The Washington herald., 1914-06-28
Copyright. !sH, By Irving King. All night. re
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has been Czlled-the wider Judaism. hB nlght
from the draEinEFooms Of London TO the deserts Of
Arabia Petra and back are really wonderful.
But who but q Jew, gifted with the genius Of
Disraell. and inherting the blood which he did.
ned with those traditions which he had. and At the
same time being English gentleman Of several
descents-his father rEiTy cOunselor-coud have 80
connected up, as it were. two continents and two
races! The attitude Of the Oriental mind toward
THE Occidental mind is clearly betrayed in it.
EeIl as the imposibility Of any real assimilation.
careful reading of the story leaves one impressed
With the truth Of kipling's lines:
"oh, Eat is East and west il West,
And never the twain shall meet,
Till EARN and sky stand presently
At Gods great Judgment scat"
Most Of the characters in the story are drawn
from real life. The Duke and Duchess of Norfolk
sat for the Duke and Duchess Of Bellamont, and
sidonia was in real life. the Baron Nathan de
Rothschild
".Brother of the Queen of the
English"
In a defile in Arabia Petra. which led
toward the Peninsula Of Sinai, to which
place the young Englishman, Tancred,
Lord Montacute, was travelling, the
youths caravan was suddenly halted by
a swarm of armed Arabs.
He himself had with him his personal
attendant, Baroni. two English servants
and the Sheik Hassan, who was in
charge Of his convoy OF twenty-five men.
A horseman from the hostile force rode
forward alone and signaled a parley.
See what these men want" said Tan
cred to Baroni. Baroni rode out and
held a parley.
They want your Lordship," said Ba-
roni when he returned: they would take
you to their great Sheik and hold you
for ransom. They say you are the
brother of the Queen OF the English
Tell them. Baroni. that 1 am not the
brother Of the Queen of the English
that their aim is hopeless, and all they
shall ransom is my dead body"
Diplomacy was useless. The fight be-
gan-several fell on both sides, and at
last, his sword arm wounded. his horse
stabbed from beneath, and sinking to
the ground with him, Tancred was over
powered and bound.
Kill him not" cried the leader OF the
stranger Arabs Every drop Of his
blood is worth 1000 piasters."
Dismay at BeIIantont.
But let us go back a few months to
England-to a quieter and an unwarlike
scene
There was dismay in the great castle
of Bellamont. The son and heir-in fact,
the only child OF that great ducal house
had announced his intention of trav-
announcement TO his father at the close
of the festivities which celebrated his
coming of age.
This will be a terrible blow to your
mother" said the duke: Il say moth
ing of myself. But we will not be un-
reasonable. l suppose you would go to
Paris With Brace at the embassy there,
we could manage very well with Paris.
But then, l suppose, you would like
er would consent to that Then, at the
same time. they say one should see Rome
before he dies. l never did. l never
crossed the water but once-when 1 went
70 Ireland
with Brace, our cousin Howard.
medical man and other proper attend
ants, 1 think the danger would not be
extreme. But You know what my ar
Tangements have been?"
''Yes, father"
We'll, I will talk about it with your
mother. Yours is a precious life"
The Last Tancred.
When the worthy duke and duchess
found that Tancred did not long to visit
those dangerous cities Paris and Rome,
but really was bent upon going to Jeru-
salem and the Holy Land, there was a
row.
been a Montacute who had been a Cru
sader under the great Tancred, after
whom he had named his son. So the
name had come down. and now this mod
ern Tancred was bent upon making a
new crusade
1t was a great shock to a family whose
lives had been so we'll ordered for so
many generations that even the old
clocks in the halls and castles kept time
by them.
Tancred Montacute, the only son of the
Duke and Duchess of BeIlamont. came
of age so suddenly that it surprised his
worthy parents But he did it-as all
boys who live to be twenty-one will.
All According to Rule.
Now. the Duke and Duchess of Bella
mont were in the very highest ranks of
the British nobility. Therefore they were
simple people, never vent into society
and lived their quiet lives upon their
estates or a formal and humdrUm one in
the great town house in London-spend-
ing as little time as they could there.
manors many. The thing for people of
their high station TO do was to live
among the people"
The dukes business was to receive the
reports OF his steward and business
men," to see that all was we'll ordered
upon his feudal possessions: once a year
10 pay his respects to his sovereign and
dine and sleep at the castle with his
duchess-the said castle being Windsor
his respects being paid formally at Buck
ingham, and TO go through a harmless
and well-ordered life with his gentle
spouse
She contributed to charities. visited the
poor Of the rural districts over which her
husband had jurisdiction and dosed the
sick with her infallible cures. For long,
long years there had been a well-regu-
lated system in the family of -Montacute.
The heir 10 the titles received a modi-
cum Of education-was shown to Eton and
oxford - properly guarded - and then
snatched home to the paternal embrace
TO be placed under the care of private
tutors
To Asia for Light
His life had been mapped out for him.
He was to marry his cousin-a most
amiable young lady of rank-go into
Parliament, vote with the Tories and help
his father keep the country together"
Finally he was to succeed to his faith