Show The Bride BrideI of I The Nile I 0 Dy us- Georff Georg GeorgI I beu I Author of ot An Egyptian Princess Prin Prin- I cess cees Uarda The Emperor I The Burgomasters Burgomaster's Wife t Homo Sum Joshua N. N Etc Etc Tho go governors governor's grandchild pretty prett I 10 0 learned to express ex Ox- year old Maria had hod prose press correctly and fluently In Greek rather than Coptic tlc but hut when imen Paula arrived she sho had not yet ot learned learnell to write the beautiful language o of ot tho Limo Hellenes Paula loved to Instruct lien her little cousin in this art and at first hOI her uncle and aunt had seemed to l be delighted with the time arrangement but bitt ver very soon the relation between Lady and her hor husbands husband's niece began began be bo- gan to tho the dl shape which It was to retain and now no the former had put a stop to the lessons and antI given as the ground for fOI this thit In Insulting In- In suiting proceeding that Paula had lied dictated die dic ted t. to her lien pupil whole passages extracted extracted ex ox- traded from h h her er r orthodox Greek prayer hook book This hind had certainly been done llono but with no sinister motive motivo whatever and tho passages selected had only con tamed sentences calculated to elevate the soul of or over overy Christian no matter what was his lila creed Tho little girl hind melted Into tears teams upon hearing hor her grandmothers grandmother's stern decree Although Paula had hall been very cry grave gravo during the time lesson hours nevertheless never never- the little girl ha had Imd conceived 1 n tender regard for COI her lion and with all the enthusiasm of a 0 half grown girl suCh girl would bo ho esteemed a 0 child ten years old In Egypt her Egypt her Wl heart clung lung t. t to toa a beautiful being whom she considered her superior In o CY respect and Paulas Paula's arms arnie opened wide ide to receive the thC child who poured ht Into the dull frost frosty atmosphere of or the life ICe that she sho had led Jed nt at her uncles But JUit ut saw something overstrained o unhealthy yes actually Imperiling to the sound faith of ot the tIme child In her pal passionate lonate lo love for tor her relation and It seemed to her as I If Marias Maria's affections had been ben sensibly withdrawn from herself herel since the they had been so plenteously bo d to d upon the Damascene And this Impression slon sion was w not a false one for tor the child H rare sense of oC Justice had bad rebelled against seeing her friend misunderstood stood slighted Plighted and often orten Judged mot most unjustly and so Maria Marin felt herself as bound so o far Car as In her lier Ja Ia lay to make up to the lovely 10 being whom she regarded as ns n a piece picco of perfection for tor hor her grandmothers grand grund- mothers mother's maltreatment But Dut was not riot the tho woman to I pass b by unnoticed such conduct on t Mi h.- h. part of ot the little girl She was wa h liar r grandchild her deceased sons son's only daughter and nobody should como come In between her and herself Thus she foi tOI foi bo bade bado e her visiting Paula In iu h her r chamber without special permission and art a Greek governess had been employed for forthe forthe or orthe the child particular orders orden wore were I h lien her to keep her lien pupil aloof from her Damascus cousin a as much as l lAll All AU this only aroused tho childs child's In Indignation In- In and tenderly as nB her grandmother grandmother grandmother grand grand- mother would sometimes fondle fondl her herand herand and although devotion de seldom allowed Maria l to be out of ot her sight yet th thero p Mf was Vas no rio real congeniality between tji tin tin- two and Paula was W undoubtedly undoubted t. t in I blame for this although against h hr 1111 i will and merely morely by fault tault of her exis exis- I tence Openly and by manifold In Insinuation Lady let Jet her husbands husband's c feel that she was alienating her grandchild grandchild grand rand child from her hen and so nothing was left leCt for tor Paula to do but to keep awa away from the tIme child to whom she was so sincerely I attached anti and only show her occasionally occasional I ly l' all the fullness of ot her lien love At last Jast the Ills HIs of ot life Ufo had so pressed upon her that she could no longer succeed succeed suc sue In imi assuming a n ga gayety et foreign to tolien her lien heart In being a child with children children chil chil- dren dlen and Maria noted well wen this change e and ascribed Paulas Paula's altered manner to the time sorrow sorro Inflicted I b by her grandmothers grandmother's ers er's harshness Maria could most frequently speak with her friend be before rare meal times for tor then nobody was paying any ammy heed to her hT and her grandmother had not prohibited pro- pro her lien from summoning her friend to table A visit to her hen room afforded ed the child chillI the tho greatest gratification for tor one ono reason because It was W n n. forbidden pleasure but no less because Paula In hen her lier own t thom om In an Rn entirely entirely en en- Urel light from rota anywhere else because there thore time tho they could see sec each cach other undisturbed kiss and amid talk as at unreservedly unreservedly un un- un- un reservedly ns aim the they pleased There Maria Iania confided to sympathetic ears cars nil all that passed In the ot of lien her little life liCe but admiration held back the time lIeh lively live live- ly h often orten child from tram making a a. concerning an any Impropriety Ct ety t or childish prank of or one whom she regarded reg as superior to all others In Ineer er e every great noble and amid exalted Paula had Just finished arranging her hem latin hail when Maria lalla knocked modestly at atho ho tIme door she door she who was as wont vont to rush like a 0 hurricane oven en into her grandmothers grandmother's grandmothers grandmother's grand grand- mothers mother's room She Sho did not riot fly fh at nt her like Iko the widow wIllow Susannah and her Un lively ly dau daughter Catharine but only kissed her while t arm with fervent devotion and then blushed for rapture as Paula bent I over o her pressing lien her lips upon her hall hair and tore forehead heRd while sho wiped tho the moisture from her glowing counte counte- nance nanee Thou Then she took Marias Maria's head affectionately af at- between her tier hands bands and exclaimed exclaimed ex ox- claimed How you do look m my pet pct Indeed the little girls girl's sweet pretty prell face tace was red rod as fire and her cy eyes s swollen wollen a though sIte she had hind been heen weepIng weeping weep weep- ing violently It Is not so 50 terribly hot answered Maria this Eudoxia this was Valt her Greek governess go s lIa says that Egypt In sum num- mner mer Is a tier fiery furnace a hell upon earth She Is IR quite sick from the time heat II lies R there Uk like e a n. fish on the tho sand fraud and and anel time the only good Hood thing about It IB is- is That sho lets Jets you run and excuses you OU from lessons Maria a assented to this with a a. slight ht nod but as al' no nn reproof toll followed owed she turned her head henl aside and looked Into her hor friends friend's faco face with a 0 gleam of mischief flits mis chief darting from her large lars expressive eyes Continued Tomorrow 1 ornIng |