Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-12

reinforcing them, filling gaps and put
ting all together. The military trib-
une was ST. Martins father, and grand
father Of Concessa.
obviously. they made a long. happy
station down there on the Danube, near
the Hercules baths, where Trajan soak
ed his rheumatism two centuries pre-
viously-there is a fact to give ideas Of
their settled culture before Franks.
Goths. Huns and other northern horde;
had overrun the empire. Regular canal
boat freight lines went up and down
the Danube: tourists are still shown
parts Of the old towpath hewn in rock
and hundreds of miles apart
Martin. young son, quit his father s
palace down there at the age of fifteen.
to go off and be Il Roman army officer.
His elder sister. in the natural order
OF things, would have been married
so he would have known his little niece
already. Concess2. who continued
growing UP down there in bright and
cultivated society SO beautifully at
tributed to the sisters of Parthenius
by Kipling in his PUCK of Pooil's Hill,
meeting their fate at Il summer water
ing place exactly like. the Hercules
baths. and ready in their minds to shift
residence to any corner OF the empire.
SO ConccsSa finally married Calpurnius.
young military maeistra te-whose post
was exactly the luxurious Roman city,
unique extraordinary the single street
thirty miles long, which kipliDg makes
his hero defend in that epic Holding
of the WALL
1t was the wall OF SeveruS away
across Europe, in Britain. To the south
was all England ana Roman civiliza-
ton. To the north We're the Picts and
Scots. not uncivilized in their way. but
certainly raiders. Along the inside OF
the wall ran that long. long street,
filled with theaters. restaurants, cafes,
rich shops baths. manicures. hotels.
apartment houses, villas. arches. prom
enades. games. and on the outside was
the heather and the danger.
kipling'S story might be used as a
perfect picture Of the situation of CAL
purnius and Concessa, when undermin-
ed passages or breaches in the wall
permitted raids by the Picts and Scots.
the majesty Of Rome. They were at
their post in that luxurious, yet dan
gerous. street of the wall They had
fifteen-year-old son, bright boy
named Succat. All three were used to
the life. Perhaps they had no fore
holdings. Then, suddenly, in raid Of
the little men" from out their heather.
Succat was kidnapped. conveyed to the
opposite coast Of Ireland and sold into
slavery.
The gentle-bred Christian youth be-
came the property of Milche, wealthy
cattle owner. Succat was his name
but all called him Patricius, the young
patrician, whence Patrick. Though he
led q slaves life, tho rich Irish of those
days had d high civiliza ton of their
owr. They dressed ma efficiently. lived
high. PLAYED chess by the fires in their
great halls. Toasted. sang, and their
ladies had sun parlorS.
Patrick came to know these hearty peo-
pie we'll in the six years of his slavery.
Even when escaping he thought of them
tenderly. SO that their cry: we pray
thee. holy youth to come and henceforth
walk among u.s. which in exalted mo-
ments he heard ringing in his ears. seem
ed always to come from the woods near
killaia bay. where he lay hidden while
waiting to embark for Britain.
He got home safely. The overjoyed