The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, May 09, 1907, Image 7
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i CONQUEST
OF CANAAN
Zy CCOTH TARKPiGTON. |
'jkW.Ssr o? "CJ\ert7." "MoAsievr Be*.uCA.rre,"
Etc.
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(Continued from page 6 )
CHAPTER XII.
MAMIE, waiting just inside th?
door as Ariel and Eugene en
tered. gave the visitor a pale
A A greeting and a moment later,
bearing; the wheels of the brougham
crouch the gravel of the carriage drive,
hurried away down the broad hall and
disappeared. Ariel dropped her parasol
upon a uinrble topped table near
the door aud. removing her gloves,
drifted into a room at the left where
a grand piano found shelter beneath
crimson plush. After a moment of
contemplation she pushed back the coverlet
and. seating herself upon the
plush covered piano stool (to match),
let her fingers run up and down the
keyboard oiu-e and fall listlessly In her
lap as she gazed with deep interest at
three life sized colored photographs In
carved gilt frames upon the wall she
was facing?Judge Tike, Mamie and
Mrs. Pike, with her rubies.
"Please don't stop playing. Miss Tabor,"
said a voice behind her. She had
not observed that Eugene had followed
her Into the room.
"Very well, if you like," she answered,
looking up to smile absently at
him, and she began to play n rakish little
air which, composed by some rattlebrain
at a cafe table, had lately skipped
out of the Moulin Rouge to disport
itself over Paris. She played It slowly
In the minor, with elfish pnthos,
while he leaned upon the piano, his
eyes Died upon her fingers, which bore
few rings?none, he observed with an
unreasonable pleasure, upon the third
finger of the left band.
"Ifs one of those simpler Grieg
tilings, isn't it?" be said, sighing gently.
"I care for Grieg."
"Would you mind its being Cbaminade?"
she returned, dropping her eyes
to cloak the sin.
"Ah. no; I recognize it now," replied
Eugene. "He appeals to me even more
than Greig."
At this she glanced quickly up at
him, but more quickly down again, anu
hastened the time emphatically, swinging
the little air into the major.
/ "Do you play 'The Pilgrim's Chor/
ua?"
She shook her bead.
"Vous name pas Wagner?" inquired
Eugene, leaning toward her.
"Oh, yes," she answered, bending
her head far over, so that her face was
concealed from him. except the chin,
which, he saw with a thrill of inexk
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pucauie tU.UlU*!, ? .13 IL CU1UMUJS
ly. There were some small white flowers
upon her hat, and these shook too.
When she turned to him he was surprised
to see that she looked astonishingly
happy, almost as if she had been
struggling with joy iustead of pain.
"This chair," she said, sinking intc
it, "makes me feel at home."
Naturally he could not understand.
"Because." she explained, "I once
thought I wu3 going to live in it. II
has been reupholstered, but I should
know it if I met it anywhere in the
world." <
"How very odd!" exclaimed Eugene
staring.
"I settled here in pioneer days," she
weijt on, tapping the arms lightly witt
.hef finger tips, "It was the last dance
I went to In Canaan."
"I fear the town was very provlncla
at that time," be returned, having com
pletely forgotten the occasion she men
tloned. therefore wishing to shift th<
subject. "I fear you may still find it
so. There Is uot much hero (hat one Is
in' sympathy with Intellectually?few
people really of the world."
"Few people. I suppose you mean,'
she said softly, with a look that wenl
deep Into his eyes?"few people wh<
really understand one."
Eugene had seated himself on the si!
of an open window close by. "Then
has been." be answered, with the ghos
of a sigh, "no one."
Mamie appeared in the doorway, ant
Eugene rose swiftly. "I have beei
trying to persuade Miss Tabor," he ei
plained, with something too much a
laughter, "to play again. You heart
that little thing of Charalnade's"? ?
Mamie did not appear to hear him
She entered breathlessly, and then
was no color in her cheeks. "Ariel,1
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he exclaimed. "I don't want yon to ]
think I'm a tale bearer"? j
"Oh. my dear!" Ariel said, with a ,
gesture of deprecatiou. <
"No." Miss Tike went on, all in one ]
; breath, "but 1 am afraid you will j
think it. because papa knows, and he
wants to see you."
"What is It that be knows?" 1
"That you were walking with Joseph 1
j Louden!" (Tills was as if she had l
said. "That you poisoned your moth- 1
' er "i "I didn't tell him. but when he 1
j, saw yon with him I was troubled and
asked Eugene what I'd better do. because
be always knows what is best." ;
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"'It's one of those simpler Gricq thlmjs, c
isn't itt" he said. j I
(Mr. Bantry's expression, despite this I ^
; tribute, was not happy.) "And he advised
me to tell mamma about It and ! '
leave it in her hands. But she always t
i tells papa everything"? 8
i "Certainly; that is understood." said 1
i Anel slowly, turning to smile at Eu- _
gene.
The daughter of the house exhibited
' signs of consternation. "He wants to see
you," she repeated falte-'ngly.
"He's in the library."
Having thus discharged her errand. 1 .
1 j she hastened to the front door, wbleti
had been left open, and out to the
[ steps, evidently with the intentlou of
| removing herself as soon and as far as 1
, possible from the vicinity of the li- j '
: | brary. t
Eugene, visibly perturbed, followed
her to the doorway of the room and s
paused. p
"Do you know the way?" he inquir- j
, ed, with a note of solemnity. j j
"Where?" Ariel had not risen. v
"To the library."
) "Of course," she said, beaming upon .
! him. "I was about to ask you if you
1 i wouldn't speak to the judge for me. 1
This Is such a comfortable old friend. 2
' this chair." i t
! "Speak to liim for you?' repeated
i the nonplused Eugene. ;
She nodded cheerfully. "If 1 may
i trouble you. Tell him certainly I 1
j shall be glad to see bim."
| Eugene went. There was nothing
( else to do. And he wished with every
. step that the distance to the portals '
| of the library might have been greater.
, | In whatever guise he delivered the
summons, it was perfectly efficacious.
[ ' A door slammed, a heavy and rapid
, j tread was heard in the hall, and Ariel.
; without otherwise moving, turned her
head and offered n brilliant smile of
greeting.
> ! "It was good of you," she said as the
i I doorway filled with red, imperial wrath.
> j "to wish to have a little chat with me. j
I'm anxious, or course, 10 gu over ^
' afTairs with you. and last night after
my journey I was too tired. But now
we might begin, not in detail, of course,
i Just yet. That will do for later when
1 I've learned more about business." 1
' The great one had stopped on the
r threshold. ' *
"Madam," he began coldly, "when I <
say ray library I mean my"? 1
' i "Oh, yes," she interrupted, with ami- <
* | able weariness; "I know. You mean |
j yon keep all the papers and books of j
I the estate iu there, but I think we'd j
' j better put them off for a few days"? j <
j "I'm not talking about the estate!" ]
I j he exclaimed. "What I want to talk
; to you about is being seen with Joseph
Louden!" !
f "Yes." she nodded brightly. "That's
j along the line we must take up first." 1
"Yes, It is!" He hurled his bull bass ^
at her. "You knew everything about ; 1
l him and his standing in this communi- !
? ty! I know you did. because Mrs. Pike i
I told me you asked all about him from ]
"j Mamie after you came last night, and. ]
see here, don't you"?
"Oh, but I knew before that," she i
i laughed. "I bad a correspondent in
I Canaan, one who has always taken a
great Interest in Mr. Louden. I asked . ,
Miss Pike only to get her own point of j ,
view."
"I want to tell you. madam." he |
shouted, coming toward her, "that no
member of my household"?
"That's another point we must take
up today. I'm glad you remind me of j '
It," she said thoughtfully, yet with so
magically compelling an intonation
that he stopped bis shouting in the i
middle of a word, stopped with au
j apoplectic splutter "We must arrange
! Jo put the old house In order at once." , 1
"We'll arrange uothing of the sort." i
! he responded after a moment of angry
' silence. "You're going to stay right |-'
i here."
j "Ah, 1 know your hospitality," she \ j
; bowed graciously. "But of course I
| must not tax It too far. And about ]'
| Mr. Louden? As I said, I want to
I speak to you about him."
"Yes," he Intervened harshly, "so da
[, and I'm going to do it quick! You'll
Bnd"?
Again she mysteriously baffled him.
'He's a dear old friend of mine, you
know, and I have made up my mind
that we both need his help, you and I."
"What!"
"Yes," she continued calmly, "in a
ouslness way, I mean. I know you
lave great Interests in a hundred directions,
all more Important than mine,
[t isn't fair that you should bear the
whole burden of my affairs, and I
think it will be best to retain Mr.
Louden as my man of business. He
jould take all the cares of the estate
>ff your shoulders."
Martin Pike spoke no word, but he
ooked at her strangely, and she watchMi
him with sudden keenness, leaning
forward in her chair, her gaze alert
)ut quiet, fixed on the dilating pupils
)f his eyes. He seemed to become
lizzy, and the choleric scarlet which
lad overspread his broad face and big
leek faded splotchily.
Still keeping her eyes upon him, she
went on: "I haven't asked him yet
ind so 1 don't know whether or not
ie'11 consent, but I think it possible
hat he may come to see me this afterioou,
and if he does we can propose
t to him together and go over things
t little."
Judge Pike recovered his voice.
'He'll get a warm welcome," he promised
huskily, "if he sets foot on my
iremises!"
"You mean you prefer I shouldn't
eceive him here?" She nodded pleasintly.
"Then certainly I shall not.
Juch things are much better for offices;
rou are quite right." She swept lighty
and quickly to the door, where she
mused, gathering her,skirts. "I shall
lot detain you another instant! And
f Mr. Louden comes this afternoon I'll
emember. I'll not let him come in,
>f course. It will be perhaps pleasinter
to talk over my proposition as
ve walk!"
There was a very faint, spicy odor,
Ike wild roses and cinnamon, left in
he room where Martin Pike strxl
done, staring whitely at the open dojrvay.
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(Continued next week.)
tup ni npqt pity
IIW Wh.Ua.VI VI
)amucus, Soen by Saul of Tarsus, It
Still In Existence.
If you were suddenly asked to
lame the oldest eitv in the world
rhich is still in a flourishing condiion,
what would he your answer?
In nine cases out of ten the peron
to whom such a query might he
>ropounded would hark back to
Sgypt, Greece or Ivome. He would
>e wrong. The oldest city in the
I'orld is Damascus.
Tyre and Sidon have crumbled on
he shore, Baal bee is a ruin, Palmy a
is buried in a desert, and Nineveh
md Babylon have disappeared from
he Tigris and the Euphrates. Danascus
remains what it was before
he days of Abraham?a center of
radc and travel?an isle of verdure
11 the desert, "a presidential capial,"
with martial and sacred associations
extending through thirty
:enturies.
It was near Damascus that Saul
)f Tarsus saw the light above the
irightness of the sun. The street
vhich is called Strait, in which it
ivas said "he prayed," still runs
hrough the city.
The city which Molmmmed surveyed
from a neighb&fcng height
md was afraid to enter "because it
vas given to man to have but one
paradise, aDd for his part he was
esolved not to have it in this
world," is today what Julian called
:he "Eye of die East," as it was in
;he time of Isaiah "the head of Sv*ia."
From Damascus came the dam on,
our blue plums, and the delinous
apricot of Portugal called darcaseo;
damask, our beautiful fabric
if cotton and silk, with vines and
lowers raised upon n smooth, bright
ground; the damask rose introduced
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into England in tne time 01 nenry
VIII.; the Damascus blade, so famous
the world over for its keen
?dge and wonderful elasticity, the
?ecrot of whose manufacture was
lost when Tamerlane carried the
firtist into Persia, and that beautiful
art of inlaying wood and steel
with gold and silver, a kind of mosaic
engraving and sculpture united,
called damaskeening, with which
boxes, bureaus and swords are ornamented.?Scrap
Book.
Much Broken by Miafortuno.
Mrs. Cartvrright, in search of a
painter to touch up her kitchen
v l i- V 1 T
walls, was oirccieu 10 .\apoieuu uamere.
''Do you think," asked Mrs.
Cartwright, eying tottering Napoleon
doubtfully, "that you could
paint the side walls of mv kitehen
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"But yes, madam," returned Napoleon,
"eef dose appartment eet
ees not of a too large highness. Eef
you 'ave som w't you call low down
iob, me, I can do heem de mos'
bes' of hannybody else.
"But, madam! Helas! No more
can I do dose up high ceiling, dose
steep roof, dose so elevate church
steep', dose skyscrape. Me, I 'ave
hon ma two foot too great of de
shake. Behol'! Already, madam,
me, 1 'ave de large misfortune to
broke seex of ma laig."
CURIOSITY.
In It* Proper Sphere It Is a Noble and
Serviceable Quality.
Upon the higher level curiosity
is a noble and serviceable quality,
1 without which no great thing can
1 be done in science or literature. It
j vas intellectual curiosity which susj
tained a man like Darwin in his
lcug and patient labors. He was deI
termined to find out the how of the
I universe, and he had ail the instinct
| cf a curious person for th^ gather1
ing and arrangement of doiaiis. He
j was forever observing r.r.d tracing
1 and detecting and ovr >king.
ltenan's biographe. w .Is ;-s that
to the last he was sti i <; ie:tionin'g i
the universe, still asking what was
the meaning of things and how they
j came to pass. Without curiosity the
scholar would lose half his interest
j and the thinker would fall by the
: way. It is this instinct which makes
a man wish to get at the Jjottom of
things. If it be the aifa.rs of his
neighbor, it is base; if it be the af- !
fairs of the world, it is great, wnen i
cn- iosity dies within a man achievement
is hopeless and hope itself is
dead.
Curiosity may lc a valuable asset
in the equipr.ie'.: -"f a professional j
j man. Without :: . :> parish clergy man
never vi'i have : a intimate
knowledge of the aii'.i.s of his people,
for he never will take the trouble
to leern them. What he is told
he almost certainly will forget,
while a toucli of curiosity will store
up every piece of information and
watch even* passing incident and
catch hold of every suggestion in
cor versa tion.
By and by the history of every
I one, old and young, will be in the
j man's possession. Of course, if he
j be an ignoble man, then his knowledge
will be intolerable; if he be a
sympathetic man, it will be most valuable.
In the same way a physician or a
lawyer will be greatly helped by a
legitimate and regulated curiosity
about his fellow creatures. And it
must be said that if curiosity of one
kind makes a man detestable curiosity
of another kind makes him
most popular.?Ian Maclareri (Rev.
John Watson).
Snakea.
The popular idea that all snakes ,
hiss is incorrect when anacondas are
in question, if we may believe a
close observer of the serpent family.
The sound they rlakc is more like
a growl than a hiss and has been
I 1' U/?/l Ki? o f T?O rol ar Q C O ,
WtJil UCM' 11UVU uj a uo M .
"low, roaring noise/' Their powers '
of deglutition are sufficiently won-:
derful to make exaggeration unnec-j
essary, credible witnesses testifying
to the fact that one has been known
to swallow a horse, while bullocks
are not infrequently attacked also,
lew" nonsciestif/c readers, by thej
v.\?v, are aware that not only do the
jaw hinges of the boa tribe become .
dislocated in the act of swallowing
a lar-re animal, subsequently resum- 1
ing their proper position by means
of the elastic connecting tendons, ,
but that the skull bones separate
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