Show The Br BrIdeI Bride de of I The Th Nile Nilen I n fly Dj- G Georff Georg GeorgI org ii cr w I Author of An Egyptian PrinI Princess Prin Prin- I cess cess Uarda The Emperor i The Burgomasters Burgomaster's Wife I Homo llomo Sum Joshua Etc Etc s Shaking Slinking her head In tho the negative the child asked Is the Jockey Jocko your stammering Hiram HIram Hi HI- ram rain the tue man mali of whom they are In Pu pursuit ran I t 7 1 I am ens afraid eo so Yes yes sal said the time little girl Ju Just t walt wait They They The Oh dear ilear It will wIn trouble you ou again I again I do 10 believe they belle they did ld su sn they had his shoes shoes shoes-I I did dill not pay Ilay much attention The talk taUt was all the thO about a freedman a stammerer Then tho they havo o certainly pursued an Innocent man cried Paula with a ahen hen heavy V sl sighs sigh h 3 again aln seating herself ather ather at ather her toilet table In fn order to tu finish dressing While her hands were moving as at best beat tho they could sho she sunk Into a 0 profound reverie answered the child only by monosyllables and let her fumble tumble about In her Iser open trunk an and Maria Marla drew forth Corth the ornament whence so handsome hand hanri- some a Jewel had hall been abstracted an annun and amid nun lung flung it around her hel neck Again ln there was waa a n. l knock nock at the tue door and Catharine entered tho widow Susannah's Susannah's Su Su- Su- Su sannah's little dau daughter tho the young oun girl with whom tho the as' as wile wife wanted to wed her hem handsome son but sho looked pretty and anel plump neat too loo as a pin ant and moreover er sho she had a n. fresh blooming attractive little fa fare face c. c When she laughed she showed two rows of small white teeth set Jet far tal apart from ta-om one another and her clear eyes cyus looked out upon poa the world as gladly as as' though she expected naught but contentment con con- there or 01 material for tor harmless harmless harm harm- less amusement She too loo was an applicant ap ap- ap- ap for foJ Paulas Paula's favor ta but by hy no means with the whole whole-soule enthusiasm of Maria Many a 0 time lime In Indeed she sho was so demonstrative In iii her affection af af- af that the tho elder eider girl had hall to check her but on tho lie other hand han sho alto would could turn tun her back on the Damascene Damasceno with anger disdain and anti pouting if sho she had treated hOI her at all an coolly or seemed to think less of her than than Maria To be he sure It ft rested with Paula to put a stop to this pettishness on tho the part of or the humming bird that usually haw had a comic aspect b by a pleasant pleas wor word or a 1 kiss and yet et without such friendly ly advances Catharine would have havo been capable of or Indulging In temper ill to the end Toda Today she he threw throw herself on her tier bosom and when Paula beed h lice her I more positively than usual iii please aso to allow her first to complete her toilet without seeming to be hurt In the least I she joined little Maria and took the necklace out of her hor hand in iii order to lr try it on herself herselt Beautifully wrought and amid t set ci with pearls as It was she was wonderfully pleased please with It It only the I empty empt case whence Hiram had cut the emerald with his knife kniCe spoiled th this th whole hole In her e eyes es It was wils still how- how over a regal ornament and after she had taken a great Ireat bunch of ostrich feathers out of or the tIme trunk she showed showe her little friend with comical assumed dignity how the empress and the prIncess princess prin prIn- cess at court bowed an and nodded graciously to their subjects This gave rise to a great reat deal of laughing lauS but hut when Paula Paula's toilet was a last complete com corn and amid she attempted to take tako the ornament away from fromn Catharine the empty case bent ben by lIy Hiram's knife hung In ims th the I light ht lace of or her overdress o Maria picked It loose and Paula threw the tue necklace back Into InlO the trunk While lIle she Rhe locked lOCkel this she sho asked aske Ca- Ca if It sho she had met Orion I Orion repeated she he In a tone as ali though I nobody cI v oT- oT i j. b Ik it ait r nun nunc c Ve two t-o came up UI t together ethel he wanted to see Ice after the wounded Have o you ou anything to sa say to him At this site she blushed and anti looked suspiciously sus sits at Paula who however only replied b by a careless perhaps an and then hen called calle out while she hun hung tho the nh- nh bon 1015 jon around her neck to which her trunk l key o was attached Come girls It Is time now for foi breakfast I am ama not nol going down own to to- to ml day ay Ah Ahi said Maria In a tone of ills dis appointment grandfather s is vcr very weak we-ak and grandmother has hils to stay with him an and if you will not either come como then lien then lieu then I must eat by myself will for Cor Catharines Catharine's chariot charlot Is waiting ant and she has to go o home again directly Oh do como come Do so 50 for tor ni my sake you OU do not know how horrid Eudoxia can be when the weather Is 11 so hot Yes go AO with wiLls her pleaded pleadell Cath Cath- anne arine What hat In th tIme the world is to keep keel you ou up UI here liere As for tor or the tho rest toward evening e Ill I'll conic como again with mamma Pleasant answered Paula but bul I must visit the tho sick first May Ic I go IorO with you asked askel the tho humming bird lm pd CO caressing lien her I it in L uuna ncr liCe nanas am and cried Sue She only wants to go goo where Orion Orlan is sho she Is so 80 fond of or him him him- Hereupon stopped 1 tho tim child's childs fj mouth but when nhen Paula sig sig- IS to her with quicker breath that lint site she wished to speak sleak with Orion con coti- vcr very ery grave e matters Catharine turned her back bacle upon lice her with a quick d defiant flunt gesture an and went upstairs pouting pout pout- ing InA while Maria gH glided e down the time same sume upon the balusters A few days before who was hardly sixteen years cars old would woul have ha gla gladly l followed followell her In the tue same sam wa way Paula mc meanwhile knocked a at th the lest first of the sick 1 rooms oon an and amid approached it as ns softly as It was opened by 11 tho the nurse a nun from the tIme convent coment of St St. Catharine Orion whom she sho sought ought had been there but left Jeet a short time before In lii the time first apartment lay time the woun wounded wound wound- ed caravan Carn guide In the tho second the time deranged girl In a hall mill a adjoining time the first room which was beautifully furnished fur fur- having been destined for fOl ills dis guests sat two men absorbed ab ab- ab- ab sorbet In conversation The They were vero tho the Arabian merchant and the surgeon The latter was not mud mitch over 30 years of or age and was isas a vcr very tall tail raw boned young man man whose clothing consisted of oC neat nelt but coar coarse C stuffs devoid old of any ornament what what- ever He lIe had hod a pale lale intellectual coun coun- lighted up by brilliant black eyes ees expressing amiability as well as keenness ss an and animation Ills His h check cheek bones were much too prominent the time lower part oC or his face was waN small u uI ugly I pinched as RS It wore while his lila IoU lofty and broad brow crowned the lie whole as appertaining to a as aa a glorious cupola sets sots the t seal Be-al ca of worth woith upon a plain ell I Ii ee This r man devoid ol of oC grace as ho was would nevertheless have hardly been overlooked ove in any auy circle of ot men men however how how- over ewer distinguished looking on n account of tho time striking In Individuality l of his lila lIe He had bad Just been ena engaged ed In au an animated conversation con with l tIme the Arab who during a two days days' ac ac- ac had bad conceived conce a high re regard re- re gard for tor him which was fully tully rt At t last their discussion turned I Orion and the tho physician an aim indefatigable upon sable gable winker who had no respect ct for tor auho anybody who led let an Idle life liCe of pleasure pleas pleas- ure after artel f making all due ue recognition of his excellent parts anti and line fine school record Judged him more harshly handily titan than j time the old gentleman To time the physician all human existence was sacre sacred and everything seemed to him worthy of or annihilation that threatened to destroy destro the bo body or so soul 1 of a man The Tho ruin that Orion hall hail brought upon uon the unhappy un un- un- un happy r Mandana h a was known IO to him as cia Well as the manner In which I lc I he mh had trifled with this the affections of or marty other women and these timings things constituted con con- him In itt his e eyes a hurtful and dangerous member of society c Continued 1 hunting |