The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-08-03
"I<ercn of LOyybolc.n

"Kercn OF Lowbole."
BY Una l.. Silberrad George H Do
ran Company 25 net
Though no one called her by II,
kerens real name was keren- happuch:
she lived in an old house In an ancient
forest in England with her father, who
was a chemist. But because II was in
the seventeenth century. he was an al
chemist and because Keren had learned
to help him among his retorts and
crucibles. and, further. possessed Gu
rtous power of compelling with her big
eyes and OF driving away pain with
her delicate hands. she was suspected
OF being n witch.
Wherefore she ran away from the
house of a relative with whom her
father had left her for time, and, ac-
companied by Zachary Ward. vaga-
bond gentleman. and Tobiah the Dis
/ scnter, she wandered on the highways
and through the byways of rural Eng
land until she found her happiness.
Her father had visited Rcutzberg, a
town OF Flanders, after he had sent
visitation upon IL. for that the good
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death his wife and Kerens mother. an
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what he had sought TO do and Keren
was lc1t alone, 30 she married Zachary,
a blithe gentleman enough and vaga-
bond no longer Now whether she
loved this Zachary or not. there is no
telling. save that she married him. for
the story is silent upon this point.
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of the essence Of the story-and a
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| lation.
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most ivvably a woman. is quantity
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knowledge in his head as well as a
pipe to his lips and n song TO his throat.
But the best of them is the noncon-
/ formist Tobah. "A dissenter OF dis
| senters. a prophet who feels called
upon TO expose and denounce all frailty
and wickedness. fecund in apt quota
ton from the Scriptures. Il roundhead.
! a Puritan. yet man OF warm and
tender heart filled with the love OF
| humanity.
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for whom more than once. the book
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| though in semiarchaic style. which
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