Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1888-04-20
HERR PAULUS,
MS. RISE, HIS GREATNESS AND HIS
FALL.
ny Waiter Besant, Author OF "An Sorts
and Conditions of Men, ETC., etc.
The Right of Translation rs Reserved.)
BOOK THE THIRD.
CHAPTER XV.-A WEDDING DAY

CHAP TER XN.-A WEDDING DAY.
ut isn't for the marriage that am cry
ing, Miss Brudenel," said Lavinia; paul
will make good husband, Pun sure. The
like of him-clever and soft and easy led
mostly make good husbands when they
don't take to drink. But its the awful
bhrowing away of the most splendid chanc-
es that were ever offered to any young cou-
pie. That's what feel He was offered
only yesterday-for a last chance-a half
partnership. and to take the money him
self, and two thousand pounds down, and
he threw it up. And why' All for sill
~ Bcruple. All because he would have to
work by his clevernes5 and not by the
Spirits at all. Why, l knew from the be-
ginning that he couldn't be medium.
You can tell medium at first sight.
There's look in a mediums eyes, even
In such q medium as Emanuel Chick,
though he does make the whole room
smell OF rum Paul's eyes never had that
look"
"Oh but Mrs. Medlock, Paul and Hetty
felt that it would not be honest" said ST.
byl.
"I.'s as honest trade as any. There's
pretence everywhere. And isn't 1t throw
ing In her own mothers teeth reflection
on her own mother-that she won't let
him carry on that trade ? How are they
10 live, should Ike to know And they
are going, and shall lose my daughter !;
because she Gays that she will never, new
or, never let that good old gentleman who
offered Paul the partnership know where
her husband is living. Pve lost my girl
She wasn't altogether what she might
have been; she would never help her
mother in the way of her profession. And
she has thrown away the most beautiful
and heavenly gifts of clairvoyance. Oh !
what sin aud shame it is ~
Then the two girls left her, and walked
slowly away.
st is all over now" said Bethiah.
"There is nothing left to do but to take
him back 10 America. Sibyl don pub
lish any story about him."
."My dear, never intended to-"
"Don't let Lady Augusta publish any
thing. She said she was going to-you
know-at the hall the other day. 1t might
follow Paul and fnd HIM out and make
him unhappy. :. HIS only chance is to for
get everything"
Can he ever forget %
You don't know my boy" said Bethiah.
"lf he wans to forget it he will put it be
hind him and forget it in q week. He
forgot 10 write Il me, or to his parents, for
some years. Why? Because of the in
congruty between the bare, ugly ruth,
and his p etenSl1uS. | suppose 1t WoIld
have maze him uncomfortable. 50 while
he was III New York he was the Signor
Paolo-he learned the language OF a wan
dering ItaliAn--the native village and the
general st0re-the village shOp-were for
gotten aid 30 were his father and his
mother, AID al his old friends. They had
to be forgotten. Else he would have felt
uncomfortable"
He coud make believe, in fact"
ooh Yes. Nobody in the world could
make believe better. | am quite sure
that he felt himst If an Italian when he was
Signor PABLO. and ne felt himself Teacher
OF the A cient Philosophy, and believed, in
a kind of way, in his AbyssiniAn Sage,
Why you heard what Lady Augusta sad
of him. il he had not believed himself. in
what he was teaching them, how could he
have impressed her so profoundly p
Nv mere did be get niS wisdom from p
"Well, Sibyl, | come OF a Puritan stock,
and so | think he got it out OF certain
Book IN which he used to read great deal
our old arden declaiming aloud he splen-
did passages OF Isaiah and Ezekiel. He
drew upon mis- memory. ] am sure OF II,
because Cict y once tried to reproC uce
some of his scOurse, and | remembered
the ideas and The lAuguage"
HAS he communicated with his moth
er ?"
Eyes. made him write. He expressed
his penltt nee for his long silence, and sad
that II he had been doing any good Tor
| himself h9 should have written before :;
but that he was ashamed to tell the story
of ill-spt 1T time. | have dissuaded nun
from telling ali The story, or any or II. HIS
mother would be TOO truly Mortified II she
knew it. He told her, however, that he
was bringing wife home with him.
''Rnf " SihIl hhGW Will HettE Tx
living with the old people p
"She viii! not live with them. Paul ca u
never 10 back to The little town. l thin
he must live in the country, but near a
great toWn-perhaps near Boston. IL Is
not likely that people will remember Sig
nor Paolo, even in New York, and in Bos-
ton they have probably never even heard
of him. 1t WAS only, among spiritualists
that he was known"
"Do you thilk that Paul will ever be
able to do the rough work of a Journalist
Have they not 10 attend meetings and be
up all night and run about perpetually p
II do not expect that ne Will do that.
But our journals want all kinds OF Work
present reading of every kind Paul will
quickly learn to provide the kind of thing
which will take aud sell. He is quick to
see. and know that he can write
Poor Paul Poor Hettyp
'She Is not to be pitled at all. she
"Bethiah" Sibyl touched her hand-lt
IL a womans sign of affection and con
sideration. why Is it--why did moi
Paul fall in love with you :"
"Well, Sibyl, don't quite know. 1t IL
just rs well as 1t IL. For my part l have
always loved the boy--and If he had re
minded me that he was not, after all. m!
brother, might-but this is rubbish.
am his sister and love him just as mucl
~ ever. And 80, you see, Sibyl, rs an
his sister, can never let him want, cal
II"
A week later Tom and SHY. stood upor
the platform at st. Pancras. They Wer
ccme to say goodbye to the man who hat
saved their fortunes and persuaded con
sent to their marriage out OF Mr.. Bruder
81.
"For such services," said Tom. 81 woul
even shake hands with a dy namitavd."
1t was not an ordinary leavetakins
They could not say Come again soon,' o
"We expect yOu over again next year" o
ave shall not he happy until you repea
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