The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-11

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| In this latter such was his success that
| losers made complaint, unjust but effect
ual, to the king, so that Law was Obliged
to leave Paris for time. He had dwelt
! long enough in Paris, this double tured
man, this student and creator, this gam
| bier and gallant, to win the friendship of
Philippe Of Orleans, later to be regent OF
France and gay enough had been the life
they two had led-so gay so intimate,
that Philippe gave promise that, should
he ever hold In his own hands the govern
ment of France, he would end Law ban
| ishment and give to- him the opportunity
he sought. Of proving those theories of
finance which constituted the absorbing
ambition of his life.
Meantime Law, ever restless, had passed
from one capital Of Europe to another,
dragging with him from hotel to hotel the
young child whose life had beenc in such
feverish and unnatural SURROUNDINGS =" He
continued to challenge every? hazard fear
less, reckless. cOntemptuous, and Withal
Wretched,. as one, must be who. after
years. of effort. found, that he could not
Danish from his mind the. pictures of
| dark-foored prison. and of a knife-s stab
In the dark, and Of raging, awful waters,
and of girl beautiful, though with sealed
lips and heart OF Ice. From time to time,
| as was we'll known, Law returned to Eng
land. He heard Of the Lady Catharine
Knollys, as might easily be done In Lon
don; heard of her as a young woman kind
of heart, soft of, speech, with tenderness
for every little suffering thing; a beautiful
young woman, whose admirers listed
| scores; but whos7never yet even accord
ing to the eagerest gossip Of the capital,
had found a sutton to whom she gave word
or thought of love.
So now at last the arrogant selfshness Of
his heart began to yield. His heart was
broken before 1t might soften, but soften
at last it did. And so he
built up in his, soul the image of
a grave sweet saint, kindly and gentle
famed. TO this, image--ah, which
of us has not had such -. a
shrine = he brought in secret
the homage of his life, his confessions.
his despairs. his hopes his resolutions;
guiding thereby all his life, as we'll as
poor mortal man may do failing ever of
his own standards, as all men do yet
barking ever back to that secret sibyl,
reckoning all things from her, for her, by
her. g.. -. -..-.~
There came at LENGTH one chastened
| hour when they met..i calmness, when
| there was no longer talk of love between
them, when he stood before her as though
| indeed at the altar Of some marble deity.
| Always her answer had been that the past
| fessed to love a man, not knowing what
that man was; that she had suffered. but
| that it was better SO, since it had brought
| understa nding. Now, in this calmer time,
| she begged of him knowledge Of this
child, regretting the wandering life which
had been its portion, saying that for
Mary Connynge she. no longer felt horror
and hatred: Thus it was that in a hasty
| moment Law had impulsively begged her
| to assume some sort Of tutelage over that
| unfortunate child :, 1t was to his own
amazement that he heard Lady Catherine
! Knollys consent, STIMULATING that the child
| should be placed in a Paris convent for
| two years. and that for two years John
Law should see neither his daughter nor
| herself. Obedient as child himself he
had promised. "4 + ...... $780,.
| Nov, go away" she then had said to
him. go your own way. Drink. dice,
game and waste the talents that God hath
| given you. You have made ruin enough
for all of us. 1 would only that it may
not run so far as to another generation.'
| So both had kept their promises; and
now: the two years were done, years spent
| by Law more naanfully. than any of his
life. His fortunes he had gathered to-
gether, amounting to more than a million
livres. He had sent once more for his
brother Will. and thus the two had lived
for "somea time inn company, in lower: .Eu
ever in his Observation-Disclosures of banking
and finance-theories then new, now
outlived i'm great part, though fit to be
called a portion of the great foundation
| Of the commercial system Of the world.
1t was wiser and soberer and ripper John
Law, this man who had but recently re-
| ceived a summons from Philippe Of Or
| leans to be present in Paris, for that the
king was dying, @and that all France,
France the bankrupt and distracted, was
on the brink Of sudden and perhaps fate
full change. '
With quick revival of all his Highland
superstition. Law hailed now as happy
harbinger the fact that, upon his entry
into Paris, the city once more of his
hopes, he had met in such fashion this
lady Of his : dreams, even at
such time as the seal of silence
was lifted from his lips. 1t was no won
der that his eye cleaned, that his voice
took on the old vibrant tone, that every
gesture. in thought or In spite of thought
assumed the tender Difference of the lover
1t was a fair woman; this chance guest
of the highway whom he now accosted-
bronze haired. b1ue-eyed, soft of voice
queenly Of nlien. gentle, calm and truly
lovable. 0. what waste that those arms
should hold nothing, that lips such a:
those should know no kisses, that eyes like
those SHOULD" never swim in love! Wha;
thief Of this wonnan's life, felt his hear
pinch again in the old, sharp anguish o
remorse, bitterest' because unavailing.
For the Lady Catherine herself Their
had been also many changes. The dealt
Of her brother, the Earl of Banbury, ha'
wrought many shifts in the circumstance
of a house apparently pursued by unkin'
fate. Left practically alone and carin
little for the life Of London. even afte
there had worn away the chill of suspi
cion which followed upon the popula
knowledge of her connection with: tn
escape Of Law from London, Lady Cath
arine Knollys turned to life and worl
suddenly grown vague and empty. Trave
upon the continent with friends, occasion
al visits to theold family house in Eng
land, long sojourns in this or the othe
eity-such had been her life-quiet, sweet
reproachless, and unreproaching. For tn
present she had taken an hotel In tn
older part of Paris, in connection with ne
friend the Countess Of Warrington some
time connected with the embassy of tina
Lord Stair who was later to act as sp
for England in Paris, now so soon to knoN
tumultuous scenes, With these scenes
as time was soon to prove, there was t
be most intimately connected this yer
man who, now bending forward attentive
~, now. listening respectfully, and eve
gazing directly and ardently, heard naugh
Of plots or plans, cared naught for tn
Paris which lay about, saw naught BIT
the beautiful face before him, felt naugf
but some deep, compelling thrill in ever
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