The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1904-05-12

of us has not had Sucn SHRINE! lie
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 stand
ards, as all men do, yet barking ever
back to that secret sibyl, reckoning all
things from her, for her, by her.
There came at length one chastened
hour when they met in calmness, when
there was no 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 professed to love man,
not knowing what that man was: that
she had suffered, but that it was better
so, since It had brought understand
ing. Now, in this calmer time, she
begged of him knowledge of this child,
regretting the wandering life which
had beel its portion, saying that Tor
Mary Connynge she no longer felt hor-
ror 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 Catharine Knollys consent,
stimulating that the child should De
placed in a Paris convent for two
years, and that for two years John
Law should see neither his daughter
nor herself. Obedent as child him
self he had promised.
Now, go away" she then had said
to him. Go your own way. Drink,
dice. game. and waste the talents God
hath given you You have made ruin
enough for all of us | 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 manfully
than any of his life. Ills fortune he
had gathered together amounting tC
more than a million livres. He had
sent once more for his brother VIII,
and thus the two had lived for some
time in company in lower Europe, the
elder brother still curious as ever in
his abstruSe theories of banking and
finance-theories then new, now out
lived in 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 re-
Gently received a summons from Phil
ippe of Orleans 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 Hateful change.
With quick revival of all his high
land 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 fash
ion this lady of his dreams, even at
such time as the seal of silence was
lifted from his lips. 1t was no wonder
that his eye cleaned, that his voice
took on the old vibrant tone, that every
gesture, in thought or in spite of
tIlDuSHl, dSSuHlti tUt ltHutT uSItT-
ence of the lover
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-
cally 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 a 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 of
| Paris, in connection with her friend.
the countess of Warrington, sometime
connected with the embassy of that
| i<pid citii W nv do Itiitl W dNl DIS spy
for England in Paris, now so soon to
know tumultuous scenes.
But now the carriage had arrived at
the destination named by Lady Cathar-
inc. Law sprang out, hat in hand and
assisted Lady Catharne to the curb.
A passing flower girl, gaily offering
her wares paused as the carriage drew
up. Law turned quickly and caught
from her as many roses as his hand
could grasp. handing her in return half
as much coin as her smaller palm could
| hold. He turned to the Lady Cath
arine, and bowed with that grace
which was the talk of "A world of gal
lants. In his hand he extended a
| flower.
Madam, as before!" he said.
There was sob in his voice Their
eyes met fairly, unmasked as they had
not been for years. Tears came into
the mans eyes, the first that had ever
sat there; tears for the past, tears for
that sweetness which once might have
! been.
ITO BE CONTINUED