The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-01-14
The Mississippi Bubble
BY EMERSON HoUGH
A"ooF q The Sfery Of f6s Cosvsoy. "Ibs Girl rbs
Heftsey Reu5e.' &c.


Philippe gave promise that should he
ever hold in his own hands the gov
eminent Of France. he would end Law S
Punishment and give 10 him the OPP
porluuity he Sought, OF proving those
heorieS 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
TO hotel the young child whose life
had been east in such feverish and an
natural surroundings. He continued
20 challenge every hazard. fearless.
reckless, contempWous, and Nithal
wretched. as one must be who. after
wears Of effort. found that he coUld
not hanish from his mind The pictures
Of 2 dark-loored prison, and Of a knife
steb in the dark, and oI raging awful
+ waters. and of q girl beautiful, thoush
With sealed lips ANA heart of ice.
From time 20 time rs was well known,
Law returned to England He heard
Of the Lady Cajharlue Knollys. as
might easily he done in London; heard
of her as a young woman kind Of heart
satt OF speech, with tenderness fer
avery little suffering thing a beautiful
woman. whose admirers listed scores;
hpl vino never yet even according to
The eaeerest gossip 81 the capital had
found sailor to whom she gave word
or thought Of love.
So now at last the arrogant selfish
ness of his heart began to yield. His
heart was br0lcn before It might
soften. bur soften 40 last it did And
% he built mp in his soul the image
lf grave, sweet saint, Kindly and
genuc-yoiced unlprroachable not TO
be pruianed Tic lis IMAGE -ah. which
Of MS has not had such a shrinci he
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
msy 90 isiljna ever o. his own stand
ards. as all men do, vet 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 al the altar ot some
marble deity, Always her answer had
been that the past had heeu a mistake;
that she had protested to love a man,
not knowing what that man was that
she had suffered. but that il was better
SO. since it had brought understand
ing Now, in this calmer time. she
begged of him knowledge Of this child.
reCrettinc the wandering life which
had been It's portion, saying that fol
Mary Connynge she no longer felt hor-
ror and hatred. Thus it was that in a
hasty moment Law had mpulSively
begged her 80 assume some sort Of
id,eia-e over that unfortunate child
II was TO his own ama7ement that no
heard Lady Catharine Knollys consent /
sipulaiine that the child should be
placed In a Paris convent for two
years. and that for two years John
Law should see neither his daughter
nor herself Ohedient 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 /
It may not run so far as to another
So both had kept their promises.
and now the two years were dove
ears spent by Law more manfmly
han any OF his life His fortune he
had gathered together. amounting to
more than a million livres He had
ient once more for his brother viii.
md thus tho TWO had lived for some
lme in company in lower Europe. the
'lder brother still curious as ever in
us abs'ruse theories OF banking and
inance--theorics then new, now ont
ived in great part. though 81 To he
allied a portion Of the great foundation
# the commercial system of the world
I was wiser and sObeter and riper
ohn Law this man who had but re-
emily received a summons from Phil
ppe Of Orleans to be present in Paris
or that the king was dying. and that
ii France France the bankrupt and
distracted, was on the brink Of sudden
md perhaps tatefu change
With a quick revival OF all his high
and superstition. Law hailed now as
Iappy harbinger the fact that. upon
us entry into Paris, the city once more
# bis hopes he had met in such fash
On his lady of his dreams even At
Heh time as tho seal of silence was I
fitted from bis lips II was no wonder
hat his eye cleaned that his voice
ook IN The old vibrant tone. that every
eslure, in thought or in spitc ri d
houghi, assumed the tender defer. I
nee ri the lover
For the Lady Catbarine herself there
M oecn also many changes. Tho I
cath Of her brother, the earl of Ban
uTy had wrought many shifts in the
circumstances Of a house apparently
ursled by unkind fate. Len practj-
ally alone and caring little for the life c
London. even after there had worn
way the chill Of suspicion which fol
wed upon the popular knowledge of
or founprf3.n NTH az, o-..