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FAVORS INE BR��
OR A LOOK INTO THE PAST
CHAPTER V,—(Cont'd)
"Oh! no, I don't;; not just iia -
n
x n daua, Who are
ed et n fine sxaa
rot, ra like to know, as should
aid .' zee about. I ain't no in =
apostor. 1 don't creep into peo-
ple's houses. You ain't no better
nor me, when all's said and done.,
You little think I knows so ra neo
but you see I does, Grocers' rlieps
ain't quire as gond as Ripstoue
'.All, is they, my fine young lady..
' ;o, you don't pass," as Nancy
made a• gesture to wave him aside,
ain't aerie with yer, l' IntN4
o be even with yer for the dirt';
crick yer done me—to make me
lose any bread and butter, ala 1--"
"Tell nae what you wait, me tt
~
and if it• is in my power a ''
Miall ere done," Nancy said, c#1'zck
ly, feeling" a not unnatural sense
if alarm and deep irei`ation at the
s'an's vulgar abuse. She re ret-
"No, no," she whispered, feebly,
for her strength was almost spent,
and her heart was beating life ,a
sedge-haniuer in her breast,
"let
—let ]aim ga.)i
..TJ, return and insult you
again," Darnley asked, his dat c
face fixed and stern. "Who is the
.Haan, Nancy; do yea know hind
This 'natter must be put in the
hands of the police; such curs as
this must be properly handled."
Then he turned back to the: girl ;
she had sunk against the stile,
trembling in every limb, and lead
grower ashen, white. Not until this
moment did she realise bow fright-
ened she had been. "You are not
hurt, deari" Darnley asked, gent
ly and tenderly, "B a Jove.: was
y I
only inst. La time then " he ad�
ded, as she shook her head; "it was
Y
by the. xncrest 'chance that I ca nc
here. I suddenly took it into my
head to walk along and meet you
led suddenly that she la.ad no mi:neY as you returned, Dolly told me
vith her. "1 had. noch.;ng tO dei you, would be etre to COMO tris
critilhli vomu . �losing our ,Vuu way, ans-a
have, yourself to thank for that, "And, ln
is;
lcc Nancy, 'with
taint mil", thorgh something .:
a
tai
"I want no lies," the mite re- 1de words and tone had brought the
plied, brutally "roe can faintest tinge ocolor tq her pale
teep'eel for yer grand folk. cheeks, "andoye. are erableda
;vents money, eolamensation; 4
money* T email to 'ave by 'ma: o
;rook, so I warn ger,"
Nancy east :a, hurried gland frog
cleat to left.She was 41g11c.,- lilt, :i
1 waaa to be seen; this Man wa
ere, and she had'sot
her, li ']rat was sae t;,
so
brow
soul r
dof
"I tell you 1 area: very :surryel
eon," she sastl, nervously.
!lave me, it was not 'my fault yo
were dismissed; but, as you see
i
v'1 you t
,e will al
nal >r la
blame a ,
you get another situation. I e
say no more."'
"le very* generees offer,"' water
tete coward, "but as you've
it, I accepts it. 1 don't see why
I shouldn't, live like a. gennelmz u,.
as•ou are :such a fiue lady --come,
lkan ; us over some of the tin. Shall'
we say five pounds to begin with 7-- i down. Stay, I will make you com-
and look here, my young madam, fortable," and without any more
holda close tongue about this, or ado, Mr. Darnleey simply lifted
it will be the worse for yer. I: 'her
Hamilton fame tete ground to
ain't been'a pal of Tom Moss'. for her old co: ler on the stile,
--'whom slie already saw regarded I.
her as something delicate and de-
lightful—dive into the past, and
know all the shame she had been
called Alien to endure through
Thomas Moss.
She felt that Darnley wouldbe
visibly shocked were she to speak
of that brutal kiss that Moss had
dared to press on her face the ev-
ening of her flight from her uncle's
bonze.
Had it not been for this, Nancy
would have spoken freely, and told
the young man exactly all she fear-
ed; but, knowing nothing, it was
not strange that Mr. Darnley should
be both annoyed and pained at her
LIFE IN CITY OF B. C. 2000
OLD DA1111,0iM AN llEC0R.1)S
OF CLAY 1) i CIPI1E11RE3>'
They Relate to :the Everyday At.
fairs 'ot tees, Citizens of
Dilbat,
A correspondent of the London
Standard gives some interesting de-
tails of a store of cuneiformswrit-
ten tablets recently discovered at
the ancient town of Dilbat, near
eurio as hesntaton to ,hand over. the Babylon. The tablets tell in gra:
miscreant who had attacked her to
aAuthor-
ities,
dealt wail. the proper a a h
be by p p
.ties, for that she knew him he was
(,Brite' certain.
Re kept silent for a few minutes,
occupying himself with chopping off
the heads of the 'flowering weeds,
bluebells and other pretty blooms
growing near.
Nancy saw that he was annoyed,
and felt a sense of depression steal
over her as, she glanced clow and
then at his moody, downcast fac
,
d'resemtly she roused herself.
"I --I think I must be going, fir.
Darnley," she said, almost timid-
ly.
Tile yoiuig ]liana turned at once,
"allow me to help you that stf le
is -rather high," he said, with cabal
a "t.,. , di , i of e',
qie la mess bait he �ca. rent if .1 to
lift her down, as he had lifted her
up, and :N n. felt the chill des ll).aey e i'
ion creep still closer uponher, ecce the southern face cit Babylon's'
As she smoothed down hea• pink ramparts and upon it opened ono
muslin skirts and began nervously of the great city's gates dedicated
its put on leer gloves, something NB to the ged Tires. It ltd away south
-
ons her ehatelaiue. ward to Dilbat, which, as the new -
"You have dropped something," ly found records inform us, was
Darnley said, quickly, and there- built between the eanal and the
upon be stooped rend handed her 1✓upiirates for some of the tablets
refer to pieces of property
IN LAND OR IfOUSES,
phic manner the story of the
citi-
zens, their business transactions,
disputes everyday life.
[hey are not the usual royal
edicts and records, but what may
best be termed family archives.
They relate to a very early period,
being mostly dated in the reigns
of the predecessors of that 'nighty
monarch Uammurabi, who codified
the Babylonian laws, and so were
eompesed at the period of the first
Baby y
Babylonian dynasty.
-.
n y
From these newly found tablets
and previously deciphered refer-
es in the records of Babylon we
TM -NV know that Dilbat was a small
Babyleniarn town en. that great raas-
tetPlece of Illeeolaotaanriaaa elegize-
eerang the Arahtae canal,
"They canal," says the correspon-
dent, "must have kept near to the
great river Euphrates, for it wash-
pr
e
second' time to collie to my rescue the little locket containing her
in the most approved fashion. l• aru treasured portraits, which must
afraid, Ur. Darx:n1ey you will think' have been loosened during AIr, Wil- r' s within the c' r it
.. u n l'of the desc abed as .. w t.in th ity e!
Me, asza eaxtraordluairy person to be Nana as vigoroua laa d lug suburbs, as bounded by the river
+3 etually m need ett,yourasid and
P�
as" l? tan aaaa a es o 4 a
.�the ouii thanwith deepgratitude, cab
� thrid* Viola. � gnot x�oi�al the seta of tltePx land +4a
cheat. , ,and others by till canal. .Aa the
�aUh see locket " �rtrt?cy cried , , . � .
res t t'v f the
roteetion
d s„riot will
;g i,, , ,
R e b.,arilc
you for telling lila. 1�-1
began very slowly; ; ,and ter ai t s yet -
Y unfortunately do not know rp
checkered himself. "Do you Feil w Auld not Katie lost iba:t fear any* -p
,t....�.,„ cssely where Dilbat stolid,
qual; to walking baek1 1 woul'
and fetes as trap, or :soaalcthing D vxiclr Darnley bit his lips
Girt; but I do loot mean to
you here alone." that tiny
walai.quite easily," il^,
,
Nan- r
x lose t
made it so de
a'
mild, iudced, she tea her, whose hand had given it
old self now. Not a -. .
lied of the disagreeable
tures she bad; just had, save
pink waistband was almost
hail by the rough treat--
ent lavished. upon the chatelaine.
"We will wait 'a little, Sit
nothing—eh—eh! 1 thought as that
would` change you a- little," as
Nancy started back with. a' :sudden
exclamation. "Didn't know as we
were pals, did yer ? Come as a sort
of blow, ain't it? Well, it's gos-
pel true, all the same, and you;
knows what to expect for ''aving
"Now, :gamey, he said, very
quietly and determinedly, as her
cheeks cooled slowly, and she won-
dered vaguely why her heart should
beat so fast and, ' nervously now,
when all danger was gone;,"to re-
turn to• this man.. Who was he'?
I seem to remember his face. Why
done me as yon dire, Conae," ob- . would you not let me go after him
served Mr. William, coolly,. "out and punish him, the brute?"
to ".alk.
with the mons I ain't wishful Oh least' do not,let us t
h y,1 P
stay 'ere all day."
Nancy had grown pale as death;
the very mention of Moss'name
had fallen like a black shadow on
the brilliancy of the sunshine'
around. She loathed, she feared
this man, so much, that the mere
thought of him being leagued with
the other blackguard against her
seemed to sap all her courage. She
did not trouble to ask herself what
they could do; she only knew she
feared Thomas Moss as the dove`
fears the eagle, and that this man
had brought him up as a horrible
threat. If she had been less nervous, she
"I will give you the money," she would have seen how foolish it was
said, in faint, low tones, _ "but 1 to think' that these two risen could
have not got it here.` I have not a affeet her, situated as she', was now.
penny with me." If they dared to molest' her, as
"I don't believe you!" he al- William had done this afternoon,
most shouted, "you've got your the matter would soon be settled
purse in your pocket, I know, so by Sir Humphrey and the local
look for myself. No" -as police; but Nancy's mind had gone
Nancy drew back suddenly with a back in'the last few'minutes, to 'a
wild., helpless longing for aid some- certain extent, to the condition it
how or somewhere—"no, as you've was in the old lite.
no money, I'll take this—it u'll do Theri doss' power, had seemed to
just as' well." her illimitable; and so she had; per
His large, coarse hand closed: witted herself to magnify this; and
over the dangling chatelaine with the probable- evils that might arise.
all the costly appendages. . to her through him, until' he was a
Nancy gave a little cry.`' She; veritable nightmare'' to her•when-
prized' this most highly, not only, ever she permitted' herself to think
because Sir Humphrey had given about him."
it to her, but because the only. Darnley saw:her hesitation, and
portraits she possessed of her'" mo- was just a little vexed with her. -
ther and father hung in the little' '_...Sur-ely, you axe knot going to be
locket upon'it. _ �y quixotic enough to' wish this fellow
"No --n0 "' she erIed, eagerly, to go' scot-free 2" Ile said; with a
"do not take that -the money I, shade' of annoyance and impatience
promise. I—oh l" she was checked in, his. voice.
roughly and suddenly; her voice "If 1 like to be quixotic it is my
had been unconsciously raised, and: own affair, Mr. Darnley," Nancy
the coward, fearing. that its clear,' replied, a trifle hotly.
n u i.cal tones might attract at -She was n-ettled at his tone, and
t; ;ntion, covered her mouth with' her nerves and mind :were so un -
his t thea hand; despite her strug- hinged, shed felt it _almost a relief
gges' he' held 'a firm :„grasp; on the to be cross.
watch and other hanging ornaments'. But; _Darnley did not'know that.
and had almost succeeded in jerk -He could not•.see below the surface,
ing it front the slender waistband, and fathom the mental trouble with
err some ' one , ran rapidly for- which slie was struggling, and so
a. <A fist shot out against his' he was hurt with her, and snot • uu-
Hinder, masking hull loose ins naturally.
d, and as Nancy, with a cry of It would have been well. for Nancy
,;:seting to Derrick Darnhy, tire.' if she, had thereand then put the
.r had time to p ck himself to -ay sole ;matter before' Derrick Dain
cr and run away down eh cq fv and solicited his ail.
need lie felt ,,army tempted to dosss-q
tallta'iY,. but?1� lxat Pride and modesty, minmle,l, r a
sts.aii.ect her :from letting this ,xnazi`
about hien, Mr. Darnley,” Nancy
said, earnestly and hurriedly.
That one mention of Thomas
Moss had alarmed her beyond all
description. The thought flashed
through her mind' that if she were
to give the information Darnley'
William into
asked,. and so get W 1.
more trouble, that he would be re-
venged en her in even a, more hor-
rible way than he had just at-
tempted, and that he would be the
'means of putting Thomas Moss
in her life again.
Of course it was foolish of Nancy.
Pik
Fv'
°k1
�g.
4'Tho Arabtu Canal: not only ,st-
ered the soil and eo produced tbo
reps but carried upon it' surface:
e harvests it had 'oreetcd. Thus
• awas the
t a says
xr old text
s
should be prized above .all er of life to Byaa,bylon,' ` Dilbat iws
sou probably the ,greaat southern. ,gr
t.ary far the cal ital, for Hamanura-.
t acre fortunate in having ro- i �"
,, bi, in his long autobiographical pa-
negyric, it to gilt, be said, curtly, neg .ric boasts that he 'extended,
lit not discourteously, the plantations of Dilbat and ac-;
1raney" s blue oyes went suddenly , cumulated corn for Ip.'
to laic face. -Whet had come to him]
A chaapm seemed to strctela between structcd i:t would be difficult to' says.
`°W'hen the"Araahtu was first con -
them and the pleasant, friendly but its benefits to thein people
always to .keep it
did not seem the same man as the
looting of only an hour ago. Be aauaed the kingsaIS4u
, in repair, and vice versa, invaders
Darnley . from whose ha
vainly tried to extract do in/Agin- it as a reliniinaar to starvin out
ary thorn. leo ca s til. y
A. must of tears rose before her r, 1.
The :special deity of Dilbat was
sight, and her lips trembled, but Ip, probably a shortened Felten of
Mr. Darnley did not perceive this., Ninii. and his temple was called
p, r p ,
they were walking slowly along the i i.ibi Amain, Proclaimed of genu.
homeward road, and her sunshade' There was all, city 'wail coeval with
earef t=4 i screened ,her face, while the foundation of the city, and re -
his
head was art d. tau htil * in' �a y'
d c c 1n g 3stored Say Bing einem-Abu, prede
the air, the combined' effect of in- ` cessor of Hammurabi. Tho town
dignetion and something more dis- appears to have possessed three
agreeable and indefinable, harbors or docks and a, :market, and
Be hated ahimself n for doubting ° ole can imagine the busy bum of
her even for an instant" Still, the commerce upon
unpleasant' fact remained that very ITS STREETS AND WHARVES
little was known aboutherpast— xt documents rescued from its
only what she had chosen to tell The doc
then. herself. Was it, then, im-
possible havem
-that she should so e
friend whom she cherished, some
lover? He ground his. teeth, and
at that moment he caught a glimpse
of her face as she lowered her sun-
shade from the hanging boughs of
a tree, and all his doubts went.
"I am afraid you are very tired,"
he' was beginning, but as she turn-
ed to him, radiant to think that his
anger was gone, be got no farther,
but, with a quick smile, which
transfigured his face,_he drew her
hand through laic'arm. "We are a
pair of simpletons, aren't we,
Nancy?" he observed.
(To be continued.)
011
IMI.AIUfILi) LIFE.
"No` more twain." "Joined to-
gether." Mark 10: 6-9.
Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in e edded love;
The oneness of united minces
Is like to that above.
red she
lila of Babylonia in war time daa.niaged.
Before Thy gracious throne
We pour 'our ardent prayer;
And for the future yet u k-io tvn `
We trust Thy tender care.
May 'faith and hope increase
And fervent love abound;
And with the diadem, of peace
May all, our days be crowned.
May we be one in heart
Alike in ease alit] pain;
While fleeting pleasures may de-
part,
May joy and troth remain
And as we 'thus. unite
To tread the perfect w
Upon us may there shine t;.c light
Of' everlasting 'day.
ay we the grace, obtain
With joy ,Thy face, ..o se ;
red `m•ay we With'our Saviour rei,
7'h rough all eternity.
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ruins almost all concern the. sale
or renting of houses and lands and
fields, or the hire and purchase of
cattle and crops, Dilbat being the
centre of a rich agricultural dis-
trict,: The terms employed are'
VQnrnnon to all the Babylonian eit-
ice The ground andthe houses aro;'
, g a u
elcarly dchhrcd by the enumeration
caf neighboring properties and the
navies of their proprietors.
"]+frequently the boundary is a
street, a canal, a bond or barber.
Then, in eases of real estate, fel-
lows a, statennent of value, the
names of vender and purchaser,
and at the end of the bargain, the
deed discloses, comes the oath.
sworn before the god of the city in
tine temple and also an invocation
of the :reigning King. The l)ilbakt:
ri s 1S added a eta e l ein
sc be a `aa .tl ed tar P a g
ere onus of any subsequent dispxate
of the deed upon. the seliere '.For
all he contests eoncerning the pro-
pearty (A. B.) is respousible.' Fin-
ally follow the names of the
'Passes, and often :also of the scribe:
of the tablet, and generally several
signets cif the persons concerned,
"Legally the vender should fa-
y seal the tablet, Inst if lie had
treat a°, signet, then tome or all of
theirs. Pro-
s appliedi
lPa wstaies es
t
l:
� ' also, the tablets
l s .lcrn rk s
lar , c ,
abould have been in duplicate. The
firat was inscribed and baked and
copied; then a cover of soft clay
placed over or, around it, and the.
document re -engrossed upon this
cover from the copy, so that'it
could bo referred to at anytime by
paying the required fee a
THE RECOIW;D OFFICE.'
"In case of dispute as to its aace.
curacy, for an extra sum the outer
envelope was broken and - tempered
with its interior duplicate text;
and the litigant who proved to be
in error in his allegation that the
twoversions were not' identical paid
a. considerable forfeit, and, a new
outer case was placed over the ori-
ginal tablet and reinsoribed. This
procedure is mentioned in the 014
Testament as inquiring of the outer
and -the inner tablet of a deed.
"The fellahin with their picks and
shovels have, however, brc.ken most
of the outer covers of the leiibat
documents. These methods for the
enregisterization of transactions
neceessitating legal formalities to
aro 9' enable them to be eited as `eve-
R 4 , dente' in the law courts, or the mu-
We,
u-
l nisi al tribunal (for in one case, at
qutclily stops caatdhe cures colds.' heats
the throat and lun¢s. - . ae eCatc, least, the Mayor' was the judge)
were similar to those at other con.
temporary neighboring tides, but
they possess their : own peculiar
phraseology, proving that Dilbat.
had his own type of citizen, though
comparatively an insignificant
town. So a flourishing schoel of
serilieis and solicitoras doubtless
troweled the' shady eorridors of itt
temple and the hails of the od'a
tribenee g
'Trail • its nos icrit was but a
reflex of that of Bab lon but the
Babylon,
city's existence was not epbesner-
a al, for it oominenced with the first
regions of the great neighboring
cities' 'kings and endured :cath
THE PERSIAN ERA,
"The majority of the to lets
found often merely reregister les,
p
areas or locations, for inose of the
litigation ivas about boundaries.'
Others, however, ,ire for loans or
]airing, agreements, sine being for a:
period of three month%, eule. Taze.
tum hires to bull from tete great tem-
ple gods of Sippara, Shangash and
Ala for a year. Doubtless the gn"ctat
deities heel a shrine at Dilbat and
a farm for sacrificial cattle and did'
hriviug trade :n stud cattle and
epee also tai sed out e]tari t 3
and agricultural mplenseuts, but
Loans ww'c .uostly in money and,
seed eorn. The interest for the
latter sometimes amounted to ear
per cent,, but it was payable in
°
Mud out of what it provided, and,
if the farmer heat parted le the
previous season with hie res erre elf
seed, because of a specially high; of -
for for it, he conic afford to pay;
such interest to obtain a fresh sup-
Ply.
Soave deeds concern; the Kirin,,,
of haarvesters, and they Wena; often.
registered before the wangagcancntr
matured by the crops ripening.
clause was therefore inserted tl,F o
if the igen contracted for flailed to
appear the farmer could hire others
at the price paid that season by
the king for his own estates, and it"
may be presumed that the person
who had promised to supply the
men rade up the difference if any.
"Such was_ life at Dilbat about
e,000 years before the Christian era,
as revealed by the small clay•tab-
lets that the patient industry of
many intellects have for the love of
soience enabled us to read."
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