that her beloved belo uncle and friend had closed his dear deam- we 1 weary eyes jeyes Continued d Tomorrow Morning |