The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1874-02-08

and the cross is of pearls the bem of limo
# cence You read what is inside now"
She took it and read the device on the in to
rlor rim: Crux per amore Amor per cruce'
"Ibe cross through love; Love through the
CROSS" he explained.
She replied by kissing the ring and handing
q 1t to him, as she SAID:
! =" Pat it on my finger, Henry, and only you
or God himself shall ever draw it off"
" You do not mean"
Hush how can You question himf But
fear he will not call me in that way. Who
o knows, perhaps we shall meet next year;
7 leave my father to God and you"
The old nun came back from the window
My child, am afraid l cannot stay any
longer she said.
her own.
God bless and reward you, my dear, dear
friend: You know all would say and yot
He kissed her hand, and, with an inehlble
look of holy calm, he Jewish convert left the
room, still glancing back at him.
Two months passed, and Lowenberc grew
better One morning large letter was brought
to him with the Madrid postmark. He opened
| IL hastily, and scanned it's contents The let
ter fell from his hands as he read, and a dizzi-
ness came over him he lay back on his couch,
deadly pale.
=" Is it anything bad about Maheleth p" tim.
idly asked little Thamar.
| No." he said, momentarily reused to anger
re TOOK up the letter again and nuttered,
"a million dollars !" The children thought
he was worse, and looked on with scared faces
The letter was from banker at Madrid
| saying that he was authorized by a person
deeply in Senior Cristalar's debt, but who
wished to remain nameless, to apprise him of
| a certain sum, million dollars, lying in ready
money at his command in Hauptnaun' 8 bank at
Frankfort. The person had been long wishing
to make this restitution, but had not till now
been able to ascertain his hiding place. The
Invalid was in a fever; he could not help |
thinking of the young Christian he had spurned
yet he tried to persuade himself it was not he,
but the man to whose knavery he lad owed his |
total ruiu.
Several days passed, and at last be wrote to
lfolcombe at the hotel he had been staying at.
In ambiguous terms he spoke of a generous
service undeserved by him and of his desire
to see him, if only once. But the Enplishmon
was gone and had left no address He then
wrote to his Madrid correspondent, urging him
10 Try ana discover the person from whom the
money had been sent; but the banker wrote
word that the whole transaction had been kent
very secret, and that, before it had become
snow, to him, it had passed through SO many
hands that it was impossible to find out the
hrst person concerned. There was a hint of
some American bank connected with it, and
the money had been originally paid down in
American gold but beyond this there was no
clue. Cristalar thought the Spanish banker
had been probably bribed to keep silence. and
q few more weeks sped by without his taking
any active measures about his newly found
wealth. He received and acknow lodged q let
ter OF advice from HaHptmann's bank telling r
MIN OF the sum at his disposal, and Haupt- I
mann himself came to call upon him and offer =
him his congratulations. The Spaniard, who =
still called himself by his German name. re-. :
eelved the visit of his former employer as a L
IN no wise elated by the sudden good fortune n
le was being congratulated upon. He did not t
mango his lodgings, but he hired servant il
md sent his daughters to the best Jewish =
school in the town. AS soon as he got well. y
Which was by rapid degrees, after he had ro, .
'eiyed the letter that once more made him a d
nn,ltLonalre he left his children in charge of y
tachel, and proceeded to London, where he IL
ldvert'sed daily for information of Henry &
loicombe. The weekly supplies in small-srns J
lad never discontinued, but he felt nssnreJ is
hat, notwithstanding all these blinds he cnnIJ Fl
rot be mistaken as to the name of his bene. q,
actor. 81
Meanwhle Maheleth in her Bohemian home ~ =,
eard from Rachel of her fathers fortune, his ~
estoration to health, and his journey to Eng p
END; She, too, wrote to Henry, and asked hun al
telt her II it were he that had thus returned "
ood Tor evil He simply said in reply that he G.
as free to do as he liked with his money, and hi
nat he thought Senior Cristalar knew better | y,
ow to use it than he did. 4;
Summer came again. and with IL Uapry uo1 vi
ombe the old Juden-Srasse was once mora I'd
eiore him, and then he learnt that Herr Low
noerg had gone three months ago to Madrid. TO
% mad been travelling in Italy and Greece. sa
nd mad never gone home to his old EupIish |
'untry-house, which now was let to good and Fl
esd no tenants tban He went to the
as nothing for it but to 90 and chat VIII w
achel and old Zmmermann about old times 50
I'd old friends. Pc
a week later he called again at the convent. frs
III the FORTRESS told him to wait. In the t 80
i me little parlor, unchanged and clean, he 70
aited Tor quarter of an hour, hoping and I'm I'M
eadlng to see Macbeth. She came in this the
ne alone. He took her hand in his, and VII
,ked hungry look into her eyes She said ow
him, smiling: do
o.. DO you see 1 have kept my promise It
We inc dear ring on my finger, and evory day VIII
lave SAID the rosary with it for Won, And ~
", you know, must thank yon" 10 10
cannot bear it don't for nv sake Ma hat
eth! Have you heard from your father ~ gro
No; he never tciH write, knew that: bnt me
ave heard OF him lie is N Spain he will pal
GIN again as banker, feel sure, and never bee
t till he has repaid youD he
~ ami WI. M'hE 10 DC repaid, except rM in reli
that. Do You remember that l was to asi. INV III
I inc same question asked already 7" fa .t
! snail ask 1t first, and then think Mag
Wei, Henry, if should say that, will disc
Wer II as you wish, provided you can gain her
fathers consent 2" ~ Som occ,
he young man looked blank, tho
L believe that is what God would wish mo "a .
TO- Henry. My father has no fnrtbor :, - | w