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QRAÜSTARIi S'" i The Story of a Love Behind I a Throne. JijijljLÜ Ji.il! By GEORGE DARR M'CUTCHEON

4i4,4444t Copyright, 190 Synopsis of Preceding Chapter. Grenfall I.orry. a youne man of wealth and a traveler. boards the tt-t"unv: txrrfsi ut O-n-r. He expects a tedious trip, but fin I a mysterious and beautiful your.rf woman cn the train ho Interests him and i evidently a foreigner. II I unbif f. -arn anything HtOMt her. Th tiain I. trn-1 throuzh an accident to the t-n gin an-J the mvsterlous your? woman i left bhinl when !t resumes its Journey. Mr. Lorry Voluntarily stays also, though he pretend tht It wan an accident. Mr. Lorry succeeds In getting the. train held at the station four miles awav and the two take a wlM rile over the mountains. Their relations become friendly and the girl tells him her name ia Guggenslocker an.l that sh Is from Edelweiss, the capita! of ;rautark. vuntry of which he ha.- never h-ard. On t train again he makes the acquaintance of he girl's unci; and aunt, in whose tomparf? he ia traveling, and does hi et to e!aMl.h himself In their good graces. The. Gusnnjcckers spend a day In Washington, which id Mr. Lorry's home, and he does the hr:.r. among cthtr thin taking the oun woman out to drive and showing himself bviouly In luve. The visitors leave for New York with the intention of palling Immediately for Euri.. After their departure Lorry 1 unabU to fettle down to business, becomes rektUFs an 1 moody, and before the end of 'immer v tils for Europe with the purpose of viitirg Edelweiss. Jn I'ariii he meets an old coli se friend. Harry Anguish, who Is romantic and ready for adVenture, and who arranges to- accompany him cn hin search for Miss Gugg-nslocke r. After a itood deal of difficulty they find that Ortuatark Is a tiny principality In the mountainous region on Austria's remotest border. Edelweiss, a city of 7i.'. 1 Ita eaoital and metropolis. When they reach there the-y find many soldier in vi dence, and they themselves attract much attention by their distinguished appearance and from tho fact that they are Americans, but they find n- ptople in the place jamed Guggensieker. ext day. In strolling about the street, an elegant carriage drawn by gayly caparisoned whl' hore. attracts their attention, and one of thf 1-idies seated ther?lr. prove to be MIh CJuggen-eiü-kf-r. Sha shows mu h ur;rise at the suht of Ijrry. hut later send him a note setting an hour of the next day for him and his friend to call at her home with an attendant who will come for him. The same night Lorry and An-gui-h overhear a plot to rob the palace and abduct the prince. The chief conspirator is addressed as Michael. Lorry and Anguish, being armed, resolve to frustrate the plot and save, the princess. They gain entrance to the palace. One of the conspirators I Dannox. a palace guard, ly.-rry and Anguish become separated. Lorry, hearing footsteps, conceals himself and passes through a d.xr, finding himself In a sleeping room. A woman speaks. She tells him she is the princess. ijp implores her to be quiet. tells her that there is a plot against her and that he. Till mv her; that he is Grenftall lxrry. h'fir his face fhe tru?ts and obeys. The princess Is Miss (iuggenslocker. Dannox. the special guard, who Is one of the traitors, enters and strike Lorry insriiiVe. Anguish appears on the Hcene and after him I'.aron Dangloss, chief of police, with a squad of men. He had suspected the Americans of evil designs and had followed them to the catle. lie. has the conspirators Instantly taken out and rot, without thinking first to extort from them a confession as to the Identity of their leader, named Michael, who has escaped. Lorry, recovering slowly from hV injury, is kept In the palace and made much of by the princess and her uncle and aunt. Lorry falls more deeply in love than ever, but realizes the hopelessness of his suit. While he U ptlll ronfir.t-d to his room the j.rincess cornea In alone on one occasion to see him. and her klndnesx causes him to forget his prudence and confess hi love, for her. Hhe admits a regard for him. but tells him that the affection Is hopeless, and that they must forget It. She has. however, arranged that he- and Anguish shall be truest at the palace as long h they shall tey in Edelweiss. Anguish wlna the Rffectlona of the Oountces Dagmar, lady-in-waiting to the princess. Iorry learns that Ira ust ark Is on the verge of ruin; that a war debt of $.iO.Q.'0,OoO will shortly fall due. and default means the forfeiture of nearly all of Uraustark cave Edelweiss. CHAPTER XIII. L'ntler Moon and Monastery. For two days Lorry lived through intermittent stages of delight and despondency. Ills reef .try from the effects of the blow ed ministered by Dannox was naturally rapid, his strong young constitution coming to the rescue bravely. He saw much of the Prlnce, more of the Countess Dagmar, and made the acquaintance of many lords and ladles for whom he cared but little except when they chose to talk of their fclrlish ruler. The atmosphere of the castle was laden with a depression that could not be overcome by an assimilated gaiety. There was the presence of a shadow that grew darker and nearer as the days went by, and there were anxious hearts under the brave, rroud spirits of those who held the destiny of Graustark in their hands. The princess could not hide the trouble that had sprung up in her eyes. Her laugh, her gay conversation, her rare composure and gentle hauteur were powerless to drive away the haunted, worried Kleam in those expressive eyes of blue. Lorry had it on h'.s tongue's end a dozen times during the next day or so after the count's narrative to question her about the condition of affairs a they appeared to her. He wondered whether she, little more than a girl, could es and understand the enormity of the situation that confronted her and her people. A 8transe, tender fear prevented him from freaking to her of the thing which was oppressing her life. Not that he expected a rebuff from her, but that he could not endure the thought of hearing her brave, calm recital of the merciless story. He knew that whe could narrate it all to him more plainly than had her uncle. Something told him that she was fully aware of the real and underlying conditions. He could see, in his imagination, the proud, resigned face and manner of this perplexed princess, as she would have talked to him of her woes, and he could also picture the telltale eyea and the troubled expression that could not be disguised. The Countess Dagmar, when not monopolized by the very progressive, or aggressive Angulfh, unfolded to Lorry certain pages In the personal history of the princess, and he, of course, encouraged her confidential humor, although there was nothing encouraging In It for him. Down by the gTeat fountain, while the foldiers were on parade, the fair but volatile countess unfolded to Lorry u story that wrenched his heart so savagely that anger, resentment, helplessness and love oozed forth and enveloped him in a multitude of emotions that would not disperse. To have gone to the princess and laid down his life to save her would have privn him pleasure, but he had promised something to her that could not bi forgotten in a day. In his swelling heart lie prayed for the time to come when he could take her in his arms, cancel nis promise and defy the troubles that opposed her. "She will not mind my telling you. because ho considers you the very best of men. Mr. Lorry." said the countess, who had learned her English under the Princess Yetive's tutor. The demure, sympathetic little counttss. her face glowing with excitement and indignation, could not resist the desire to pour into the ears of this ftrong and resourceful man the secrets of the princess, as if trusting to him, the child of a powerful race, to provide relief. It was the old story of the weak appealing to the etrong. It seems, according; to the very truthful account given by the lady, that the princess had it in her power to ?ave Craustark from clisiiriice and practical destruction. The 1'rince f Axphain s on, Lorenz, was cVply enamored of lur. infatuated hy her marvelous beauty and .i.-eomp!i.-hments. He had persuaded Iii father to eon.-d.ler tt matrimonial alliance with her to be one of fieat value to Axph.iin. The old prince, then-fore, tonne months bfoto the arrival cf the American" in Jraijt;,rk, sent to the princ.ss a Mib-titut- ultimatum, courh.'d In t mis m poll tu and conciliatory that then- ou!d be no mistaking his -iiuvrity. lie iinrt'ftl to kIv.- Jraustark a n-w lea.-e ff life, as It Were, by extending the tifteen year, or. hi other words, to Rrant the conquered an additional ten years in which to pay off the obligations imposed by the treaty. ! furthermore; offered a considerable reduction in the rate of iutcro.-t for

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the next ten years. Hut he had a condition attached to this good and gracious proposition; the marriage of Graustark's sovereign. His ambassador set forth the advantages of uch an alliance, and departed with a message that the matter should have most serious consideration. The old prince's proposition was a blow to the prince-s, who was placed in a trying position. liy sacrificing1 herself she could save her country, but In so doing her life was to be plunged Into Interminable darkness. She did not love, nor did she respect Lorenz, who was not favorably supplied with civilized intelligence. The proposition was laid before the Cabin t and the nobility by the princess herself, who said that she would be jrulded by any decision they might reach. The counsellors, to a man, refused to sacrifice their girlish ruler, and th people vociferously ratified the resolution. Hut the princess would not allow them to send an answer to Axphain until she could see a way clear to save her people In some other manner. An embassy was font to the Prince of Dawsbergen. His domain touched Graustark on the south, and he ruled a wild, turbulent class of mountaineers and herdsmen. This embassy sought to hecure an indorsement of the loan from Prince Gabriel sufficient to meet the coming crisis. Gabriel, himself smitten by the charms of the princess, at once offered himself in marriage, agreeing to advance, in caso she accepted him, twenty million gavvos, at a rather high rate of interest, for fifteen years. His love for her was so great that he would pawn the entire principality for an answer that would make him the happiest man on earth. Now, the troubled princess abhorred Ciabricl. Of the two, Lorenz was much to be preferred. Gabriel Mew into a rage upon the receipt of this rebuff, and openly avowed hB intention to make her suffer. His infatuation became a mania, and, up to the very day on which the countess told the story, he persisted in his appeals to the princess. In person he had gone to her to plead his suit, on his knees, groveling at her feet. He went so far as to exclaim nadly in the presence of the alarmed but relentless object of his love that lie would win her or turn the whole earth into everything unpleasant. So it was that the Princess of Graustark, erstwhile Miss GuRgentdocker. was being dragged through the most unhappy affairs that ever beset a sovereign. Within a month he was to sign away two-thirds of her domain, transforming multitudes of her beloved and loving people into subjects of the hated Axphain, or to sell herself, body and soul, to a loathsome bidder in thc guise of a suitor. And, with all this confronting her, she had come to the realization of a truth so sad and distracting that it was breaking her tortured heart. She was in lovebut with no royal prince! Of this, however, the counttss knew nothing, so Lorry had one great secret to cherish alone. "Has she chosen the course she will pursue?" asked Lorry, as the countess concluded her story. His face was turned away. "She cannot decide. We have wept together over this dreadful, this horrible thing. You do not know what it means to all of us, Mr. Lorry. We love her, and there is not one In our land who would sacrifice her to save this territory. As for Gabriel, Graustark would kill her before she should go to him. Still she cannot let herself sacrifice those no; them subjects when by a single act she can save them. You see, the princess has not forgotten that her father brought this war upon the people, and she feels it her duty to pay the penalty of his error, whatever the cost." "Is there no other to whom she can turn no other course?" asked Lorry. "There Is none who would assist u?, bankrupt as we are. There Is a question I want to ask, Mr. Lorry. Please look at me do not stare at the fountain all the time. Why have you come to Kdel weiss?" She; asked the question so boldly that his startled embarrassment was an unspoken confession. He calmed himself and hesitated long before answering, weighing his reply. She sat close beside him, her clear gray eyes reading him like a book. "I came to see a Miss Guggenslocker," he answered at last. "For what purpose? There must have been an urgent cause to bring you so far. You are not an American banker?" "I had intended to ask her to be my wife," he said, knowing that secrecy was useless and seeing a faint hope. "You did not find Miss Guggenslocker." "No. I have not found her." "And are you going home disappointed, Mr. Lorry, because she is not here?" "I leave the answer to your tender imagination." There was a long pause. "May I ask when you expect to leave Graustark?" she asked, somewhat timidly. "Why do you wish to know?" he asked in turn. "Decause I know how hopeless your quest has been. You have found Miss Guggenslocker, but she is held behind a wall so strong and Impregnable that you cannot reach her with the question you came to ask. You have come to that wall, and row you must turn back. I have asked, how soon?" "Not until your princess bids me take up my load and go. You see. my lady, I love to sit beneath the shadow of the wall you describe. It will require a royal edict to compel me to abandon my position." "You cannot expect the princess to drive you from her country you who have done so much for her. You must go, Mr. Lorry, without her bidding." "I must?" "Yes, for your presence outside that wall 1 may make the imprisonment all the more J unendurable for the one your love cannot j reach. Do you understand me?" j "Has the one behind the wall Instructed j you to say this to me?" he asked miserably. he has not. I do not know her heart, but I am a woman and have a woman's foresight. If you wish to be kind and good 1 to her. go!" "I cannot!" he exclaimed, his pent feelings bursting forth. "I cannot go!" "You will not be so selfish and so cruel as to increase the horror of the wreck that is sure to come." she said, drawing back. "You know, countes. of the life-saving crews who draw from the wrecks of ships lives that w re hopele-.-Iy lost? There i.s to be a wreck here; is the e to be a life-saver? When the night is darkest, the sea wildest, when hop,- is gone, is not that the time when rescue is mot precious? Tell me, you who know all there is of this approaching disaster?" "I cannot command you to leave LMel1 weiss; I tan only tell you tht vom u-mi a - ----- ---j-aia have something to answer for If you stay," -aid the countess. "Will you help me If I i-how to you that I can reach the wreck and save the one who clings to It despairingly?" he asked, smiling, suddenly calm and confident. "Wlllinqly. for i love the one who is go

ing down in the sea. I have spoken to you seriously, though, and I trust you will not misunderstand me. I like you and I like Mr. Anguish. You could stay here forever so far as I am concerned." He thought long and Intently over what she had said as he smoked his cigar on the great balcony that night. In his heart he knew he was adding horror, but that persistent hope of the life-saver came up fresh and strong to combat the argument. He saw, in one moment, the vast chasm between the man and the princess; in the next, he laughed at the puny space. Down on the promenade he could see the figures of men and women strolling in the moonlight. To his ears came the occasional laugh of a man. the silvery gurgle of a woman. The royal military band was playing in the stand near the edge of the great circle. There was gaiety, comfort, charm and security about everything that came to his eyes and ears. Was it possible that this peace, unruffled, was so near Its end? He smiled as he heard Harry Anguish laugh gaily In his good oid way, his ringing tones mingling with a woman's. There was no trouble in the hearts of the countess and her blithe comrade. Hehind him rose the grim castle walls. , from the windows of which, here and there, gleamed the lights of the night. Where was she? He had seen her in the afternoon and had talked with her, and walked with her. Their conversation had been bright, but of the commonplace kind. She had said nothing to indicate that she remembered the hour spent beside his couch a day or so before; he had uttered none of the words that struggled to rush from his lips the questions, the pleadings, the vows. Where was she now? Not in that gay crowd below, for he had scanned every figure with the hawk's eye. Closeted again, no doubt, with her ministers, vvearyins her tired brain, her brave heart into fatigue without rest. Her court still trembled with the excitement of the daring attempt of the abductors and their swift punishment. Functionaries flocked to Edelweiss to inquire after the welfare of the princess, and indignation was at the highest pitch. There were theories innumerable as to the Identity of the arch-conspirator. Baron Dangloss was at sea completely. He cursed himself and everybody else for the hasty and ill-timed execution of the hirelings. It was quite evident that the buzzing wonder and intense feeling of the people had for the moment driven out all thought of the coming day of judgment and its bitter atonement for all Graustark. To-day the castle was full of the nobi Ity, drawn to its walls by the news that had startled them beyond all expression. The police were at work, the military trembled with rage, the people clamored for the apprehension of the man who had been the instigator of this audacity. The general belief was that some brigand chief from the south had planned the great theft for the purpose of securing a fabulous ransom. Grenfall Lorry had an astonishing theory In his mind, and the more he thought it over the more firmly it was imbedded. The warm, blue coils from the cigar wafted away into the night, carrying with them a myriad of tangled thoughts of her, of Axphain, of the abductor, of himself, of everything. A light step On the stonefloor of the shadowy balcony attracted his attention. He turned his head and saw the Princess Yetive. She was walking slowly toward the balustrade, not aware of his presence. There was no covering for the dark hair, no wrap about the white shoulders. She wore an exquisite gown of white, shimmering with the reflections from the moon that scaled the moun-i top. She stood at the balustrade, her r ids clasping a bouquet of red roses, her chin lifted, her eyes gazing toward the mountain's crest, the prettiest picture he had ever seen. The strange dizziness of love overpowered him. His hungry eyes glanced upward towards the sky which she was blessing with her gaze, and beheld another picture, gloomy, grim, cheerless. Against the moonlit screen of the universe clung the black tower of that faraway monastery in the clouds, the home of the monks of St. Valentine. Out of the world, above the world, a part of the sky itself, it stooei like the spectre of a sentinel whose ghostly guardianship appalled and yet soothed. He could not, would not move. To have done so meant the desecration of a picture so delicate that a breath upon its surface would have swept it forever from the vision. How long he reveled in the glory of the picture he knew not, for it was as if he looked from a dream. At last he saw her look down upon the roses, lift them slowly and drop them over the rail. They fell to the ground below. He thought he understood; the gift of a prince despised. They were not twenty feet apart. He advanced to her side, his hat in one hand, his stick the one that felled the Viennesetrembling in the other. "I did not know you were here," she exclaimed, in half frightened amazement. "I left my ladies inside." He was standing beside her, looking down into the eyes. "And I am richer, because of your ignorance," he said softly. "I have seen a picture that shall never leave my memory never! Its beauty enthralled, enraptured. Then I saw the drama of the roses. Ah, your highness, the crown Is not always a mask." "The roses were were of no consequence," she faltered. "I have heard how you stand between two suitors and that wretched treaty. My heart has ached to tell you how I pity you." "It is not pity I need, but courage. Tity will not aid me in my duty, Mr. Lorry. It stands plainly before me, this duty, but I have not the courage to take it up anel place it about my neck forever." "You do not, cannot love this Lorenz?" he asked. "Love him!" she cried. "Ach. I forget! You do not know him. Yet I shall doubtless be his wife." There was an eternity of despair in that low, steady voice. "You shall not! I swear you shall not!" "Oh. he is a prince! I must accept the offer that means salvation to Graustark. Why do you make it harder with torture which you think is kindness? Listen to me. Next week I am to give my answer. He will be here, in this castle. My father brought this calamity upon Graustark; I must lift it from the people. What has my happiness to do with it?" Her sudden strength silenced him, crushed him with the real awakening of helplessness. He stood beside her, looking up, at the cold monastery, strangely conscious that she was gazing toward the same dizzy height. "It looks peaceful up there," she said at last. "Iut so cold and cheerless." he added, drearily. There was another long silence in which two hearts communed through the medium of that far-away sentinel. "They have not discovered a clew to the chief abductor, have they?" ho asked, in an effort to return to his proper sphere. "Haron Dangloss believes he has a dev. a meager and unsatisfactory one, he admitsand to-day sent officers to Ganlook to investigate the actions of a strange man who was there last week, a man who styled himself the Count of Arabazon, and who claimed to be o' Vienna. Some Austrians had been hunting stags and bears in the north, however, and it is possible he is one ef them." She spoke slowly, her eyes still bent on the home of the monks. "Your highness. I have a theory, a Ix-M and perhaps a criminal theory, but you will , allow 111c lo tell you why I am possessed of

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Both Phones it. I am aware that there is a Prince Gabriel. It is my opinion that no Viennese is guilty, nor 'are the brigands to be accused of this masterpiece in crime. Have you thought how far a man may go to obtain his heart's desire?" She looked at him instantly, her eyes wide with growing comprehension, the solution to the mystery darting into her mind like a flash. "You mean " she began, stopping as if afraid to voice the suspicion. "That Prince Gabriel is the man who bought your guards and hired Geddos and Ostrom to carry you to the place where he could own you, whether you would or no," said Lorry. "Cut he could never have forced me to marry him, and I should, sooner or later, have exposed him," she whispered argumentative'. "He could not expect me to be silent and submit to a marriage under such circumstances. He knows that I would denounce him, even at the altar." "You do not appreciate my estimate of that gentleman." "What is to become of me!" she almost sobbed, in an anguish of fear. "I see now I Fee plainly! It was Gabriel, and he would have done as you say." A shudder ran through her figure and he tenderly whispered in her car: "The danger is past. He can do no more, your highness. Were I positive that he is the man and I believe he is I would hunt him down this night." Her eyes closed happily under his gaze, her hand dropped timidly from his arm and a sweet sense of security tilled her soul. "I am not afraid," she murmured. "Because I am here?" he asked, bending nearer. "Decause God can bless with the same hand that punishes," she answered, enigmatically, lifting her lashes again and looking into his eyes with a love at last unmasked. "He gives me a man to love and denies me happiness. He makes of me a woman, but He does not unmake me a princess. Through you, He thwarts a villain; through you, He crushes the innocent. More than ever, I thank you for coming Into my life. You and you alone, guided by the God who loves and despises me, saved me from Gabriel." "I only ask " he began, eagerly, but she interrupted. "You should not ask anything, for I have said I cannot pay. I owe to you all I have, but cannot pay the debt." "I shall not again forget," he murmured. "To-morrow, if you like. I will take you over the castle and let you see the squalor in which I exist my throneroom, my chapel, my banquet hall, my ballroom, my conservatory, my sepulchre. You may say it is wealth, but I shall call it poverty," she said, after they had watched the black monastery cut a square corner from the moon's circle. "To-morrow, if you will be so kind." 'Perhaps I may be poorer after I have saved Graustark," she said. "I would to God 1 could save you from that!" he said. "I would to God you could," she said. Her manner changed suddenly. She laughed gayly, turning a light face to his. "I hear your friend's laugh out there in the darkness. It is delightfully infectious." To bo Continued Next Tuesday. Look I.Ike (irnnt and Knoun It. New York Press. At No. &n Broadway is a line old gentleman of the name of Clark who is afflicted with a resemblance. When a customer meets him almost the first words are, "Why. Mr. Clark, you remind mo of General Grant: I never saw such a likeness." The remark has been made so frequentlv that Mr. Clark is tind of it and does hi" brst to head it off. He will let you go as lar as. "Why. Mr. Clark, you ." then iaise his hand warningly and say: "Pardon me. 1 know what you are about to t-:i me. and the compliment Is always appreciated. If I had a dollar for very time I have been informed that 1 look like General Grant I would t? a millionaire. And strange to say. I know j p.ok like him. The resemblance goes even so far as this mole on my cheek, which is exactlv the siz or Grant's and in the same identical sp'q ." A f On-. The Ohio and InciLna Oil Company has jut put In a new w-ll on their land at Lima, Ohio, which Is flowing fiftv barrels a day. This Is the company's thirty-ninth Ii.

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as Til 13 SLNHAY-SCIIOOJ, I.i:SSO. Nov. l!H)lt Death of Jomepb fit 11 es Im 1, 15-'JC. In his prophetic ode. olier than the Iliad by 700 years, Jaccb describes Joseph as "A fruitful bouRh. A fruitful bough by a fountain. Whose bianches run over the wall." Thrift, beauty, f rultfulness, ore traits of Joseph's admiiable character. He is a lovely idea), a rare model for ambitious youths of successive generations in all lands. Joseph's accession to sui reme iower and immense wealth was unprecedentedly sudden, yet with ma?terful self-possession he kejit his equilibrium. Ho maintained the state which was becoming to his Imperial jositlon, accommodated himself to the etiquette cf court, but his head was never turned by his surprising good fortune. He recognized himself as the instrument of a wonder-working Providence. His oft-repeated "God meant it for good" is the clew to the secret of his superb bearing. He had consciously come to this office of trust and power that he might be the almoner of mercy to the perishing, a preserver of life. All nations were beginning to be blessed in Abraham's seed, the material being the pledge of the spiritual yet to come. Joseph's filial piety is among the most lustrous traits of his amiable character. He sent means for his father's comfortable conveyance to Egypt. He went up in state, not Incognito, to meet him. In a transport of Joy he threw his arms about him, and wept upon his neek a good while. He was not ashamed to go into Pharaoh's presence and say: "My father is come." He was not at all embarrassed at presenting the trembling old rustic at the blazing court of Heliopolis; and that, too, although his occupation was, for political reasons, peculiarly obnoxious In Egypt. He settled him In that "land of verdure," Goshen. When news came that his father was sick, he instantly laid aside his portfolio of xtate. and. thoughtfully taking his two sons with him. hurried to the bedside. He- listened with awe, and committed to memory Jacob's swan song, in which the destiny of his own and his brothers descendants was set forth. When the spirit took its flight, Joseph fll upon his father's face and wept upon him and kissed him. He attended to the obsequies with marked fidelity, embalming the body, and mourning forty days a princely period. He obtained a firman, and led the most picturesque funeral cortege into Canaan that country ever saw, thus observing minutely his father's dying request, however great the inconvenience. Joseph is the ideal brother as well a3 the exemplary ton. Tne unnatural bearing of Joseph's brothers toward him is finely depicted in Jacob's lyric. They were the archers who had grieved him, and shot at him, and hated him. Hut when the wheel of fortune threw them at his feet, when by the slightest sign he might have rid himself forever of thir uncanny company, he tested them; quickened their compunctions, true; but finJing them penitent, he forgave thm promptly and unreservedly. In the most delicate and refined manner he sought to save them from being swallowed up of overmuch sorrow by directing their attention to the happy providential outcome of their evil deed. He was not ashamed to confess them before Egypt's throne, paying: "My brethren are come." He named to -Pharaoh for otrice the five most likely to stand the civil-service examination. He never lisped a syllable of reminJtr of the literal fulfillment of his dream, though sheaves and stars were doing him homage. When, on Jacob's death, a mediator between the offenders and the offended was removed, conscience made cowards of the brothers, and their old fear flamed up again with all its original intensity. Joseph might well have shown pique at th ir offensive lark of confidence in him. He did r.nt. Cm the eontrar. be wan touched to pity at their lenn.re. which after nearly forty years was ftill gnawing at their hf-arts. J,.?nh vept. He a?surred the-m he had no disposition to usurp the prerogative cf Hi:n who sajs. "en:?eam- i mine." and pointed them again to the beneficial outcome, of their unhrntherly deed. He bade them far not. assuring then ho would nourish th m. He comforted and t-pok kindly to them. .iKh forgiv ress uf the injurious and murderous i.s unsurpassed exrept by Him who cried from his cross, "Father, torsive them." Joseph's faith shlr.es with incandescent lust. r. In a polytheistic envlror.nwMit he kept himself and his s .ns monotheistic. He believed in .he promls- made by Clod to his father. literally. He had lived eighty years In Egypt, but Ftill counted Canaan h-nne. He would rather have the l.umblest grave by

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