The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1904-06-10

I From time 70 time. as vas wen Knca =.
y Law returned 10 Engiand- he heard
Of the Lady Catharine KnOllys. as
y mfght easily be done in London. heard
/ of her as a young woman kind Of heart.
soft OF speech. with tenderness for
every little suffering thing; a beautiful
woman. whose admirers listed scores;
but who never yet, even according TO
the eagerest gossip of the capital. had
found a sutton TO whom she gave word
NJ thought CT love.
So now at last The arrogant selfish
ness of his heart began to yield. His
heart was bro. en- before it might
soften, b.: s0sren at lasl ii did. And
so he bull. u in his soul the image
of grave. sweet saint. kindly and
gentle-vOicsd. un2pproachable. not to
be profane1. 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 Go. 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 ct lensth 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 Lad
been that the past had been mistake;
that she had protested to love a 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 caimer time, she |
begged of him knowledge of this child, |
regretting the wandering life which |
had been its portion, saying that fol
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
It was to his own amazement that he
heard Lady Catharine Knollys consent
STIMULATING 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. Obedient as 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 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
iears spent by Law more manfully ,
han any OF his life. His fortune he
lad gathered together, amounting to /
more than million livres. He had G
ent once more for his brother Will r
md thus the two had lived for some +
1me in company in lower Europe the |
lder brother still curious as ever in r
lis abstruse theories of banking and r
then new, now out q
wed in great part, though fit to be n
allied portion of the great foundation a
f the commercial system of the world. n
was a wiser and soberer and ripper n
ohm Law, this man who had but re- d
emily received summons from Phil
0pe of Orleans to be present in Paris,
or that the king was dying, and that Fl
IL France, France the bankrupt and
was on the brink of sudden c.
nd perhaps fateful change. Y
With quick revival of all his high a
md superstition, Law hailed now as
Apply harbinger the fact that, upon p
Is entry into Paris, the city once more II
his hopes. be had met in such fash
N this lady of his dreams, even a,
lch time as the seal of silence was &
fled from his lips. 1t was no wonder d
lat his eye cleaned, that his voice u
ok on the old vibrant tone, that every -
,sture, in thought or in spite of
fought, assumed the tender defer II
Ice of the lover. II
For the Lady Catharine herself there +
I'd been also many changes. The
ath of her brother, the earl of Ban Id
Try, had wrought many shifts in the
rcumstances of house apparently n'
rsued by unkind fate Left practi- :"
lily alone and caring little for the life -,
London, even after there had worn -
ray the chill of suspicion which fol-
we'd upon the popular knowledge of ~
r connection with the escape of Law =,
I'M London. Lady Catharine Knollys
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