The times., 1901-03-31

! ing, no matter TO whom it was addressed,
and 80 in course of time he had no more
| letters TO tear up, and the parting was
Then the old man died and Godfrey his
| son reigned in his stead. And Cleserest
| bFeathed more peacefully and lived in
| hopes OF seeing master Charles once
| more. For they all loved him dearly
| from old Mrs. Dane, the housekeeper. TO
! Old Jezcbel the mother of goats VINO for
! three years had rooted doefully in odd
| corners OF the stables in search Of him.
| and still Tuminated with fixed. CLASSY
! stare ard SloW-mOVing Jaws on his sad
detection. For JeZebel looked with doubt
! ara suspicion on all the world. including
| her own kids after they had attained a
| certain age; but for one tall bright t-faced
! young man whom she had known from
I his ana her youth she had a strange af-
| fection which even three years had nor
/ safiiced TO wipe out.
Brother Geotf did his best to right the
/ wrong. lie advertised through the fami-
/ ~ lawyer, IN the London papers, but he
might as well have saved his ronnez- for
neither Charles Cleserest nor his wife
/ was reading papers lie, because he was
! our IN the SouGdn with his regiment and
! a broken heart. She, because she was
! i}!hg peacefully under a smooth green
mound in quiet Hampshire churchrar rd
AND the sturdy. blue-eyed boy whose
| coming At such cost had crushed his
father life, was out az nurse with the
l@hdiady OF the farm near Christchurch
WHere Charles ana Margaret Sannox-
for he had cast off the old ma ne with tho
old life and had taken the name of her he
loved more than anything on earth
we're stopping at the time of their sons
birth. They had had a happy year to-
/ Efther-,llte at it's simplest and best trou-
| bied only D$ thoughts Of the seua ration
from nome and those they loved
! Then tho end came. swift ana
sudden. just as life seemed frightened TO
Us fullest And when all was over. and
1hdries heaft was buried in Christ
I Church yard-sO that for the time being
there was no heart left for the Growing
blue-eyed boy, who seemed to him TO ex-
UT IN Inc mischief he had wrought-he
I turned INTO cash everything that was left
1 him, save MargaTet's $ wedding ring maid
lof tharles Juniors board and lodging
Tor the next two years left with tbe
farm wife a sealed euveloUe 10 bp 0nerad
1T case ol his own death, and enlisted in
the Iwcniy Lancers Eighteen
honihs mo- later he was in Egypt, and when
the iShllpg came at last he fought as
rlcn 90 tight when the ties have ali been
I snapped and life is less than nothing sn
| IErh- lie got soreiy damaged, and found
cause Tor regret in that the damage was
Only partial and landed him IN NetI,-y in
stead OF IN the shallow trench at Oodur-
man he would have preferred rem iin in
Egypt as permanent addition ia tb,
country. Discharged at Iast-clIred-he
went over to Christchurch TO Ioo, at his
BOY ana found him such a beauty that
his heart shook Oft itR sickness and ,y0ln
to its responsibilities.
Charles Junior adopted the big o,Iict
bfoWn-Ldced man AT once and delighted
m him exceedingly. They stopped for q
i"fthlSht AT The farm 70 complete the
cure, ana then IL behooved them 10
hnd some means Of livelihood He turned
10 London, as ii matter of course ana du-
~ arrived there early IN November with
as splendid tWo-year-old boy as the
wnolc Of England could show with re-
sected leg which untitled him for any
very active employment, wounded lung
which gave him pause now and again
aud Il pension OF nothing . day.
This part of Charles Clescrest's & story is
:" very commonplace that there is 40
need 10 enlarge upon it, He learned many
things which he never forgot II,. dill
gently answered many advert iseInents-
PERSON, as rule, in order to save tn.
poStags-and thereby came to the kplv-I-
"dg" that there are great many more
people seeking places in this word than
there are places wanting persons He
learned, too, that University education
without practical experience ia any ypc-
Clal line counts for less than hing
and thai, 10 the mind OF plain business
man, military service units one who has
b.ed for his country or the ordinary
duties Of civilized life Il was heart
breaking work. but th, idr:s Of aipIytn.
for assistance at honeywell. yes, II oc-
CURED 10 him certainly. BGt only to he
kicked out instantly. He would sooner
die. GlcScrcsts break but never bend He
had done his duty In writing home
after lls marriage. ana no single word
had he or Margaret received in rauIv f1
their letters. We know why. They do
sired no communication with him So l,e
Il. Unfortunately, he never sci eyes on
any single one of the lawyers advertise
ments in the Times and Morning
Post" lie had very soon found that The
most likely papers Tor advertisements
within his compass were the Chronicle
ana Telegraph" and even in them he
wasted no time on the personal columns
The thought OF a commissaire's uniform
hogan 10 haunt his dreams like a night
mare. Sooner drive "A bus or q cab "a
bus from choice as being less speculative.