, 1886-12-09
A DAUGHTER OF JACOB.

not go forth and lash their tender flesh?
How | could stand and smile upon
them as they writhed under the whist
ling, cutting lash. They hate, despise
and heap ignominy upon me. II
whom you call a daughter OF Jacob.
Father, are you dumb? Do you hear
me-
She was n grand, a beautiful creature.
There was the fierce beauty of the tiger
cat about her now as she TODD there in
the faint, crimson light of the money
changers office. Her face wa aglow
with rage; every limb and muscle of her
superb person quivered with passion.
The old man, over three score and
ten, with n beard as white as the snow
drifts outside falling upon his hollow
chest, raised his trembling hand, COM
handing the girl to be silent while he
spoke:
"Rebecca, our race is n lo~ng-suffering
one. We await the lapse of years often
before we strike; but when the blow
falls the victim q%uivers in agony. We
never forget a wrong; we never forgive
an injury. You. my child, are adaugh-
ter of Jacob. In your veins COURSES the
liz naIa M" ~ tha chris.
,;an1 lid lao hne os foint r,va If
n'oon,,ah, i;ahts TO hida owav and van.
ish when you, the glowing, scintillating
suns ray, sweep athwart them. The
lion of the desert is strong, and when he
roars the sons of man tremble. Be. then,
not the queen, the fierce purring tigress,
but the deadly cobra, for in the sting Of
u,o su,oo,hI, oI;dinn eo,nort ia ,he hone
80 -. ea,aI;tn y
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- and Iorrar The eain,
,,s,I;nu ~ har dross and liz doon.
49, woras q, hor fathar ,Yore ,ha
onlv so,rds ,bo, broLe the ominous
nainfuI silence Of tho onice
The crimson liars Of light from the
coIoraJ ,Iohes fell unon the crouchinp
Girls face dding warmth fire Ia The
surga of Int. I'm, avv.nt over those
beanteous features The thin nostrils
ouivered md the yelled broys tbrobbed
as she pressed her hands convulsively to
her heaving bosom and listened hun.
,r;iv araoJ;l,, 1r;nL;rn IN a,cL word
that fell from her Tiers lips.
and the cobra stinps to the deathYp
40 the death. ever. nlways,"
"And the lionYr
Not ALWAYS kills
But maneles. Yes. mangles the vic
tim. Depriyes him of his beauty. causes
him to hate. despise and Ioathe himself
ns he secs in the glass fine ruin worked
will be the lion"
The girl arose with composed features
" " Gu -
made mn her mind what she should do.
She would mangle her victim. She
would not be the cobra. The fatal sting
would smart for an instant and then all
would he over. No; she will not be the
cobra. She will play the part of the
lion U.r victim, abau lao u,anolad H..
shall sec his possessions mass from him.
He shall hate the day he was ever born
rs he writhes under th, sh.up. white
cruel teeth of the lion.
Love blinds YOU. Rebecca.r
"Loye lifts the sca,cs from my ovc.
father. | do low him That Won know
/ love hir woman never before
loved
.sh NV noor cb;ld !, !. in ,ba blood
The maidens of orr race love nil or
nauoht in naurht. There ia not the
"' n |a
The law, streom of pasaion II ian mart
of the curse. A part of the CURSE"
The old man turned away took ,
small lamp from the side bracket and
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