Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1902-11-01

worthy of death who issued notes without
having the specie wherewith to pay them
He insisted that the payment should mea
specie in the value Of the day on which tn
note was issued. This item the regent like
| little, as being too irksome for his tempe,
Was it not Of record how Louis, the Gran
MonarQue, had twice made certain million
! for himself by the simple process of chang
ing, amorous Philippe, easy-going, shallow
thinking, truly vert thou better fitted for
| throne than for bankers chair!
The royal bank, which the regent himsel
hastened to foster when he saw the profit
Of the first private bank of circulation an
discount France had ever known, issue
notes against which Law entered imme
diately his firm protest He saw that thei
tenor spelled ruin for the whole system @
. finance which, at such labor, he had erect
ed. These notes promised TO pay, for In
stance, fifty Hvres ''in silver COIN" not 81
coin of the weight and standard of thi
day., as had the honester notes of Law
bank. That Is to say, the notes mean
nothing sure and nothing definite. The
might be money for time, but not forever
and this the director general was to
shrewd man not to know.
But under this issue you shall have a.
france, said the regent to him one day, a
| they renewed their discussion yet agaii
| upon this scheme. You shall have tn
farming of the taxes. / will give you al
| the foreign trade as monopoly, If you like
effect, as 1 have said, all France. But
monsieur my director general, 1 must hav
money. 1t Is for that purpose that / ap
point you director general-because I fin,
you the most remarkable man In all tn
world"
"Your grace" said Law, print your note
thus, and print them to such extent as yo,
wish, and France Is again worse thai
bankrupt! Then, indeed, you have wors,
than repudiated the debts of France"
h h. ~1At H.,
You have migraine. perhaps7 What folls
for you to speak thus. France hath swift
ly grown SO strong that she can never agaii
be ruined. What ails my magician, m.
Prince of Golconda. this morning? Franc
bankrupt! Even were 1t so, does that re
lieve me of this begging of De Prize, o.
Parabere, and all the others? My God
Monsieur las, they are like leeches! They
think me made Of money"
And your grace thinks France made O
money"
Nay; I only think my director genera
Is made Of money, or can make 1t as b
likes"
And this was ever the end OF Laws re.
proaehes and his expostulations. This, then
was to be the end of his glorious enter
prises, thought he, as he sat one morning
staring out of the window when left alone
This sordid love for money for its own sake
this was to be the limit of an ambition.
which dealt in theories, in men, In nations
and not in lfvres and louis dor. Law
smiled bitterly. For an instant he was not
the confident man Of action and Of affairs.
not the man claiming with assurance the
perpetual protection of. good fortune. He
sat there. alone, feeling nothing but the
great human craving for sympathy and
trust. A line of carriages swept back across
the street at his window, and streams OF
mobiles besought entrance at his door. And
the man who had called out all these, tho
man for whose friendship all Europe clam.
ored-that man sat with aching heart. long
ing. craving, begging now of fortune onl;
the one fhing-a friend! -
At last no arose. his face showing leas1
and hagsard. He passed into another room
WILL said he, Il am at place wher.
I am dizzy and need .. hand. You knos
what hand 1t means for me. Can you TO
Will you take her. ~ you did once befor
for me, Q message? i cannot 90. I can
not venture Into her DreaenQe. NllI you g
Tell her II L. the iest tizme1 TeH her u a
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ITO b. continued Monday)