The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-11-15
I shall! These are his ambitions. First

shall! These are his ambitions. First
OF all. Lady Catharine. you. Second,
America. Third. q people for America
g people who may hopel Oh. i admit all
twas but to forget you. He drank but
twas to forget you. Foolish he was. as
are all men. Now he succeeds, and finds
ne can not forget you. have told you
his ambitions, madam, and though others
may never know nor acknowledge them,
you, at least. must do so. And beg you
to remember, madam. that OF all his am
billions. twas you, Lady Catharine. ~your
favor, your kindness, your mercy. that
made his first and chief DESIRE"
AS for that" said the woman, some
what scornfully. III you please. had
rather received my protestations direct;
and your brother knows I forbid him
raised some considerable noise by
way Of enterprise. That I might
know. even did not see this horde
OF dukes and duchesses and princes
OF the blood, clamoring for the
recognition of even his remotest
friends. know. too, that he is accepted
as hero by the people," e..
And well he may be. Coachmen and
Wallets have liveries of their own these
days. Servants now eat from plate, and
clerks have their own coaches Paris is
packed with people, and. look you, they
are people no longer clamoring for bread.
Who has done this? Why my brother,
John Law of Lauriston. Lady Catharine,
who loves you. and loves you dearly"
between the brows of the woman before
him. Her face was clouded, the change
full eyes now deep covered by their lids.
Lacking the precise word for that
crucial moment. Will Law broke further
on into material details. "To be explicit,
as have said,!" resumed he, "everything
seems to center about my brother. the
'director-general Of finance. He took the
old notes of the government, worth not
half face value, and in a week made
them treble their face value. The king
owes him over one hundred million livres
to-day. My brother has taken over the
farming Of the royal taxes. And now he
forms a little company of the Indies; and
to this he adds the charter of the Senegal
company. Not content, he adds the entire
trade Of the Indies, Of China and the
south seas. He has been given the pr1vi-
lege. Of the royal farming of tobacco, for
which he pays the king the little trifle of
two hundred million livres, and assures
to the king certain interest moneys,
which, need not say, the king will actu-
ally obtain. In addition to these things,
he has lately been given the mint of
France. The whole coinage of the realm
the Indies. My brother pays the king
fifty million livres for this privilege, and
this he will do within fifteen months.
All France is indeed in the hands of my
brother. Now, call John Law an ad-
venturer, a gambler, If you will, and if
you can; but at least admit that he has
given life and hope to the poor of France,
that he has given back to the king peo-
pie which was despoiled and ruined by
The former king has frehla6 the
trade Of France, he has saved her honor,
and opened to her the avenues of new
world. Are these things nothing? They
have all been done by my brother, this
man whom you believe incapable Of faith
and constancy. Good God! 1t surely
seems that he has at least been constant
to himself"
"Oh. I hear talk Of It all. hear that
a share in the new company promises
dividends Of two hundred livres. I
hear talk of shares and Sub
shares called mothers and daughters
and granddaughter and I know not
what. It seems as though half the coin
were divided into confines, and as though
each centime had been planted by your
brother and had grown. to be worth a
thousand pounds. I admit somewhat Of
knowledge Of these miracles"
TRUE, Lady Catharine. Can there not
be one miracle more?"
Lady Catharine Knollys bent her face
forward upon her hands, unhappiness in
every gesture.
Sir" said she, s'it grieves my heart to
say it; yet this answer you must take to
your brother, John Law. That miracle
hath not yet been wrought which can
give us back the past again."
'This," said Will Law, sadly, lis this
all the message may take?"
1T is ALL
.Thoueh il ia the last?'
1T is the last?"+
Iro ha continued Monday