The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1910-12-20

these STAY now my son. Fippnlytus Let
him not outlive this day
The frightened courtters begged the
King TO recall his prayer OF vengeance.
but he sternly replied that i could not
be. And II his prayer for vengeance
was not answered he himself would
cast out his son TO be a wanierer and
an exile He should be held hy two
great dooms-that answer 70 his pray
er or TO be an ou<cast and drain the
cup OF poverty and misery IN strange
ard ba-haric lands. As tho king craS-
ed speaking thar. came = footstep on
Re marble floor which y. knew well
and TO hear which approaching had
often sent a glad thrill to rs heart
the step OF Hippolytus. "Farhcr.'
cried the youth. I heard 9 sound OF
mourning and Voc. and FASTENED 20 see
II IL concerned thee-whe. what IS
this? The Queen dead thcrc-nay. il
cannot be. II Is scarcely an hour since
] saw her Standing here alive. WHY
lid she die" Not a voice answered
him; all cazed upon him wth troubled
looks, ard his fathers stern and vet
grief-stricten face awed him. "Fa-
Their" he cried, speak u me. tell me
what has happened and why YOU and
I'll about me gaze upon me With such
looks"
Theseus regarded his son ~intently
ana then said IS If 10 himself "Ah.
would the gods have given us here
below some sure test for Sitting the
soul that we might convict the liar by
his own true tone and not live duped
forever "Whvo" said H'ppolvtps.
has some friend proved <alee2 or
has scandal been whispered in thine
ears? Is it I who stands attaired here.
though utterly innocent? am dazed
II cannot compreheni any Of this.
hut see that il somehow concerns nc"
80 heart of man" replied the king.
60 what haiphtS nf ipEaSnrSS and
hperfdy VIII il aspire And if with each
new age come a greater store OF blood
and lies. then must the gods devise
ONE region far from Us to hold there
in the worlds sin and pcrfdv. Be
hold. all We who arc within tic sound
OF my voice, here stands my son. Look
upOn him. He hath deGicd mv wife
End now stands here convicted by the
deaC."
Hinpolvtus fell hack with = cry OF
anguish and covered his face with
his robe. He Jaw IN a fash how mat
: ters stood-how the Queen. who. he
wrongly believed. had sent her hand
maid to him-had, in revenge for his
scorn. taken her life AID let this w
ing record. There he stood while his
vituperation upon him. Get thee
from this land" 1T 1nnoh crief
Theseus, TO thine exile with all speed
! Never more shalt thou hehnld god
{ built Athens. Core not again 10 the
furthest shore of my realm. ny hand
2 has weight vile things like thee to
2 siay-but go and misery and perpetual
Z exile be thy portion unless the gift
$ of PNseidon shall clav thee first" The
I Mortified youth collected himself a lit
tie and said: "Father, hin anger IS
E terrible. Put if all the hidden things
: Of this affair we're laid open to thee
your speech would not be so venge-
fuI. cannot speak before the crowd.
Nevertheless. since this blow has fallen
upon ne. / must not be dumb. swear
5 by this sunlight and this earth thai
2 there is not a man in all thy realm
l more Innocent than !. You ali know
! how I have held myself since boy
hood-how chaste. If my life Of in
T rocence move thee not, SO be it. But
! tell me If that poor woman lying
was, in her life. so fair rs to tempt
ne from all that I have been before
| So H~ippoiytrS poured ont his plead
inss and recalled the iustness and the
r purity OF his life; swore by ali the
e gods his innocence. and called down
!. VENGEANCE on himself here ana here
!. after if he had ever even in thought or
!. deed beer untrue TO Theseus. Again
: and again the truth came to his lips
!. and vet ne would not gay 1t. And II
1 he did. what witnesses had he? The
]. old nurse would hardly confess her
: mart in the matter. And Who would
I halieve his story? All he could say
: only made his father more determined
, to have vengeance on him, and only
t made him believe more firmly thetab-
let taken from his dead wife's hand
HippoIytus was about to throw every
2 thing to the winds and tell his fatheT
/ the truth when he remembered his
: oath-that oath OF secrecy which the
willy nurse had eytorted from him he
/ fore she told him Of the Queens love.
!. If ne spoke he would not only break
1 his oath. but. he knew fall we'll, would
= break it in vain. There was no way
5 for him to turn. The scorned Aphro-
' dite had him in a trap.
He began again to recall TO thu
I Kline how pure his life had been. when
! Theseus cried out: he coaxes me
with his SANITY tongue Up. get thee
gone from this land, Become Be
! gone.' An. cried fflppoiyina'
! @wither shall turn me, banished on
q charge OF his kind-who viii re-