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Chapter III.
When Omar was gone, and father and
daughter were alone, Isaac came back to
the bureau, and said, in a strained voice,
"Rachel!"
''Yes, father
"Have you ever encouraged him?'
"Never -
care you telling me the truth?"
sWhy should you doubt me?"
Then why is it Whispered in Fez that
the daughter of Isaac Laredo
"If the young man is polite to me he is
not the only Moorish gentleman---
Isaac smote the bureau. ''Not the only
Moorish gentleman !'' he repeated. Girl,
do you know what YOU are saying?"
Rachel did not finch. Omar Benani
is nothing to me,'' she said. 'Al the
same, if any one loved me 1 should not
ask, is he Jew?' is he a Gentile?'
And if 1 loved anyone it would not be
because he was either one or other, but
because my love came from my heart and
1 could not help it. -
"Ask pardon of God, Rachel. sad
Isaac. 1T was Jewish mother VINO
bore you, yet you can forget the past OF
your own peop lie. /"
.sIIove has nothing to do with the past,
father said the girl. sIt only looks
to the future
Isaac sat down and rocked him like a
man overwhelmed 81 am punished for
nv fault" he said. "When you were a
child 1 separated from my brethren, and
YOU have been brought up among the
then, and read the Thorah night and
morning. 1 have not been good
Jew"
ssIf you had been,'' said the girl, "you
would have married me long ago to the
richest young man of your congregation.
No matter If did not love him What
does a Jewish woman want with love No
matter if I did not even know. him. A
Jewish woman must sacrifice herself to
her race"
ssHave done, child, have done," said
Isaac "God has darkened your UNDER
standing" Then turning to her as If by
a sudden thought, he said fiercely, But
if thought have loved you ten
derly but if l imagined; If once
dreamt that you could look beyond our
own people and marry one of these infidel
my witness-I had rather see you dead at
my feet p
Rachers head dropped, and she began
to cry. At sight of her tears the old man
softened "Dry your eyes. child" he
said. stAnd if Omar Benani is nothing to
you, there is no harm done, and he shall
come here no more. There-there-you
shouldn't sroil your pretty face.
My cloak, Rachel nave business in the
Sok.p
The girl took down his cloak and help
ed him on with it.
s'Now my staff That's right!
Crying. still? Foolish child, you shouldn't
do so. Rachel, come here. -
The girl came up to her father face to
face
ANSWER me again-is it true-ls this
Omar Benani nothing to you?',
Nothing" ;"
The tone was unfaltering. and Isaac was
"Then what is there to cry ,about9
the Kasbah-serve him right for drunk
ard and fool
A clock struck four.
s'Tut, tutl'' said Isaac. Four O'Clock,
and had business at the AdooPs at
three. This foolish prattle has kept me
late Mohammed is to come at five. :"
Rachel's face frightened. "Moham1ned
Adder -Rahman?" she asked.
'Mohammed Adder Rahman. repeat
ed the Jew. ~ am losing the best of my
partners today, Rachel, and I must go
~! WY us0A oAAe*o - - E-- ..L.l. o.l.A
ship"
Rachels eagerness increased. "Is
leaving us?"
stHe is-more fool be. Some qualms of
If you please, some wild goose
err and, some mission
"Then he is going away-Yes?"
II don't know, and don't care. Truth
his crazy folly. He might have done SO
we'll too Such q head such talents and
as honest as the sun.
s'Will he be long away?"
"Ask himself; he'll be here presently;
keep him till come And, Rachel"
said Isaac, his hand on the door handls
eyes, father?''
edo you love your old father?"
"You know do.
"And you would not shame him in the
eyes of his own people9"
"Not even in the eyes of his own
people"
"Then never speak again as you have
spoken today.-never, child, on your soul,
never! God blesses the increase OF His
chosen people, but only when they marry
among themselves. What has preserved
rs through poverty and persecution? The
sternal power, the inscrutable instinct
faith, one race. Love is strong, but race
is stronger. Remember. it was Jewish
woman who destroyed the captain of the
A ssyrians, and smote off his head with
his own fauchion. Goodbye, child, good
byeP
Chapter Nv.
The night began TO gather, and Rachel
stirred the stove and lit the lamp. While
doing so, she, paused at intervals as If
for familiar step. "Moham-
med A Abd -er. .Rahman,' - she thought che