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Carmen Ariza Novel Chapters
List of most recent chapters published for the Carmen Ariza novel. A total of 194 chapters have been translated and the release date of the last chapter is Apr 02, 2024
Latest Release: Chapter 1 : Carmen Ariza.by Charles Francis Stocking.BOOK 1 Doth this offend you?--the words that I
Carmen Ariza.by Charles Francis Stocking.BOOK 1 Doth this offend you?--the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.--_Jesus._ CARMEN ARIZA CHAPTER 1 The tropical sun mounted the rim of the golden Caribbean, quivered for a moment li
- 194 "And then we fled," continued Ames. "I was rich; I was roaming the world, extending my vast business interests; and I took her to Colombia, where I labored with the politicians in Bogota to grant me timber and cattle concessions. We had a c
- 193 "I have solved my problem! I have proved G.o.d! I have found the Christ!""I knew you would, for he was with you always!""But--oh, you beautiful, beautiful girl!"Then in a little while she gently released herself and went to the door through which sh
- 192 Out in the sunlight once more, Hitt sought to remove the stains from his clothes, meanwhile bidding Don Jorge attend well to his words."You swim, eh?""Yes.""Then do you come to the beach to-night to bathe, down across from the yac
- 191 "And--""He will be shot to-morrow, senor."Hitt thought with desperate rapidity. Then he looked up. "Why do you say he is an ex-priest?" he asked."He has just been excommunicated," replied the man. "Cursed, they
- 190 Now, Willett, have the door of my limousine widened to accommodate this wheel chair. I want a dozen men to insure our privacy, and to keep the way clear. No one not in our confidence must see us depart."Hitt gasped. "But--Carmen--""Goe
- 189 They bowed, and he knelt beside the bed and prayed long and earnestly; prayed that the loving Father who had made man in His image would take pity on the suffering one who lay there, and, if it be His will, spare him for Jesus' sake.He arose from his
- 188 "Lord! Lord! Monsignor, but you are slow! Come to the point quickly!We must go to press within an hour!" wailed Haynerd, shaking the churchman's arm in his excitement."But, what more?" cried Lafelle. "I saw the portrait in th
- 187 "I have been working for G.o.d," she interrupted. Her voice was low and steady, and her eyes shone with a light that men are not wont to see in those of their neighbors. "I have not been working for men. He alone is my employer. And for Him
- 186 Some said that her eyes were raised; that she saw not earthly things; and that a heavenly presence moved beside her. Nor may we lightly set aside these tales; for, after the curtain had fallen upon the wonderful scene about to be enacted, there was not on
- 185 He glanced up at the great man, sitting so calmly before him. Then he thought suddenly of Avon. Then of Carmen."Mr. Ames," he said, "if I enter your employ, it must be with the stipulation that I shall have nothing to do with the Ketchim tr
- 184 Then, his head sunk upon his breast, he fell to wondering if he might not secure a mortgage upon the Beaubien cottage, and turn its occupants into the street. Ah, what a power was money! It was the lever by which he moved the world, and clubbed its dull-w
- 183 "Sure! Doesn't the militia exist for men like Ames? To-day's work at Avon proves it, I think!""Apparently so, Ned," returned Hitt sadly. "And the only possibility of a change in enlightened people is through a better understanding of what is really
- 182 Had the man gone mad? That he had! And in the blood-red haze that hung before his glittering eyes was framed the face of the girl who had spurned him but a few days before. She was the embodiment of love that had crossed his path and stirred up the very q
- 181 "This morning," she finished, "s.h.i.+elded by the One who is both Father and Mother to me.""That One surely ought to love you, Carmen--""He does," she answered softly."Well!" put in Haynerd, torn with anger and fear. "What are we going to do n
- 180 She did not reply at once. Then, so low that he scarcely caught the words, "I--I have been with--a friend."Sidney Ames came puffing into the office at that moment. "h.e.l.lo!" he cried as he saw Carmen. "How does it happen you're out riding with Wil
- 179 "We'll help them, you and I. We'll make things right all round. And Madam Beaubien shall have no further trouble. Nor shall the Express.""Oh, Mr. Ames! Do you really mean it? And--Sidney?""Sidney shall come home--"With a rush the impulsive girl, f
- 178 "I would not!" he replied harshly. Then he repented his tone. "If I had known you were out there," he said more gently, "I'd have sent out and had you dragged in. I--I have wanted something this morning; and now I am sure it was--""Yes," she inte
- 177 Alone sat the man of gold--ah, more alone than even he knew. Alone with his bruised ambitions, his hectored egoism, his watery aims.Alone and plotting the ruin of those who had dared bid him halt in his mad, destroying career. Alone, this high priest of t
- 176 Really, you astonish me! Do you know something about everybody here in Was.h.i.+ngton?"She laughed. "I have learned much here," she said, "about popular government as exemplified by these United States. The knowledge is a little saddening. But it is e
- 175 Carmen remained seriously thoughtful. The doctor went on chatting volubly. "Ames and the President don't seem to be pulling together as well as usual. The President has come out squarely against him now in the matter of the cotton schedule. Ames declare
- 174 "I--I do not see, Mr. Ames, that I can do anything," replied the President meditatively."Well--will you leave the details to us, and do as we tell you then?"the financier pursued, taking another tack.The President hesitated. Then he ra
- 173 She stood close to the huge man, and looked straight up into his face.He remained for a moment motionless, yielding again to that fascination which always held him when in her presence, and of which he could give no account to himself. That slight, girlis
- 172 The President nodded; and the girl went rapidly on. Soon she was deep in the problem presented by Avon.But at the mention of that town, and of its dominating genius, the President seemed to become nervous. At length he raised a hand, as if to end the inte
- 171 When the message had gone, the girl dismissed the subject from her thought, and gave herself up completely to the charm of the glorious morning and her beautiful environment. For some time she wandered aimlessly about the city; then bent her steps again t
- 170 It's a makes.h.i.+ft. But it helps a bit--and I like it."But," he continued more seriously, "there's going to be trouble here.A strike is coming. And it's going to be a bad one. I wish I could convince Mr. Ames.""Ha
- 169 It's an inside room.""And you pay rent--to Mr. Ames--the man whose machines killed your husband and took off your arm--you still pay rent to him, for one little room?""Yes, Miss. He owns these tenements. Why, his company gave me a
- 168 "Dis-a lady, she come to visit," announced Carmen's guide abruptly, pointing a dirty finger at her.The woman's face darkened, and she spoke harshly in a foreign tongue to the little fellow."She say," the boy interpreted, as a
- 167 "The true method of prayer was employed by the early Christians, until the splendid vision of the Christ became obscured and finally lost to the Church by its bargaining with Constantine for a mess of pottage, namely, temporal power. Then began to ri
- 166 "Mr. Hitt pointed out in our last meeting that mortal beings are interpretations in mortal or human mind of the infinite mind, G.o.d, and its ideas. The most perfect human interpretation of G.o.d's greatest idea, Man, was Christ Jesus. The _real
- 165 "And now," resumed Hitt, "she is given to understand that Ames has been obliged by the bank examiner to withdraw his personal notes as security for her deficits, and that the revenue from her estate must be allowed to accrue to the benefit
- 164 The news of his mother's death had come at a time when the boy was wild with delirium, at an hour when Waite, and Hitt, and Carmen stood with him in his room and strove to close their ears against the shrieking of the demon that was tearing him. Hitt
- 163 And then came the divine message that bade her "Know that I am G.o.d!"--that bade her know that responsibility lay not upon her shoulders, but upon the Christ for whom she was now called to witness. To see, or permit the world to see, this mount
- 162 He straightened up, and a sneer curled his lips. "I suppose," he coa.r.s.ely insinuated, "that you think you now have material for an illuminating essay on my conversation.""No," she said gently. "It is too dark to be il
- 161 "So, you see," continued the girl, "that incident is closed--for all time, isn't it?"He did not reply for some moments. Then: "Rather odd, isn't it?" he commented, turning quite away from that subject, and glancing
- 160 "Just so," returned Hitt. "There exist all sorts of real thoughts about G.o.d's ideas. And these are good and eternal. But the human mind makes likewise all sorts of erroneous translations of them. We shall solve our problem of existen
- 159 "My friend," said Hitt calmly, "he fell away from the Church because he could not stagnate longer with her and be happy. Orthodox theology has largely become mere sentimentalism. The average man has a horror of being considered a namby-pamb
- 158 "Certainly not!" replied Haynerd aggressively. "His father is no friend of mine, and--""We _shall_ keep him," calmly interrupted Carmen. "His father is a _very_ good friend of mine."Carlson looked from one to the ot
- 157 "I have found out what news is," Carmen resumed. "It is wholly _a human invention_! It is the published vagaries of the carnal mind. In the yellow journal it is the red-inked, screaming report of the tragedies of sin. I asked Mr. Fallom if
- 156 "And there," commented Carmen, with a dreamy, far-away look, "we have what Padre Jose so long ago spoke of as the 'externalization of thought.' It is the same law which Jesus had in mind when he said, 'As a man thinketh in hi
- 155 "Yes," she said simply."And you, Ned?"Haynerd blinked for a few moments, like an owl in the light. But then, as a comprehension of Hitt's plan dawned upon his waking thought, he straightened up."Buy the Express! Make a real p
- 154 "Then I'll shoot him! I'll--! But we've got the goods on him! Carmen and I saw him bribe Wales! We'll expose him!"Hitt laughed. "Forget all that," he said, laying a hand on the excited man's arm. "Remember
- 153 She paused and waited for the protest which was not voiced."Very well," she said, continuing; "so it is with the sense of touch; I had the thought of touching it, and that thought I saw; I was conscious of it when it became active in my men
- 152 "I think," interposed Doctor Morton at this juncture, "that I can throw some light upon the immaterial character of matter, if I may so put it; for even our physical reasoning throws it entirely into the realm of the mental.""Good
- 151 After a brief explanation to the doctor of the purpose of the meeting, and a short resume of their previous deductions, Father Waite continued the exposition of his subject."The physical universe," he said, "is to human beings a reality. An
- 150 "Father!" Scalding tears of anger and humiliation were streaming down Kathleen's face. "If she remains, I shall go--I shall leave the house--I will not stay under the same roof with the lewd creature!""Very well, then, run al
- 149 "Better remain out here on the balcony," replied the congressman nervously, as he moved toward the railing.Ames laughed and shrugged his enormous shoulders. He understood the man's repugnance fully. But he humored him."You know, Wales,
- 148 "May I ask," interrupted Haynerd, "the probable cost of the supper?""Yes, perhaps you had better mention that item. It will be in the neighborhood of three hundred dollars a plate. House and table decorations, about eight thousand
- 147 "Say," he suddenly exclaimed, as a new thought struck him, "I'd like to have you talk with my friend, Reverend Patterson Moore! Pat and I have barked at each other for many years now, and I'm getting tired.I'd like to s.h.i.+
- 146 He did not reply. But she went on unperturbed. "Now, the human, or carnal, mind is the negative truth of the real mind, G.o.d. It is infinite mind's suppositional opposite. And it imitates the infinite mind, but in a very stupid, blundering way.
- 145 "Referring to--that priest--Jose de Rincon?""Yes, doubtless. And time and again I have heard her say: 'G.o.d is light. Sight depends upon light. Therefore Anita's babe sees.' Old Rosendo's grandson, you know."Hitt n
- 144 "And that," said Carmen, rising, "is my G.o.d."Father Waite nodded significantly to the others, and sat down, leaving the girl facing them, her luminous eyes looking off into unfathomed distances, and her face aglow with spiritual ligh
- 143 "Doubtless. As have been many of the world's most earnest searchers.Yet he enunciated much truth, which we to-day are acknowledging. But, to resume, since Christianity as we know it is based upon the personality of a man, Jesus, we ask: Can the
- 142 "Yes," sadly. "I would have to, were I consistent; for Catholicism is the only true faith, founded upon the revealed word of G.o.d, you know."He smiled pathetically as he looked around at the little group."Now," he continued,
- 141 The Beaubien and Father Waite remained some moments in silence. Then the woman spoke. "I am learning," she said. "She is the light that is guiding me. This little incident which you have just related is but a manifestation of the law of lov
- 140 "H'm! yes. Well, I thank you very much. You think this Diego might have been your father? That is, you can't say positively that he wasn't?""I can't say positively, no. But now I must go. You can come up to the house and
- 139 On Wednesday night Harris arrived from Denver. His arrival was instantly made known to J. Wilton Ames, who, on the morning following, summoned both him and Philip O. Ketchim to his private office. There were present, also, Monsignor Lafelle and Alonzo Hoo
- 138 "I think you are chained--and the fire has been kindled," said the woman in a voice that fell to a whisper."Then your thought is wrong--all wrong! And wrong thought just _can't_ be externalized to me, for I know that 'There shall
- 137 Whatever is good will stand, and needs no defense. Whatever is erroneous must go. And there is no excuse, for salvation is at hand.""Salvation? And your thought regarding that?" he said in a skirmis.h.i.+ng tone."_Let the wicked forsak
- 136 "No," he said, in a scarcely audible voice.A cynical look came into Lafelle's eyes. But he replied affably: "When preachers fall out, the devil falls in. Your reply, Mr. Waite, comes quite consistently from one who has impudently tosse
- 135 "Why, she owns the grandest gold mine in all South America! Think of it!""Bah Jove! I--aw--I never was so attracted to a girl in all me blooming life! You will--a--speak to her, eh? Help me out, ye know.Just a few words, eh? You know what I
- 134 "Well!" cried the impatient girl. "Aren't you going to speak?" And with that she threw her arms about him and kissed him loudly on both cheeks.The man and Miss Wall gave vent to exclamations of astonishment. He colored violently;
- 133 "Monsignor, I close my eyes to all that is unlike G.o.d. He is everything to me. I know nothing but Him and His perfect manifestation."Lafelle sat some moments in silence. The picture which he and the young girl formed was one of rare beauty and
- 132 Monsignor Lafelle found Mrs. Hawley-Crowles and her ward awaiting him when his car drove up at two that afternoon. Carmen had not left the house during the morning, for Elizabeth Wall had telephoned early that a slight indisposition would necessitate post
- 131 "Don't do it!" hastily interposed Mrs. Gannette. "She's going to be dropped. Name's already on the black list. I don't know what Mrs.Hawley-Crowles was thinking of to invite her to-night! Her estate is being handled by A
- 130 "A strong and very liberal-minded woman," returned Lafelle with emphasis. "I trust, as your spiritual adviser, Madam, I may express the hope that you are in no way influenced by her.""Sir!" cried Carmen, who had bounded to he
- 129 "But--she saved me from--from that place," protested the hara.s.sed Carmen. "She was poor and cold--I could see that. Why should I have things that I don't need when others are starving?"Mrs. Hawley-Crowles shook her weary head in
- 128 The man started slightly. This innocent girl little knew that one of the instigators of that b.l.o.o.d.y revolution sat there beside her. Then a new thought flashed into his brain. "What is the full name of this priest?" he suddenly asked."
- 127 "Well, little girl, at last we are alone. Now we can exchange confidences." It was Ames talking. He had, late in the evening, secured seats well hidden behind a ma.s.s of palms, and thither had led Carmen. "What do you think of it all? Quit
- 126 But Carmen sat shrouded in thoughts that were not stimulated by the puppet-show before her. The tenor shrieked out his tender pa.s.sion, and the tubby soprano sank into his inadequate arms with languis.h.i.+ng sighs. Carmen heeded not their stage amours.
- 125 "Aw--deucedly fine show to-night, Miss Carmen," the youth ventured one evening, as he took his accustomed place close to her."The music is always beautiful," the girl responded. "But the play, like most of Grand Opera, is drawn fr
- 124 Lafelle reflected. In his complete absorption he had not noticed the effect of his query upon Ames. "I do not know," he replied slowly."London--Paris--Berlin--no, not there. And yet, it was in Europe, I am sure. Ah, I have it! In the Royal
- 123 CHAPTER 13 The _Cossack_, with its great turbines purring like a sleeping kitten, and its twin screws turning lazily, almost imperceptibly in the dark waters, moved through the frosty night like a cloud brooding over the deep. Yet it was a cloud of tremen
- 122 But that's your end of the business. It's up to you to get around the Interstate Commerce Commission in any way you can, and b.u.t.tress this little monopoly against compet.i.tion and reform-infected legislatures.I don't care what it costs.
- 121 "Bah! Well, do you want that?""No, certainly not," she returned, giving him a glance of admiration."But, to return, Mrs. Hawley-Crowles is going to be received into your wife's set, and you are going to give her a good financ
- 120 "That was when I controlled wheat," said Ames, "and was all tied up.But this is a wholly different proposition. It will be done so quietly and thoroughly that it will all be over and the profits pocketed before the women wake up to what we&
- 119 Gannette, who had been sulking in his chair, roused up. "Speaking of war," he growled, "has Ames, or any of you fellows, got a finger in the muddle in South America? I've got interests down there--concessions and the like--and by--!&qu
- 118 "Stay, Monsignor!" The Beaubien roused up and laid a detaining hand upon his arm. "Our versatile friend, what other projects has she in hand? What is she planning for her young ward?""Why, really, I can not say--beyond the fact th
- 117 "You are cruel," she retorted, affecting an air of injured innocence as she stood before him with downcast eyes. "But--if you--""Madam," said Monsignor, "plainly, what is it that you wish me to do?"The sudden propou
- 116 When the Beaubien, who had become the girl's confidante, learned the story, she laughed till her sides ached. And then her lips set, and her face grew terribly hard, and she muttered, "Fools!" But she smiled again as she gathered the penite
- 115 CHAPTER 9 "Sing it again, dear. I know you are tired, but I want to hear that song just once more. Somehow it seems to bring up thoughts of--of things that might have been." The Beaubien's voice sank to a whisper as she finished.Carmen laug
- 114 Thus it was that Carmen was again s.h.i.+fted a s.p.a.ce on the checkerboard of life, and slept that night once more under the s.p.a.cious roof of the wealthy relict of the late James Hawley-Crowles, on Riverside Drive.CHAPTER 7 As has been said, Carmen&#
- 113 "She wishes to be rid of me, you mean, Doctor?" said the girl, turning and stretching a mental hand to the sinking divine."H'm! well, hardly so--ah--so--""Doctor," said the girl calmly, "I know it, and I wish to go.
- 112 CHAPTER 6 Carmen's rapid transition from the eternal solitudes of Guamoco to the whirring activities of New York was like a plunge into the maelstrom, and left her groping blindly in the effort to adapt herself to the changed order. There was little
- 111 "But," went on Ketchim, "have you seen the morning papers? They are full of the revolution in Colombia. The country is torn wide open, and reports say nothing can be done down there until peace is restored--and that may take a year or two.
- 110 Ketchim quickly a.s.sented. He knew that Ca.s.s had correctly concluded that in no other way was he likely to be reimbursed. And, at best, it was only a hazard, a wild gamble. In fact, it was a last desperate chance. Moreover, stock was always available;
- 109 "Well," pursued Harris, "it'll help some when they learn that you're in one.""Boys," said Ketchim suddenly, quite disregarding the insinuation, "to-morrow is Sunday, and I want you both out to dinner with me, a
- 108 "Er--your brother James received the letter, and I believe he put the check in his pocket."Ketchim gave vent to a snort of rage. "You tell James," he cried, pounding the desk with his fist, "that as president and treasurer of the
- 107 The Sister eyed him keenly. "She attracts and repels me, both," she said. "At times she seems positively uncanny. And she appears to be suffering from religious dementia. Do you not think so?"It was a compromising question, and the pri
- 106 "Och, honey darlin'"--tears started from the old woman's eyes and rolled down her wrinkled cheeks--"honey darlin', call me Katie, just old Katie. Och, Holy Virgin, if I could have had a home, an' a beautiful daughter lik
- 105 "Senora," she began again, after a brief interval, "Padre Jose is a good man, even the human Padre Jose. And he is trying to solve his problem and know G.o.d. And he is trying to know himself, not as other people think they know him, but as
- 104 "G.o.d, no!" cried the woman. "They would murder me!""Then you will stay here until--""No, no! I have friends--others like myself--I will go to them. I--I couldn't stay here--with her," nodding toward the girl.
- 103 "Sure thing!" replied Jude, brightening under the stimulus of her wine. "He owns every house in this block, they say. Got long leases for 'em all. And the rents--suffering Moses! The Madam rolls on the floor and cusses for a week strai
- 102 For a moment she stood reflecting. Then apprehension began to steal over her. She went hastily, instinctively, to a window and raised the curtain. There were iron bars in front of it! She remembered suddenly that prison windows were like that. She hurried
- 101 The blanket of wet fog which had hung over the harbor with such exasperating tenacity lifted suddenly, late in the raw fall afternoon, and revealed to the wondering eyes of the girl who stood alone at the rail of the _Joachim_ a confusion of mountainous s
- 100 Jose, the shadow of his former self, clung pitiably to Rosendo's hand, imploring the constant repet.i.tion of the old man's narrative. Then came Juan, flying to the door. He had seen and talked with the returned _cargadores_. The girl had not co
- 99 "For, instead of not believing anything, you firmly believe in the presence and power of evil. It is just those very people who boast that they do not believe in anything who believe most thoroughly in evil and its omnipotence and omnipresence."
- 98 "Lord Harry!" e.j.a.c.u.l.a.t.ed Harris, pondering the cryptical remark, "you surely are a queer little dud!"But the girl turned from him to Rosendo. He understood her. Nor would she permit the old man to leave her until, late that nig
- 97 What was it that she had said to him that day, long gone, when Diego claimed her as his child? Ah, yes: "Don't feel badly, Padre dear. His thoughts have only the minus sign--and that means nothing, you know."And later, many weeks later: &qu
- 96 The girl did not speak. But her breath came more quickly, and her hand closed more tightly about his."Dearest one," he murmured, bending over the brown curls, "it is G.o.d's way, I guess. Perhaps in the years which I have spent here wi
- 95 "And she will go to the States with us! Oh, padre!" cried the girl, bounding up and down with joy.Jose turned and went quickly into his own house. With grim determination he drew the battered haircloth trunk from beneath his bed and began to thr