Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1904-02-26
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passed from one capital Of Europe to
another, dragging with him from hotel
to hotel the young child whose life
had been cast in such feverish and UNI
natural surroundings. He continued
to challenge. every hazard, fearless,
reckless, contemptuous, and withal
wretched, AZ one must be who, after
!, years Of effort. found that he could
not Danish from his mind the pictures
. Of q dark-floored prison. and of . knife
stab in the dark, and Of raging, awful
/; waters. and Of q girl beautiful, though
! with sealed lips and heart Of Ice.
i From time to time, as was well known,
Law returned to England. He heard
I; Of the Lady Catharine Knollys, as
might easily be done IN London; heard
OF her a. . young woman kind Of heart,
soft Of speech, with tenderness for
every little suffering thing: q beautiful
woman, whose admirers listed scores:
, but who never yet, even according to
tho eagerest gossip Of the capital. had
found . sutton to whom she gave word
or thought Of love.
30 now ct last the arrogant SELFISH
ness Of his heart began to yield. His
heart was broken before it might
soften. but soften ut last it did. And
90 he built up, In his soul the image
OF q grave. sweet saint. kindly and
gentle-voiced. unapproachable, not to
be profaned. To this image-ah, which
OF US has not had such q shrine!-he
brought In secret the homage of his
life, his confessions, his despairs, his
hopes, his resolutions; guiding thereby
ali his he, as well as poor mortal man
may do. failing ever OF his own stand
ards, % all men do, yet barking ever
back to that secret sibyl, reckoning all
things from her. for her, by her.
There came ut length one chastened
hour when they met In calmness, when
there was 40 longer talk Of love be-
tween them, when he stood before her
as though indeed at the altar of some
marble deity. Always her answer had
been that the past had been mistake;
that she had protested to love q. man,
not knowing what that man was: that
she had suffered, but that 1t was better
SO. since it had brought understands
ing. 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 hor-
ror and hatred. Thus 1t was that In a
hasty moment Law had impulsively
begged her to assume some sort. or
tutelages over that unfortunate child.
1t was to his own amazement that he
heard Lady 0atharine Knollys consent.
stipulating that the child should be-
placed In Paris convent for two
years. and that for two years John
Law should SEQ neither his daughter
nor herself. Obedient a. Z child him.
self he had promised.
Now. 60 away" she then had said
to him, go your own way. Drink.
dice, game, and waste the talents God
hath given you. Yon have made ruin
enough for all Of u.s., would only that
It may not run 30 far as to another
generation
Y So both had kept their promises;
and aow the two years were done.
years spent by Law more manful,y
than any Of his life. His fortune he
had gathered together, amounting to
more than = million livyes, He had
sent once more for his brother VIII,
sA4A thus the two had lived for some
pme IN company in lower Europe, the
alder brother still curious as ever In
Ais abstruse theories Of banking and
Mnance-theories then new, now: out
lived, IN great part, though At to be
called portion OF the great foundation
0ftthe commercial system of the world.
= Was . wiser and soberer and riper
John Law, this man who had but re-
Gently received . summons from Phil
ippe Of Orleans to be present in Paris,
for that the king was dying, and that
I'll France. France the bankrupt and
distracted, was on the brink OF sudden
and perhaps fatetul change.
With quick revival Of all his hikh-
land superstition. Law hailed now O.
happy harbinger the fact that. upon
Aia entry Into Paris. the city once more
Of his hopes. he had met In such fash
Ion. this lady Of HIS dreams, even al
such time as the seal Of silence was
lifted from his lips. It was no wonder
that his eye Steamed, that his voice
took on the old vibrant tone, that every
gesture. in thought or IN spite Of
thought, assumed the tender defer
ence Of the lover. - sS..
For the Lady Catharine herself there
had been also many changes. The
death Of her brother, the earl Of Ban
bury, had wrought many shifts In the
circumstances Of a house apparently
pursued by unkind, fate. Left practi-
sally alone and caring little for the life
Of London. even after there had worn
away the chill Of suspicion which fol-
lowed upon the popular knowledge Of
her connection with the escape Of Law
from London, Lady Catharine Knollys
turned to I life and world suddenly
grown vague and empty. Travel upon
the continent with. friends, occasional
visits to the old family house In En-
gland. long journeys In this or the
other city-such had been her life,
quiet. sweet. reproachless and unre-
preaching. For the. present she had
taken an hotel in the older part 81
Paris. in connection with her friend,