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CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1903.
with anything so modern as a Jen!oc?
husband. Ilcrs was dawning on her i i
that light. She could not flatter hers if
that the suspicious vigilance of her
matrimonial lord was the distorted ex
pression of a too engrossed affection.
She realized It as the selfish greed for
absolute domination which Is compati
ble with the narrowest of natures.
Compared to this degrading Jealousy,
which she quickly came to rate as ma
lignant. her husband's tendency to
stimulants, which also cropped out dur
ing this stay In Cairo, seemed almost
forgivable. Yet drink produced in Lu
clen Bonvale that dry, insolent Irrita
bility which is one of its unpieasantest
effects.
As Clarice Bonvale's eager young
soul rebelled under the scourge of this
double revelation a dull mist seemed
to obscure the effulgent radiance of the
•rient, and an iron thorn pricked
through its sensuous indolence. She
was a soft, innocent, Ignorant young
thing, capable of heaven only knew
what possibilities. Until now rose
leaves had strewn her way through
life, and homage to her wonderful
beauty had been a stimulating incense
to her brain if not to her heart She
had always had her mother hitherto.
Now she had only her husband. That
she should so phrase it to herself filled
her with a childlike shrinking and de
spair. Never before had her soul known
this helpless loneliness. It Is a deso
lating thing for a proud, ardent young
wife to learn that she has married a
stranger who, as her husband, is rapid
ly becoming n bereaving acquaintance.
There was a dumb cry in her heart
for some touch of human sympathy,
for the soothing support which affec
tion exhales. This poignant Isolation
was enhanced by her surroundings.
The gayety of the hotel people; the su
perficial splendor, almost nakedness, of
the orient's color; the melancholy of the
tombs, mournful memorials of a hu
man kind associated with so remote a
past as to be merged In the mythical;
the stolid insensibility of the sitting fig
ures in the many shops of the great
bazaar, from which drifted perfumes
"IT WAS"UKAU'I
naif —to summarily eject the god who
proved a faithful tenant and to bewail
him if he did otherwise!
Brought in by King Katechos nearly
5,000 years before Christ, the last of
the Apis bulls had passed out of Egypt
to be brought to the Emperor Julian
11. A. I). 3f>2. Yet through the centu
ries their preserved exuvite bad held
stately possession of the Serapeum—
were waiting there for her to come
where they held their silent court.
So much lavished 011 a beast of the
field, and she, made in the likeness of
God, looked in vain for sympathy,
some touch of human interest that
might ease her aching heart! What a
mockery! This bull, flower of the herd,
by force of his lordly markings raised
to the pinnacle of a nation's adoration!
She whom beauty had as sharply sepa
rated from the others of her sex had
gained by this gift a husband who*e
highest form of regard was an intoler
able Jealousy, a life partner who was
already numbing the eager vitality of
her girl's heart and making it cry out
to Itself in the yearning of Its loneli
ness. Why should the heart spontane
ously put forth tendrils if there was
naught which they might grasp for
support, no other heart to which they
could cling, strengthening and strength
ened by the preordained clasp?
Such was the leaven of thought In
the hungering soul of Clarice Bonvale
as she sailed up the ten miles of river
that lay between Cairo and Memphis
on the pilgrimage to the tomb of the
Apis bulls. The trip should have been
an enchanting one. Streaming sun
shine, vivid color and air that would
have rejoiced spring buds lent sweet
ness to the Egyptian day. But the mill
of her heart was grinding tine its grist
of bitterness. In the ne«r foreground
of every view, even the long vista of
existence, stood a human being whose
shadow fell upon her soul with blight
ing chill.
They landed at Sakkarah and made
the short transit to the tombs on don
keys. Clarice smiled faintly as she felt
that the kindliest emotion awakened In
her by this land of Ptolemies and the
resplendent Cleopatra was due to this
same small beast of burden—strong, di
minutive, with demure relish of Its
gorgeous trappings.
The tombs of the Apis bulls were as
depressing as she liad Imagined. Out
id the warm glow, tlio acrid smell, the
jcurrylng flight of Iwts and tlx- smoky
Ohio «>f the torches in these subterra
nean chain hers.
"What Is an Apis bull? And why
should it have a tomb?" s!k> asked cu
riously.
"Oh. when they founil a bull with
certain markings the priests made the
people think Osiris had gone into him,
and they adored the beast," replied
Bonvale, quite content with this de
gree of erudition on the subject.
Mrs. Bonvale informed herself some
what more about the Apis bulls. If
she was going to the Serapeum, the
necropolis of defunct bovlnes at Mem
phis, she chose to know what claim
this sacrosanct herd could have on the
attention of an intelligent New Eng
land girl of today. She would hardly
have been a true product of her envi
ronment had she regarded with nught
but quiet disdain the solemn mockery
of worship which lay In adoring the
benevolent Osiris reincarnated in a
bull, 110 matter what its erotic mark
ings. Yet ages before Christ had come
to flood the chambers of the mind
with his mystic light the early kings of
Egypt had fostered the recollection of
their highest divinity by presenting to
the somber Egyptians "hlni who slept
at I'hlla?," renascent In a lordly bull.
Her Imagination at least found a;s
thetic delight in picturing the majestic
creature with Its lustrous, silky hide;
tho symbolic triangle standing white
npon its brow, the hair of its back
swirling to simulate an eagle, the
snowy crescent flashing on its stalwart
flank and beneath its pink tongue the
knot which fancy called the mark of
the scarab, the sacred Insect of Ptah.
What a destiny for a bull—to be
taken from the common herd and in
stalled as a god, cared for with infinite
attention during life and after death
embalmed at enormous expense and
enshrined in a costly sarcophagus! If
the revered animal rounded a quarter
of a century it was imposingly killed.
If death came to it before that time all
Egypt mourned, and sorrow settled on
the land like a pall. So charmingly
strangely sensuous, but poorly invigo
rating; even the thin, penetrating cry
of the muezzins, perched like human
storks on the slender minarets and in
citing the Moslem to mechanical devo
tions with their reiterated "Alia Akbar,
Alia Akbar! La Allah il Allah! Ileyya
alasalhfh!" the narrow, dirty alleys, the
garish l'aris suggestiveness in so much
of the khedlve's capital—all seemed to
drain her heart and leave in it a heav
ier burden of aching void.
The same numbing undercurrent of
sadness ran through their excursions to
the excavations, trips 011 the oily calm
or sluggishly rallied Nile, drives to Ge
zireli, the pyramids, sphinxes, columns
or what not.
Some one has said: "The east is a
land of mj stery. If one cares for it at
all one loves it. There is 110 half way.
If one does not love it one really hates
it and all its ways." Clarice Bonvale
did not love it. She saw it all with her
husband. She had come to feel him a
disturbing figure in the foreground of
every scene, even the widely extending
one of life.
"Those ranges of boats with their
curved yards make me think of great
dry sedges bent by the wind, and those
tall, tufted palms look like gigantic
feather dusters stuck in the sand," she
remarked oneo to Bonvale, with a short
/ittle laugh. They were sailing 011 the
Nile, the yellow Libyan hills In the dis
tance.
The quick wrinkle came Into his
smooth forehead, and there was the
disgusted compression of his lips.
"You ought to learn to tnke things
as you find them," he said, with an ir
ritated, monitory air.
The girl's month quivered to a slight,
prond smile, but formed no answer.
She had already begun to take Lucien
Bonvale as she found him, but her re
sentment at baring to do so was not
therefore the le«s.
She was looking forward with sharp
desire to the hour of their departure.
If she fell in nnprotestingly with Mr.
Bonvale's proposition togo here or
there it was with the relieving sense
that one more reason for remaining
would be exhausted, hi this spirit she
assented to his wish to "do" the torn ha
of the Apia bulls. She hated tomt.s
more than nnyt'-Ing—flrst been*im> «dn»
Was tO'.> :i!!w not to detest th" th'iught
of death, and th'vi b«ennse oath-
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Silk Handkerchiefs, White and Fancy Shirts, |f
Knit Gloves, Linen Collars and Cuffs, ||
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Kid Gloves, Silk Mufflers, ||
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