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"Its Precepts Are Eternal;" Or , The Practice Of A Freemason's Daughter.
"Letters go best when sealed , " was the imperturbable German ' s rejoinder . " Madam , I thus guarded mine . " " With usi , " persisted the Frau , the featm-es of her face firm as marble , " it is the practice to send letters closed . " " I tell you I did so ; but some meddler has picked off the wax . r
" It is the safest course to seal letters , " persisted the lady . " I'll end this colloquy at once , " murmured Maurice , " bv reseahng my letter . " But , lo . ' the means were wanting : his seals had disappeared .
Now these missing seals bore each and all of them Masonic emblems ; were tokens of personal regard from brethren in the Craft ; and on them Maurice placed high value . No inquiry no search threw light on their sudden disappearance;—sudden because their wondering owner distinctl y remembered having left them on his dressing- table , previous to sallying forth on his visit to Griit .
i- JI Piau Pfeffer Iooked m > immoveably stolid , ' and delivered her sentiments with her accustomed brevity . Mam-ice ' s suggestion that the seals might possibly have been stolen , she met by replying , — " Oh , no ! that cannot ' be . No one has access to your apartment but myself . "
" Then they are lost ?" " Nothing is lost in this house . Nothing ! Everythino- is always forthcoming in God ' s good time . " ° " But my seals—"
Many words , much sin , '" struck in the lady ; " shorten discussion by using a seal of mine ; the wisest course , as in forty minutes from this the post leaves Wien " Maurice mechanicall y adopted his hostess ' s suggestion ; sealed , and posted his letter . But the perplexities of his position haunted him . "All this , " said he , by way of soliloquy he wended his homewards
, as way , "is vastly disagreeable , and inconceivably odd . My letters are tampered with •my seals are stolen . And if the idea were not absurdly extrayag-ant , I should say that my movements are dogged This is the third time this morning that I have lound that villanously ugly fellow , with the scarred face lingering m my wake . He is a government spy , I am thoroughly persuaded . What may all this mean ? " b y VOL . III . p
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
"Its Precepts Are Eternal;" Or , The Practice Of A Freemason's Daughter.
"Letters go best when sealed , " was the imperturbable German ' s rejoinder . " Madam , I thus guarded mine . " " With usi , " persisted the Frau , the featm-es of her face firm as marble , " it is the practice to send letters closed . " " I tell you I did so ; but some meddler has picked off the wax . r
" It is the safest course to seal letters , " persisted the lady . " I'll end this colloquy at once , " murmured Maurice , " bv reseahng my letter . " But , lo . ' the means were wanting : his seals had disappeared .
Now these missing seals bore each and all of them Masonic emblems ; were tokens of personal regard from brethren in the Craft ; and on them Maurice placed high value . No inquiry no search threw light on their sudden disappearance;—sudden because their wondering owner distinctl y remembered having left them on his dressing- table , previous to sallying forth on his visit to Griit .
i- JI Piau Pfeffer Iooked m > immoveably stolid , ' and delivered her sentiments with her accustomed brevity . Mam-ice ' s suggestion that the seals might possibly have been stolen , she met by replying , — " Oh , no ! that cannot ' be . No one has access to your apartment but myself . "
" Then they are lost ?" " Nothing is lost in this house . Nothing ! Everythino- is always forthcoming in God ' s good time . " ° " But my seals—"
Many words , much sin , '" struck in the lady ; " shorten discussion by using a seal of mine ; the wisest course , as in forty minutes from this the post leaves Wien " Maurice mechanicall y adopted his hostess ' s suggestion ; sealed , and posted his letter . But the perplexities of his position haunted him . "All this , " said he , by way of soliloquy he wended his homewards
, as way , "is vastly disagreeable , and inconceivably odd . My letters are tampered with •my seals are stolen . And if the idea were not absurdly extrayag-ant , I should say that my movements are dogged This is the third time this morning that I have lound that villanously ugly fellow , with the scarred face lingering m my wake . He is a government spy , I am thoroughly persuaded . What may all this mean ? " b y VOL . III . p