Show The Bride r e of The Nile ills By Dr Georg Eber Ebert Author of ot An Egyptian Princess Prin PrIn- lne ln- ln cess cess e Uarda Tho The Emperor Tho The Burgomasters Burgomaster's s Wife Wit Homo Sum Joshua Etc Etc Eta Continued From rom Yesterday And why pray to what end screeched the old man Am m I to tell you Because a friend Is always a halt half lover and woman can never resign th the fourth part of such a 0 onel one ono By Uny l y no means I Interrupted Philip Phillp reprovingly She did so because she prizes and esteems me me-I me I am not vain vain- vain feels attached to me as aB to a brother and could not boar they boar they aro hor her own words words words-to to beguile my affections oven for an hour This Is noble grand worthy of herself and however much all that Is within mo mu struggled against It It I saw myself constrained to admire her truthfulness iler her genuine friendship friendship friend friend- ship her hor unselfishness and ands womanly tenderness of sensibility No do not Interrupt me again do not mock at mo now- now It Is 19 no small thing for tor a proud maiden conscious of her own dl dignity to lay hay bare th the tho weakness of or hor her heart before a man by whom sho she knows herself herself her hor- self sel to bo beloved as ns she sho had done a I ago She Sho called me hor benefactor bone bene factor herself hersel my sister and whatever motives you ou hate hato her on account of ot an anold anold anold old prejudice without knowing her may wrongfully ascribe to her I I-I I I believe In her and understand her too Could I do otherwise than clasp the hand which sho chic proffered mo as she sho entreated entreated en en- treated me with moist eyes to continue to bo be her friend her defender her ky- ky And yet yet Whence shall I draw the strength to desire nothing more of or hor her whom 1 love lovo so 80 passionately passionate passionate- ly than a kindly glance a calm pressure pressure pressure pres pres- sure of tho the hand an Intellectual assent i to what I am saying How shall I re retain retain retain re- re tain tranquility and self control whoa when I see lice her tier In lu the tho possession of ot that handsome god deml-god whom only yesterday yesterday yester yester- da day I 1 was despising as a a. good for nothing l' l reprobate What Ice will cool the fevered glow of or this burning What lance lanco pierce the dragon of or passion passion pas pas- sion slon which Is IH raging here bore Thirty years old was I ere I knew tho the meanIng meanIng meaning mean- mean Ing of that love lovo of ot which our poets poet sing Only Onh through h them or tho the plaint of or some friend whose weakness I deplored de deplored deplored de- de was teas I at all acquainted ll with such a n. sensation and now now that love lo has overtaken ino mo so 80 late and anti power how shall Khali I f I. I ht how liow w can cnn I rid my my- subjected mo me to to Us its unconquerable self of ot It UH its IS thrall I tell you ou trusty friend you ou who aro good enough to lo call mo son and child epithets that recall m my lost long father I tell you OU nothing Is 18 loft for me to do but to leave len you ou and amI this cSt city I must fleeher fleo flee her neighborhood and 1111 seek seck out a t now home far tar from her with whom I 1 might have been as blessed as the saints In paradise and who nevertheless nc has hns made me mo moro more wretched retched than tho the 1 lost oat condemned to perpetual fire faro I want to tobe tobo bo bl gone I must away of or you who know so 80 much can not teach mo me how t to o kill out this passion or transmute 1 it into cool brotherly regard So saying Philippus who was standIng standIng standing stand- stand Ing quite close to tho the old man covered covered cov coy ered erect his face tace with his hands but at nt these last words sprung to his foot feet with youthful elasticity pulled his hands awn away from tom his face tace and cried out In a hoarse voice beside himself with Indignation and deep so solicitude solicitude solicitude so- so And do you OU say this seriously Arc Are you a 0 rational man so steeped In foIl folly folly fol foI- fol- fol l ly Is It t not enough for you OU to have fooled awa away your our own happiness on OIl this how how shall I 1 call her hor Do you comprehend comprehend comprehend com com- at last why I warned warnell you against tho the patrician blood Sruth I gratitude tho the love lovo of ot a 0 sterling man man- man mrm-I mrm what cares she sho about them A Away vay with I that little minnow from Crom her hook I trample It in tho the dust I Here comes a afine I fine fat fish swimming along likely hell he'll bite Will wm you sacrifice to her herand herand herand and that rascally Orion Orlon the health and happiness of ot tho the declining years ears of ot an old man who has haM grown rown to love you OU as a son on because you deserve to tobe tobe tobe be sO BO loved Will you OU stud study workman that you are you OU m man m of ot giant Intellect intellect Intel Intel- lect the zealot in duty's path the tho fa favorite ta- ta a- a of or the gods sigh yourself away like a forsaken maiden or do like tho the sick love Sappho In the comedy who leaps over tho the cliff the spectators shako shake with laughter Stay my boy Stay and Ill I'll show you OU how a man mon mo may get et rid of the passion that dishonors him Do show It me returned Philippus Philippus Philip Philip- pus with muffled voice I want nothIng nothing nothing noth noth- ing better Think you that I 1 am tun not ashamed of my weakness It ill III be becomes he he- comes me me whom destiny created for an anything else than a signing sighing swain and dreamer Ill I'll do 10 battle wrestling with might and main hut but here here In n Memphis hero Zero in her proximity whore where as her kyrios I am dally dany compelled to see sec ce her again and day after day submit to new now and shameful overthrows Hero forever at her side with her I Iam Iam iam am worsted In battle baUlt and see seo myself ruined bod body and soul Thero There Is not room for us two In tho the same samo city In In Inthe the tho same samo country I Tomorrow Morning |