Show 1 The Bride of I I The Nile I I By UY Georg Eb Eber ra I wI w- w I Author of or An E Egyptian PrinI Princess Prin Prin- I cess cess Uarda n The Emperor The I Bur Wit Wife IS Homo Sum hum Joshua Joshu Etc Etc Continued Continue from Yesterday Th The Tho old woman could not content herself with such Ruch funeral solemnities for tor everything c had boon hoen different from the funerals u usually conducted at Memphis No priests a 1 retinue of horsemen mourners mourner the tho lead dead mans man's own eon son among them riding too loo al althou although although al- al thou though h e everybody knew that custom required their going oln afoul afoot A pitiful screeching of miserable boys bos at the grave gravo ra o of such a man and then that stentorian chorus cholus from the throats throat of ofa a A. thousand wh why It was like to split the tho drum of her ear ear However sho she could stand that last for the time had hind done dono It out ant of reverence for the tho deceased This thought even en touched her hor faithful I heart art and drove the tears to her eyes cee but at t tho the same Barno time roused her hor Indignation for had she sho not Been common people burled buried In Ina Ina ina a more marc solemn manner and with more moro Imposing ceremonies than the great groat good who had endowed time the Church so splendidly too Yes Yos these Jacobites' Jacobites Nobody else elso could coUll hao acted so ungratefully such fluch a crime rime only their heretical chief could have committed In St. St Cecilias Cecilia's Convent It was known from tho the abbess down to tho the youngest novice that tho the patriarch had notified the tho bishop through h a 0 carnor carrier carrier car car- rier nor dove o that tho clergy were wore not to participate In the tho funeral services cervices Good had d been beon much wrought up b by this command and yet It had not been In hi his hla power to counteract it al although although although al- al though he would follow Callow tho the coffin In person himself and did dill not deter the presbyter from ac accompanying him For that matter young oung Master Orion did not look at t all as If It he Ime meant to let this Insult to his father go o unpunished But whose arms armR is long enough to reach to time the patriarchal hol see Except Except- but hut not that can not be possible at atthe atthe the time hare bare thought of ot It cold chills ran over her But yet et still still- still How very affably that great general from over yonder onder had spoken with him Heavenly Heavenly enly only Father ather If It he like so o man many unprincipled unprincipled un un- un- un principled E Egyptians should abjure the holy Christian religion and antI accept the teachings of the tho lying prophet of tho the Arabs It was tempting to be he sure suro for tor profligate men who wha could take Into their houses half a dozen or more wives without being chargeable with sin A gentleman like hike Mr III Orion could support them thorn for the abbess had hall said laid how tho the whole world regarded the tho ho great Mu Mu- u- u kaukas as a n very wealthy wealth man and the tho head clerk of tho city even could not compute the time sum of ot his Immense riches Yes yes es Gods Gads dispensations are hable h Why should He lie smother ono one under a shower of gold while to man many poor folks Ho lie does not give enough to still the tho pangs of ot hunge hunger hunger hun hun- ge ger r At tho time close of this effusion the women women wo wo- men reached home homo and here hero for the first time limo Paula breathed freely Awn Away awa away with that passion be It hato hate or orlove orlove orlove love that was forever striving for dominion dominion dominion do do- minion over her Not until all nfl was WIlS past between Orion and herself and tho the last tie brol broken en that bound her to the governors governor's mansion could she sho rightly enjoy enJo her new freedom and tranquil happiness h In that beautiful home haOle for which she ha had to thank tho the forethought of the doctor She Sho had gilded Into a n true haven of ot repose where nothing was tacking lacking that she sho needed according to admonitory discourse Here wore vere good people who appreciated her many a athing athing thing that she was fitted to do and that chimed In with her Inclinations and moreover moreo rich opportunity for sowing and reaping affection Besides this a short and shady walk wall brought her to the convent conent where among pious professors of err her own faith raith she sho could Icily dally attend the tIme worship of or God as she sho had been accustomed to do In her childhood She Sho had felt reU a great reat lon longIng longing long long- Ing for tor such spiritual food and how fully could It be supplied supplied supplied sup sup- plied now by the old abbess the tho widow of a noble from Constantinople Constantinople Constantinople Constanti Constanti- nople who had l known her parents hIo How gladly the time vigorous old lad lady told of th nn and regal but beauty banut of that unit Hail dl tl o oearl ln giving her life Sli She Sha could pour o r out outher outher her lien sorrows Into the bosom of this matron for she ehe treated h hOJ jr as ag a adear adear dear daughter given to her In her old age And her hosts hosts' What kind of or good people they were worl and right remarkable remarkable remarkable remark remark- able too In their wa way She lad hall not dreamed that there thero could be such queer and at the thc same Bame time such amiable creatures In existence There was old Rufus In the first place a hale hearty old graybeard who with his white snot hair and long flowing be beard put one ono In mind partly partI of the apostle John partly parth of or ofa ofa ora a warrior grown ra g-ra gray In conflict What hat imata hata a a. tender loving 10 heart he ho had In spite of his occasional brusqueness of manneRs manness manness man- man ness neRs In obligatory obligator Intercourse with hIs Ills fellow men when his views view clashed clash clash- ed cd with theirs ho he showed himself waggish wag wat- gish Ish and good tempered She Sho had never met a 1 sweeter spirit nor one ono of sincerer character and could well veil understand how It must rile and vex vox such a person to be obliged day n nand n namI nand and amI day out to be at least In seeming something different from what shat he really was He lie too belonged to her church allowing his hi wife and daughter to attend worship In the convent coment and nevertheless having to appear himself to be a n Coptic Christian and make It convenient con to repair with his hi family on certain holidays to the Jacobite church whose plain of worship were not at all to his taste Rufinus's property sufficed for a n comfortable subsistence e for himself an and his and nevertheless In n his fashion Cashion he ho was busy from morning till night since however or his occupations not only brought In nothing but made draughts upon hi his treasury treasur everybody e knew him to bo ho a n man of fortune and so 50 soon oon as ho he had hod been recognized for tor fora tora a h by one of the tho patriarchs patriarch's spies this circumstance would have ha brought upon him persecution exile and evidently tho the confiscation of oC his goods It was necessary then to be he prudent and If the old man could have ha-e only found a purchaser for his house hous and garden arden In a 1 city whore where there were ten times as man many buildings standing empty empt as there were occupied ones he would long since have decamped In order to seek a new home homo for tor himself and his lear dear ones Most elderly people of quick Impulses Impulses Im Im- irn- irn pulses and not too 10 read ready wits need needa neella a to serve as a trigger or orrest orrest orrest rest for thought and ho was fond of using using- thus two t sayings one ono one of or which was As surely hs as man Is the measure of or all things s and anI tho the other referring to his Ida house As certainly as I would like to bo ho of oC this rattle trap Thin Thill trap rattle-trap by the thea a way consisted of or ofa ora a well ell built very spacious dwelling with a garden that In former days lays would have havo commanded a high price on account of or its Us proximity to the water Shortly before the In Invasion slon of Egypt by the Arabs bs he ho had to bo be sure bou bought ht It for tal n a song and that Indeed Indeed so so swiftly do limes times alter from alter from froma a Jacobite Christian who had fe been n forced Into sudden Slight flight by Cyrus Crus who was patriarch then thon and a because because because be be- cause he lie had succeeded In ism converting cOl tho the orthodox slaves In his employ to his creed Continued d Tomorrow Morning |