Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-07-30

angemen against their re!lslou;
Marchand, the ieauer' Is ,, ,u' .."
throush 'he an W 4sI "T hood cnn'
W. r5:1 fa,,,,,,or, mo co,.od and
a So. -;ian.i,. to Norito, oftor ono
80 ~, ,aisr.- Los ,,ada !, ornca1
VI .nei .r 80 Tor siY un"ks IncoIby is
- tD -. E1oJa - bor own home
HE work has been taken over by an
otber Progress in the towns has
slammed and trouble is brewing once
nrain. specialist from the East is
oonirc to trv to restore Ingolby's
eyesig6t
,>D ,,EpE Ut Co<TIST-ES
r1I iCuEn ont oyer the covcrlct.
- ,..tiat, Lo b,d beon
te'I .o' ,l:t ,, aio,,.1,, ,,Iyirg tho
iil Iealnlns ~ .TiaJ H",S, t.I onIv know what
~. ra,,,a t,IJ mo and he was a
i;,o,,a,,, 1ia,.',
o =, ebo
don 'llnN he iN ,,,os
answered. Iuie'I! ,.as mar.
n gypsy ne 'nIa 20" '"aI ,,,ns
rled 10 MIN Ah"' ""S ILL.,, l., the
gypsy was I,l"rr'T" ~ obiId ~
II
three, anu never '"" I'm - >,
mere the o'her u"S on VI.
You were married 10 Nun as ilurM .,,, "s
/ am he interJected scornfullE' l"a'
was farce. 1t was only promise "
pay on the part of your father' 1he,e
was nothing in that. Jethro rave coulu
not claim on that. ~
"He has tried to do So" she
answered. ''and if were still gypsy
he would have the right to do so from
his standpoint."
"That sounds silly to me-" Ingolby
remarked. his fingers moving now more
ouickly with the needles.
"No. il isn't silly" she said, her
voice almost as softly monotonous as his
had been when he told her of his life
a little while before. 1t was as though
sho yr,s lnok;ny into her own mind and
heart and speaking to herself. "It'isn't
silly ), she repeated II don't think
yor understand Inst because a race
i;ke tbe gvnsies have no country and no
home 90 thev must have things that
h;rd tben, which other people don't need
:, tho s,mo way Reing the yagrants
of The oortb so thev must have things
tbot bo1d tben fighter than any written
lov,s noodo bv king or Parliament. Tn
lcss thn gvnsics kent their laws sacred
tbev couIdn't hold together at all.
1hev,ro iron and steol the gypsy laws.
They omit he stretched, and they cant
he twisted They can only be broken,
and tbop there is no argument about it.
When tbev are broken. there's the pen
oltv and II has to he met"
IrooIhv stonnod knitting for n mo-
rant ..you don't moan that a peualty
corId touch vous" he asked incredu-
lorsIv
s.Eot for break;ng Inv" she an
.oroJ en- NOT n gvnsv anv moro. 7
ooro NV, word about that and so did
nv father. and III keen it,"
.rpia.so toll mo about il " he urged
..TelI mo go that can understand
orarrth;ng -
Thoro ,1,os 1org nouso in which In
,olhv insnected carefully with his fin
sars the work which he was doing. but
ct last Fleda's voice came 70 him. as it
soorood ont Of greot distance while
sLo hoaor r. toll of ber FIRST memories
of her life by the Danube and the Black
sea and drew for him n picture.
&c sbo could recall If of her marriage
With Jetbro. and of the years that fol-
lowed Now and again as she told of
vnr,o sordid things of the challenge Of
tba law in different countries. of the
coarse vagabondope Of the gvnsy peoplc
On this nIace or in that. and some in
d;.n;ty nus unon her father or some
humiI;ating incident, her voice became
low and nained. It seemed as if she
,noont that he should see all she had been
a., tbot mast which still must be mart of
tho w nrosort and have its place in the
t,t,rn bnwovor far away all TINT he
,onaad r. II would bs. She anpeared to
sonsoh bor mind to find that which
,,.o,,,d rreirdico him against her. While
ar.;nn ,,,itb slow scorn of the life
So aho had lived as a pvnsv vet she
Mn,s1 =. 'r 80 him understand. too. that.
.rieu " aars wban She belonged to II,
IN Ihc o5 49, notural 70 her and that its
a.! Se. ;+s uogabondagp did NOT nro.
soruiunes', anoo in her mind when she
uu'e ef ~ IrrwittirpIv she over
was pait ~ W n;ctrre and he knew she
so,oreu ,es INT