The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1909-08-07

The father. Elias, traded in curried
leather, q material highly valued by
the middling people because it would
turn an ordinary knife, and this was
no small virtue in a terkin In that
time when people SO liberal of cold
steel that even at dinner man would
leave his meat for a while to carve
his neighbor on a very moderate DIFF
ference of opinion.
Elias might have been wealthy had
his wife not presented. him with nine
children. Every time he had accu-
mulated a little gold one OF the chill
dren would become just old enough
to need start in life. The patient
parents gave it ungrudgingly, and at
last had the happiness of seeing four
provided for worthily. 800.
OF the five who were left two
could not work and two were. unwill-
Ing. There was Giles, a, dwarf, i'm
mensely ugly, and immensely strong,
from whom honest dogs and un-
prejudfced women ran headlong.
There was Catherine, poor girl, that
could move only on crutches. There
were Sybrandt and Cornelis, who
had made calculations and stuck, by
the cozy hearth waiting for q dead
mans shoes.
The remaining child was one set
apart. He was Gerard, and he was
designed for the church-without any
not rich enough to buy him a benef1ce,
and without any great fears, because
the church always could maintain her
children by hook or crook in those
days.
He was frivolous, for he had in.
dulged constantly in the trivialties OF
reading and penmanship and he could
not be lured away from them even
for meals. The day was not long
enough for him. He carried finder
box and birthstone matches constant.
ly and begged candle ends from every,
body, $50 that he could sit up at
heathenish hours-even as late as 8
o'clock Of a winter night, when the
very burgomaster was a-bed.
The monks, who had taught him,
encouraged him and were pround Of
their young lector, who was to be
hurried through the grades Of exorcist
and acolyte, that he might enter the
priesthood as soon as possible.
Thy discovered that he had a pretty
art in caligraphy and coloring and
gave him paints and vel1um When
Margaret Van Eyck, sister Of the
great brothers Van Eyck, came to
Tergou, she took Gerard to her heart
as a fellow artist. In those strange
days artists loved one another: -.
Philip the Good, who had generous
tastes, being an excellent hunter,
fighter, liar and collector of ,curiosi-
ties, was an excellent judge of art.
One day he offered a prize for the best
writing. 1t was won by Gerard.
The prize was Is golden angels. A
single golden angel in those days
would take a man half way through
Europe, if he helped it out with wits.
In addition, the Princess Marie,
Philips daughter, promised him a
beneflce. i.
From that hour Gerard was looked
upon as the stay Of the family. Moth.
ing was too good for him., Cornelis
and Sybrandt longed for the day when
he should get his benefice, that his
reverence's purse might be ready for
their assaults. The bishop questioned
him speedily and made him an exor.
cist, which invested him with the
power to cast out demons. :.
Unluckily for the happiness of him
self and his ambitious family, Gerard
had brought back with him something
besides Is angels from his visit tt
the court of Philip He had met &
girl, and he loved her. =.
She was tall and young and fair
When man looked at her proud
young head, he could not see that he1
gown was shabby. When he looked
at her violet eyes he could not SCI
the world, but only the sweet, brav.
innocence that shone there. Her hair
set in it's simple filagree, of silver
was like the Beauty sung III the Vul
gate. IAN Apple Of gold in q net O
silver. - .,.'r :.s.-. ~ &t@ "
Margaret Brandt was the daughte,
of a poor scholar and lived In q smal
house at Sevenbergen, not far frou
Tergou. Since old Peter Brandt hat
studied all his life to relieve huma,
Ills, and his., studies had given AIN
Skill In medicine and surgery far be
yong his time, he had won the nat,ira
reward. His neighbors denounced IN,
feared him as q magician. In case
of extremity they accepted his help
but. they reconciled themselves witt
heaven by paying him as little as pos
sible after they were cured !.
The first man to discover Gerard
secret was the burgomaster Of Ter
gou Ghysbrecht Van Swieten.; RI
was nightly perturbed, not for tn,
sake Of Gerard's family or future. bu
because OF q secret Of his own.
He had cheated Peter Brandt Ion,
ago., and most Of the land that Il
held; and by virtue Of which he was !,
rich malltwas not his, but belonged t
the unsuspecting old scholar. Q. TIL
old mans unworld ILLNESS and the Girl
ignorance Of the past had il assure,
him Of safety, but when he lsaxnsl