Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1904-05-12

self says, all France in the hollow Of
his hand, he could be nothing to me-
Now will make ain end to this.
will leave Paris.
Madam, you might not be allowed
to go
What! not allowed to go. And
what would hinder a Knollys Of Ban
bury from going when the hour shall
arriye?D
1.-THE regent.
And why the regent"
Because Of my brother.
Your brother!"
| ''Assuredly MY brother is to-day
king of Paris. If he liked he could
keep you prisoner in Paris. My brother
/ does as he chooses. He could abolish
parliament tomorrow if he chose.
| My brother can do all things except
/ to win from you, Lady Catharine, one
word of kindness, of respect. Now,
| then, he has come to the end He told
| me to come to you and bear his word.
| He told me to say to you that this is
the last time he will importune, the
! last time that he will implore. Oh,
Lady Catharine! Once before car
ried to you message from John Law
from John Law, not in distress then
more than he is now, even in this hour
of his success.
| Lady Catharine paled as she sank
| back into her seat. Her white hand
l AZ To- Il ~. Tor
| eyes grew dark in their emotion
| Eyes, madam went on Will Law,
tears shining in his own eyes, twas
|, an unfaithful messenger. who, by
an error, wrought ruin for my brother
and for yourself, even as did for my
self. Madam, hear me! would be a
better messenger to-day
| The old wrinkle of perplexity gath
cred between the brows of the woman
before him. Her face was clouded,
the changeful eyes now deep covered
| by their lids.
| Lacking the precise word for that
crucial moment, Will Law broke fur
| Their 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 their face,
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
| little Company of the Indies; and to
| this he adds the charter of the Senegal
| Company. Not content, he adds the
and the South Seas. He has been
| given the privilege of the royal farm
| ing of tobacco, for which he pays the
| king the little trifie of two hundred
million livres, and assures to the king
| certain interest moneys, which, I need
/ not say, the king will actually obtain.
In addition to these things. he has
lately been given the mint of France.
/ The whole coinage of the realm has
| been made over to this Company of
] the Indies My brother pays the king
/ fifty million ivres 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 adventurer, a gambler, if you
i will, and if you can; but at least adj
nit that he has given life and hope to
the poor of France, that he has given
back to the king a people which was
despoiled and ruined by the former
king. He has trebled 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
Godi It surely seems that he has at
least been constant to himselfi''
"Oh, l hear talk of it all | hear
that a share in the new company prom
ises dividends of two hundred livres.
I hear talk of shares and .sub-shares,
called mothers, and daughters and
granddaughter, and | know not what
1t seems as though half the coin were
divided into confines, and as though
each centirne had been planted by
your brother and had grown to be
worth thousand pounds. ] 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, unhap-
piness in every gesture.
| ii er,.i sxrce n.y.
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 2
This said Will Law, sadly, SIS this
all the message I may take?''
| 1T is all"
Though it is the last?"
at is the last"