Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1904-05-18
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! INC aiI VI prince, he gained greater
I reputation than any prince of Europe
| Upon him were spent the blandsh-
ments of the fairest women OF his time.
Yet not this, not all this, served to
steady his energies, now unbalanced
speeding without guidance. The gold
heaped high on the tables, was not
enough to stupefy his mind, not enough
though he doubled and trebled it.
| though he cast great golden markers
, To spare him trouble in the counting
| or his winnings. Still student. still
mathematician, he sought at Amster-
dam, at Paris, at Vienna, all new theo-
ries which offered in the science of
banking and finance. even as at the
same time he delved still further into
the mysteries of occurrences and
chance.
In this latter such was his success
that losers made complaint, unjust but
effectual, To the king SO that Law was
| Obliged to leave Paris Cor n time. He
had dwelt long enough in Paris, this
| ble-natured man, this student and
creator, this gambler and gallant. to
win the friendship of Philippe of Or
leans, later to be regent of France:
and gay enough had been the life they
/ TWO had led-so gay. SO intimate, that
Philippe gave promise that, should he
| ever hold in his own hands the gov
eminent of France, he would end Laws
Punishment and give to him the op-
| portunity he sought, of proving those
theories of finance which constituted
the absorbing ambition of his life.
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 I'M
natural surroundings. He continued
TO challenge every hazard. fearless.
reckless, contemptuous, and withal
wretched, as one must be who. after
years OF effort, found that he could
not Danish from his mind the pictures
of a darknoored prison, and of knife
stab in the dark, and of raging awful
waters. and of a girl beautiful. though
with sealed lips and heart of ice
From time to time, as was well known.
Law returned 10 England. He heard
of the Lady Catharine Knollys. as
might easily be done in London: heard
= L.
soft of speech, with tenderness for
every little suffering thing; a beautiful
woman, whose admirers listed scores:
put who never yet, even according to
the eaSerest gossip of the capital, had
found sutton 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 broken before it might
soften, but soften at last it did. And
so he built up in his soul the image
or grave, sweet saint, kindly and |
Sentle-voiced, unapproachable, not TO
be profaned To this image-ah. which |
OF us has not had such a shrine,-he
brought in secret the homage of his |
life, his confessions, his despairs. his
hopes, his resolutions; guiding thereby
all his life, as well 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 chastcned
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 a mistake:
that she had protested TO love q 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 calmcr time. she
begged of him knowledge of this child
rcSrettinS the wandering life which
had been its portion. saying that for
Mary CoDnynSe she no longer felt hor-
rOr and hatred. Thus ID was that in a
nasty moment Law had impusively
begged her to assume some sort of
tutelaSe over that unfortunate child. |
1t was to his own amazement that he
heard Lady Catharine Knollys consent.
STIMULATING that the child should be
placed in Paris convent for two
years, and that for two years John
Law should see neither his daugbter
nor herself Cbedieut as a child him
self he had promised
Now, so 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 I would only that
1t 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 manfulIy
than any of his life. His fortune he
had gathered together. amounting TO
more than million liyres. lie had
sent once more for his brother VIII.
and thus the two had lived for some
ime ir company in lower Europe. the
elder brother still curious as ever in
ms ab3trusc theories of banking and
hnance theories then new. now out
lived in great part. though fit to he
cailed a portion Of the great foundation
OF inc commercial system of the world.
| was a wiser and soberer and riper