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V 1 -- rit firs V V WA 1 CHAPTER XIII Continued That is so but I think her lie was worth a few words And Thomas Jefferson says she was ten thousand times welcome to the protection his name gave her I thank my God I have never had such temptation Over righteous we must not be Lysbot I am astonished also I thought Arenta would cry out and that only What a man or a woman will do and suffer and how they will do and suffer no one knows till comes some great occasion All the human heart wants is the chance As men and women have in Paris to live I wonder me that they can wish to liVe at all Welcome to them must be death So wrong are you Lysbet Trouble and hardship make us love life A zest they give to it It was not from the Jews in exile and captivity but from the Jews of Solomons glory came the only dissatisfied hopeless words in the Bible To morrow Joris I will go and see Arenta She Is fair and she knows it witty and she knows it of good courage and she knows It the fashion and she knows it To Aurelia Van Zandt she said my heart will ache forever for my beloved Athanase and Aurelia says that her old lover Willie Nicholls is at her feet sitting all the day long yet for all these things she is a brave woman and I will go and see her Willie Nicholls is a good young man and he is rich also but of him I saw nothing at all Cornelia Moran was there and no flower of Paradise is so sweet so fair A very proud girl I am glad she said no to my Joris Come my Lysbet we will now pray and sleep There is so much not to cay CHAPTER XIV The New Days Come One afternoon in the late autumn Annie was sitting watching Hyde playing with his dog a big mastiff of noble birth and character The crea ture sat erect with his head leaning against Hyde and Hydes arm was thrown around his neck as he talked to him of their adventures on the Broad that day Outside there was in the air that November feeling which chills like the passing breath of death But in the house Annie and Hyde and the dog sat within the circle of warmth and light made by the blazing ash logs and in that circle there was at least an atmosphere of sweet content Sud denly George looked up and his eye3 caught those of Annie watching him What have you been reading An nie he asked as he stooped forward and took a thin volume from her lap Why he cried tis Paul and Vir ginia Do you read love stories Yes The mystery of a love af fair pleases every one and I think we shall not tire of love stories till we t3 of the mystery of spring or of primroses and daffodils Love has been cruel to me It has made a cloud on my life that will help to cover me in my grave You still love Cornelia I cannot cure myself of a passion so hopeless However as I see no end to my unhappiness I try to submit to what I cannot avoid My uncle grows anxious for you to marry He would be glad to see the succession of Hyde assured Oh indeed I have no mind to take a wife I hear every day that some of my acquaintance have married I hear of none that have done worse You believe nothing of what you say My uncle was much pleased r j c f ff W l lit It is from Cornelia with Sarah Capel What did you think of the beauty Cornelia has made all other wom en so indifferent to me that if I can not marry her my father niay dispose of me as he chooses Cannot you forget cornelia It is impossible Her very name moves me beyond words Then they were silent and Hyde drew his dog closer and watched the blaze among some lighter branches which a servant had just brought in At his entrance he had also given An nie a letter which she was eagerly reading Hyde had no speculation about it and even when he found Annie regarding him with her whole wwiiiwiwoMMwiwKiw t Ly - iTT ffirnTi i rtrwiwiwwiruu A LOVE STORY BY AMELIA E BARR Copyright 1900 by Amelia E Barr 1 THE MAID af MAIDEN UANE Sequel t6 The Bow of Orange Ribbon soul in her face he failed to under stand as he always had done the noblo love which had been so long and so faithfully hla a love holding itself above endearments self-repressed self sacrificing kept down in the inmost heart chamber a dignified pris oner behind very real bars Yet he was conscious that the letter was of more than usual interest and when the servant had closed the door be- to a i His eyes ran over the sweet words hind him he asked Whom is your letter from Annie It seems to please you very much She leaned forward to him with the paper in her little tremblirig hand and said It is from Cornelia My God he ejaculated and the words were fraught with such feeling as could have found no other vehicle of expression She has sent you dear George a copy of the letter you ought to have received more than two years ago Read it His eyes ran rapidly over the sweet words his face flamed his hands trembled he cried out impetuously But what does it mean Am I quite in my senses How has this let ter been delayed Why do I get only a copy Because Mr Van Ariens has the original It is all incredible What do you mean Annie Do not keep me in such torturing suspense It means that Mr Van Ariens ask ed Cornelia to marry him on the same day that you wrote to her about your marriage She answered both letters in the same hour and misdirected them Gods death How can I punish so mean a scoundrel I will have my letter from him if I follow him round the world for it You have your letter now I ask ed Cornelia to write it again for you and you see she has done it gladly Angel ofNgoodness But I will have my first letter It has been in that raas keeping for more than two years I would not touch it Twould infect a gentleman and make of him a rascal just as base He shall write me then an apology in his own blood I will make him do it at the point of my sword Re member Annie what this darling girl suffered For his treachery she nearly died I speak not of my own wrong it is as nothing to hers However she might have been more careful Annie she was in the happy hour of love Your calm soul knows not what a confusing thing that is she made a mistake and that sneaking villain turned her mistake into a crime By a Gods mere it is found out but how Annie Annie how much I owe you What can I say What enn I do Be reasonable Mary Damer really found it out His guilty conscience forced him to tell her the story though to be sure he put the wrong on people he did not name But I knew so much of theonystery of your love sorrow as to put the stories to gether and find them fit Then I wrote to Cornelia How long ago About two months Why then did you not give me hope ere this I would not give you hope till hope was certain Two years is a long time in a girls life It was a possible thing for Cornelia to have forgotten to have changed Impossible She could not forget She could not change Why did you not tell me I should have known her heart by mine own I wished to be sure repeated Annie a little more sadly Forgive me dear Annie But this news throws me into an unspeakable condition You see that I must leave for America at once No I do not see that George But if you consider I have been considering for two months Let me decide for you now for you are not able to do so wisely Write at once to Cornelia that is your duty as well as your pleasure But before you go to her there are things indispensable to be done Will you ask Doctor Moran for his child and not be able to show him that you can care for her as -she deserves to be cared for Lawyers will not bo haft rled there will be consultations and engrosslngs and signings and love In your case will have to wait upon law TIs hard for love and harder per haps for anger to wait For I am in a passion of wrath at Van Ariens I long to be near him Oh what suf fering his envy and hatred have caused others And himself also The man is hateful to me He has done a thing that makes him hateful I hear your father com ing I am Eure you will have his sympathy in all things She left the room as the Earl en tered it He was in unusually high spirits Some polltical news had de lighted him and without noticing his sons excitement he said The Commons have Jtaken things in their own hands George I said they would They listen to the king and the Lords very respectfully and then obey themselves Most of the men In the Lower House are unfit to enter it Well sir the Lords as a rule send them there you have sent three of them yourself But the government is not interesting I have something else father to think about I have very important news from America Will you listen to it Yes if you will tell it to me straight and not blunder about your meaning Sir I have just discovered that a letter sent to me more than two years ago has been knowingly and purpose ly detained from me Did the letter contain means of identifying it as belonging to you x Ample means Then the man is outside your rec ognition You might as well go to the Bridewell and seek a second among its riff raff scoundrels Tell me shortly whom it concerns Miss Moran Oh indeed Are we to have that subject opened again His face darkened and George with an impetuosity that permitted no interruption told the whole story As he proceeded the Earl became inter ested then sympathetic He looked with moist eyes at the youth so dear to him and saw that his heart was filled with the energy and tenderness of his love He felt that his son had rights all his own and that he must cheerfully and generously allow them George he answered you have won my approval What do you wish to do I am going to America by the next packet You desire to see Miss Moran with out delay that is very natural Yes sir I am impatient also to get my letter I think that of no importance What would you have done in my case and at my age father Something extremely foolish I should have killed the man or been killed by him I hope that you have more sense What does Annie say Annie is an angel I walk far be low her and I hate the man who has so wronged Cornelia I think sir you must also hate him I hate nobody God send that I may be treated the same George you have flashed your sword only in a noble quarrel will you now stain it with the blood of a man below your anger or consideration What do you wish me to do sir I advise you to write to Miss Mo ran at once Tell her you are more anxious now to redeem your promise i than ever you were before Say to her that I already look upon her as a dear daughter and am taking immedi ate steps to settle upon you the American Manor and also such New i York property as will provide for the maintenance of your family in the state becoming your order and your expectations Tell her that my law yers will go to this business row and that as soon as the deeds are in your hand you will come and ask for the interview with Doctor Moran so long and cruelly delayed To be continued BORESOMENESS OF A BEGINNER Why Robinson Was Deserted by His Acquaintances Ruggles Poor old Robinson Its sad the saddest thing in the world perhaps to see a man deliberately j alienate his friends estrange his fain- ily and make himself an outcast and a horror to everybody an do it a- 5SSBaWiMtyiSwsyfwimKiaawff m WATERS RECEDE FROM THE FLOPPED CITIES Danger Considered Over in Kansas City and Topeka St Louis in FeaLr of Disastrous Flood Three Lives Already Lost in Vicinity The latest reports from Kansas City show that the danger from the flood is over and the stricken inhab itants are counting up their losses in lives and property There are about 27600v people temporarily homeless distributed as follows Argentine 2 000 Armourdale 16000 Kansas City Kan 4000 Kansas City Mo 5000 Harlem COO The rain ended June 2 and blue sky was visible for the first time in a week The waterworks have resumed operations and gas already has been turned into the mains This affect ed Kansas City in Missouri only and across the -river the situation is more gloomy and the needs far greater A feature of the flood now regarded as important is the prospective change in the courses of both the Missouri and the Kaw rivers TOPEKA CALLS FOR AID Unable to Cope Alone with the Fear- ful Calamity With 10000 people homeless the inhabitants of the city threatened by contagion crops ruined and with three or four weeks of time to pass before the flood is entirely receded citizens of Topeka decided to appeal to the outside world for help Gov Bailey has issued a proclamation call ing on the charitable people of the country to send assistance in the shape of money A pathetic incident was the drown ing of Edward Grafstrom mechani cal engineer of the Santa Fe by the capsizing of a steam launch he had spent a night and day putting togeth er for rescue work He had saved seventy four persons by his unaided efforts A thorough investigation as to con ditions in and about Topeka and in the water covered portions of Kansas has been instituted Much informa tion was collected enough to prove the general situation is little less than appalling The gist of the informa tion thus gained follows Loss in North Topeka 2000000 Number of homeless 10000 Flooded district uninhabitable for at least three months Known dead forty eight Sanitary conditions due to decay ing carcases and human bodies prom ises to be frightful Territory under water in Kansas probably 3000 square miles or 2000 000 acres Crops this year in flooded district virtually ruined Ricu valleys under many feet of water and raining still in many places Added to the horror and uncertain ly in this region is the belief that well nigh FEARS FOR ST LOUIS ply to gratify a whim too Struggles Why what do you mean Flood Almost Certain to Do Damage I saw him not so very many days ago to That City and he seemed perfectly happy and he j Already beyond the danger line at told me he never was more prosperous j gt Louis the Mississippi river con in all his life tinues to rise and four or five feet Huggles Yes thats just it Poor more 0f water may be seen before the fellow Hes one of those weak kneed j maximum is reached Reports from men who cant stand prosperity up the river indicate that the rise parently As soon as they get a few J wjh continue for a day or two dollars well you know the rest j Much property damage has already Struggles Do you mean hes drink- Deen caused by the flood but with the ing too much higher water to come it is feared the Ruggles No No indeed Its pos- ioss wjh grow to enormous sums sible to feel some sympathy for a man j When the thirty four foot stage who cant resist that temptation But shall be reached there will be two poor old Robinson Its different with him Struggles You cant mean that hes in the toils of a siren Hes too de voted a husband and father for such an escapade Ruggles No Oh no One could wean him perhaps in time from such a miserable Infatuation if it were pos sible to think of him in such an en tanglement But there seems to be no hope in his case Struggles You certainly cant mean that he has Ruggles Yes thats exactly what he has Bought it last week Good heavens here he comes now Hurry up and get out of this or hell be talking automobile to us for the next five hours New York Times unbearable feet of water in the streets on the levee the cellars of which are now nearly full of seep water Damage to the extent of hundreds of thousands of dollars will be done in St Louis and contiguous territory For a week the weather bureau has been sending out warnings of the floods sweeping down from the upper Mississippi and upper Missouri rivers and all have had ample opportunity to seek places of safety There will doubtless be some in the lowlands who will not heed the warn ings until they are surrounded by water but the iacilities for rescuing such here are so ample that none should perish The river has risen to silch a stage at Alton 111 that steamers can pull i near the Chicago Peoria and St Louis right of way and run their gangplanks on the tracks to unload freight The Altonian a ferryboat and dozens of small craft have been sav ing the household effects and cattle of flood victims Hundreds of head of cattle have been rescued Two feet more rise and the Alton glass the boilers will be extinguished A suspension will enforce the idleness of 4500 men Thirty feet the danger point has been passed by the river The crest of the flood from the Kansas and Mis souri rivers is yet to come and when it shall reach St Louis and find aug mentation from the high water in the Mississippi some loss of life Is feared and destruction to property must en sue The first loss of life attending the present1 flood in this vicinity was re ported in the drowning of Mrs Wil liam Schmidt and her two children in an attempt to escape on a flatboat from Catfish island in the Missouri river seven miles southwest cf St Charles Schmidt and his family of four were compelled to abandon their Des Moines Iowa It has been prac tically determined that there will be no extra session of the legislature Gov Cummins is satisfied that he can supply the needs of the flood sufferers and tornado victims by borrowing money and having the next session of the legislature approve his course The situation in Des Moines is still disheartening although the water con tinues to fall rapidly Train service on main lines is once more nearly normal At Ottumwa the water has begun to decline and the danger 1b past Davenport Iowa Flooded streams still block all railroads in this vicinity but the Mississippi is stationary two feet below the danger line St Paul Minn The Minnesota res ervoir is on a rampage caused by the bursting of the dam at Big Stone lake The stream is a mile and a half In width and thirty feet deep The members of an unknown family who recently removed from Oklahoma were all drowned Their house lai strewn along the Mississippi Farm buildings near the river and the bridges have been damaged and the loss to crops will be heavy SCENE IN FLOODED DISTRICT HARLfct PS01 ii1fi7mAU lilllittMII EsSSSStt - SjgfJr iz armourpale rr FROM THE Wf TX SEVENTH VST VIADUCT i many farmers and families lost their lives Bodies of the dead have been seen floating in the torrent frequent ly the last few days Hundreds of cattle were also drowned When the water falls away and the bodies of animals and human beings are at tacked by the sun the physicians fear much sickness will follow Al ready the stench is being noticed and in some quarters of the city is home on the island and loaded a part of their household goods on the small boat In midstream the boat cap sized and Schmidt was able to save only one of his children In some places between here and Alton the river is five to seven miles wide covering thousands of acres of farm land destroying crops and driv ing out the farmers The greatest damage yet reported is at Missouri point at the confluence of the Mis souri and Mississippi rivers where several hundred farmers and their families have been driven from their fertile lands by the high water Still greater damage in this section is feared during the coming rise SITUATION BETTER IN NORTH Iowa Flood Is Passing and State Will Assist Its Sufferers Telegrams from various points gave flood news of general import as fol lows Lincoln Neb The flood danger has passed in southeastern Nebraska but tne high water has left the railroads in a badly crippled condition Lexington Mo The Missouri rivpr is within six inches of the high water mark of 1SS1 Houses amharns are floating down the river The govern ment steamer Atalanta has removed many flood sufferers from lowlands Louisian Mo The Mississippi rive rose one foot here overnight In the country north the crop damage is serious Gait river is rising and steamboats and pleasure launches are rescuing stock New York Telegrams have been sent by Mayor Low to the mayors of Topeka Kansas City and Des Moines tendering his good offices in obtaining relief for flood sufferers Missoula Mont The melting snows in the Couer dAlene mountains are causing a rampage of all streams The tracks of the Northern Pacific are ia danger aear Hope Idaho