The Cairo bulletin., 1904-01-14


Philippe gave promise that. should he
ever hold in his own hands the gov
ermment of France he would end Law 5
Punishment and give 10 him the OPP
portunity he sought OF proving those
theories of finance which constituted
The absorbing ambition of his life.
Meantime Law, ever restless. had
. passed from one capital of Europe to
another, dragging with him from hotel
10 hotel the young child whose life
I had been cast in such feverish and un-
natural surroundings. He continued
10 challenge every hazard fearless.
/ reckless. contemptuous and ~ithal
wretChed, as one must be who, alter
wears of effort. found that he co9ld
not haniSh from his mind The pictures
Of q dark-noored prison and Of a knife
stab in the dark, and OF raging, awful
waters. and OF a eirl beautiful, though
with sealed lips and heart OF ice.
From time to time rs was well known.
Law returned 10 England lie heard
af the Lady Catharine Knallys, as
might easily lie done in London heard
Of her as a young woman kind OF heart.
soft OF speech with tenderness for
avery little suffering Thing. q beautiful
woman whose admirers listed scores.
hat who never yet. even according 10
The eaecrest gossip Of the capital had
found q sGiior 10 whom she gave word
or jhougbf Of love.
So now az last the arrogant selfish
ness Of his heart began to yield. Ills
heart was bro en- before it might
soften bur soften at last il did And
o he built up in his soul the image
of grave. sweet saint kindly and
eentlc-yOlced. unaprroachahle. not To
be prutaned Tc lis image an, which
al MS has not had such a shrine, he
brought in secret the homage of his
life. his confessions, his despairs. his
hnpes his resolutions; guiding thereby
an his life, as well as poor mortal man
m9y DO failine ever OF his own stand
ards. as all men do, yet barking ever
back to that secret sibyl. reckoning al
thines from her. for her, By her
There came at length one chascned
hour whca they met in calmness, when
there was no longer talk of love be-
tween them when he stood before her
as though indeed al the altar of some
marble deity Always her answer had
heen TIM tho past had heeu 2 mistake,
that she had prolessed 10 love man.
not knowing what that man was: that
she had suffered. bur that il was better
so. since il had brought understand
ing Now, in this Calmer time. she
begged Of him knowledge Of this child,
regretting the wandering life which
had been It's portion saying that for
Mary CUnnynee she no longer felt hor-
ror and hatred Thus II was that in a
hasty moment Law had impulsiyely
tdeia-e over tddi unfortunate child
II was TO his own amazemeut that he
heard Lady Catharine knolys consent
stipulatinR that the child should he
placed in a Paris convent for two
years. and that for two years John
Law should see neither his daughter
nor herself Obedient as a child him
self he had promised
Nov, 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 MS. would only that
II may not run so far as to another
generation
So both had kept their promises.
and now The two yearS we're dcps
years spent 10y Law more manfully
than any Of his life, His fortune he
had gathered together amounting To .
mere than million liyres. He had .
sent once more for his brother Will. .
and thus the two had lived for some
line in company in lower Europe the .
elder brother still curious as ever in
lis abstTuse theories OF banking and +.
inance-theories then new, now out
iyed in great part though fiji 10 be
allied portion Of the great foundation
II the commercial system Of the world
I vas wiser and sOberer and riper
lohn Law, this man who had but re-
entity received a summons from Phil
ppe OF Orleans to be present in Paris
or that the king was dying. and that
I'll France. France the bankrupt and
distracted, was on the brink Of sudden
nd perhaps fatelul change.
With a quick revival Of all his high
and superstition Law hailed now as
lappy harbinger the fact that. upon
lis entry into Paris. The city once more
II big hopes. he had met in such fash
on this lady of his dreams. even at
ucn time as The seal of silence was
iiled from bis lips II was no wonder
hat his eye cleaned. that his voice
ook on the cid vibrant tone. that every
GESTURE, in thought or in spite 81
bought, assumed the tender defer
nee oi the lover
For the Lady Caibarne herself there
I'D been also many changes. Tho
cath Of her brother. the earl of Ban
ury, had wrought many shifts in the
circumstances Of house apparently
nrsred by unkind fate Loft practi-
ally alone and caring little for the life
{ london, even after there had worn
way the chill Of suspicion which fol-
WED upon The popular knowledge of