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The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1905-02-23

If your wife objects to your sub
scribing for The Independent take
her in on the deal by including an or
de- for the Woman's Home Companion
at the clubbing rate of LEO for the two.
1t will satisfy her and no further OBJ
jections will be heard.
Indiana tribuÌˆne. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1878-1907, 1905-01-26
Ks StrabIen sur MuffinSmns Der
Ncrlen.

W6brenb marl friiber %senOtbist mar,
iebe sinselne Mufdel gu Dffnen, seniiet
jebt cine Our9leu9tuns NIT @Ontaen=
Strablen, um Die perlenbaltisen Mu=
ideln bon ben tduben Stii6So gu urz
terf9eiben. elm 8erfabren. bas sesen>
fpGrtig in Genlpn, @orberinbien, bereits
nit beitem @rfolse auseefibrt tpirb.
Die 0ortbeile bieier Neuerung finb
mannisfader Dirt. 3unGdft pirb au<
berorbsntlih piel 3eit eefpart. 3Deis
tens pirb Der 8erfpiiftung Der Perlen~
bGnfe, an Der obnebin fdpn genus ats
bere 5oftoren, pie 5einbe aug benz
Sbierrei9e unb bic 8erfanbung bes
Meerbpbens, tbGtis finb, porsebeust,
benin bic als unfru9tbar ~erfannten
Mu5Geln perben unperfebrt pieber
in's Wafer auriidseseben, 5a ibre Mbs
tObtune. lebisli6 rm bas Siemlih
tpertblOie perlmutter 81 sefpinnen, fid
ni9t berlobnt. gnbli9 fann man bic
jenigen Muf9eln, in benen man mittelft
3<@trablen feline, fir ben 9anbel mod
ni6t per%tpertbbare Perlen p%orfinbet,
unter eeeianeten 9ebineungen 10 lange
fphIerpiren, bis bic in ibnen entbaltenen
perlbilounsen Die nOtbise @rDbe ers
reiht baben.
Indiana tribuÌˆne. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1878-1907, 1905-01-26

0ufHihe 6~abmenhaAtiee eeIameten uness
bineert tiber ote 8rcuse.

/ gu ben aablrei6ea ruffiden Oefer=
teuren. Die id essenpdrtis in Wien
~aufbalten. limb fiiralih brei neue ees
tommen, Die mebr au eradblen baben
als ibre unberen @enoHen. sic tparen
i'm 2eferpezR eeiment Maitop Ger. 249,
bas gu Der 63. Reierbe= Snfanteriebriz
gabe Statpropol bes 2. faufaiiden Mrs
meetorps Stills seb0rt. Das Regiment
cling am Is. Nusuit b. S. bon Stap>
roppl i'm &aufafus na9 benz fernen
Often ab unb na9 elmer GeiIe bon SO
Sasen lanste es "a Werif nOrblia BON
Mufben an, no es ~auspaaaonirt
purbe unb Quartisre beSpg. Oie Hube
bauerte nidt lanee; am fediten Sage
erbielt bas &egiment ben 8efebl. UNI
brei ubr Morsens in Die 9efe9tsfront
Dpr5uriiden-es fanben eben bic Hiid<
Sugssefe9te o 2~iaopons ftatt. 'MebS
rere Stunben porber beiertirte nun cine
ean5e Selbtpa6e, beitebenb aus einem
unteroffi5ier unb 10 Mann; brei bon
ibnen-barunter aud Der 1tnteroffiaier
-tpeilen jebt in @ien. sic beperfs
fte1isten ibre 6lu9t in febr einfader
Weiie: in boiler Uniform marf6irten
fie, benz Stanbplabe ihrer Sruppe auss
pei9enb, cine ldngsre Strsde na1
Norben auriid unb beitiegen bann in
elmer CHARACTERIZATION ben nG9ften. in
Der Ridtung naa gbarbin sebenben
3us. Niemanb fiimmerte ii9 um fie
unb audi i'm fpGteren 8erlaufe ibrer
&eiie fam es nun ielteit Dor, bab fe
inquirirt ipurben, tper fie fsien. Ser
nnteroffisier erflGrte bann s~epObnlitb,
er babe ben 8efebl, propiant 81 requiz
riren, mas mar ibm regelmGbig
glaubte; um Sabrlesitimationen muir
ben Tie niemals sefrast. Sin ein5iees
Mal gerietben ie in 9efabr, ba iih Elm
@enbarmeriepoitsnS Sommanbant nil
fensburftieer 5etste ala es feline Sol
lesen setpefen tparen; einige Rubel, bic
ibm in bic 9anb eebriidt nurben, be-
pirften, bab er niat mebr neusieris
mar. SSn einisen Stdbten fanben bic
Oefsrteure Die nnterftiibuns gebeimer
&omttes. bic fe bon ibrer 4ntunft Su
beritdnbigen gepubt batten. unb 10
lansten fe nod elmer Sabrt bon So
Sasen in Warf9au an. Sprt Sosen
fie Die Uniform aus; ein &omite per<
fab fie nit gipilfleibern unb nun sers
ftreuten fie fid. Der llnteroffi5ier unb
5pei feiner 2eute nsnbeten ii9 on Die
preubif9e @ren5e, bic iie Obne S4pie>
risfeit iiberf9ritten, benn bic ruffif6e
@renspade lieb tie sesen elm @ntselt
bon finf @ubel per Mann rubig pafs
iiren.
Indiana tribuÌˆne. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1878-1907, 1905-01-26

0as eibsenDfii9e itatiitif9e 8ureau
bat Die 3abl ~berienigen Ginpobner Der
S9tpeio feitseitent, bic am 1. DECEMBER
1900 mebr als 100 Sabre alt iparen.
Oana9 baben am 1. DECEMBER 1900
563 perfonen eelebt. bic iiber 90 Sabre
alt tparen, bic dlteite mar 1899 sebos
rem. 8pn ben i'm 2aufe bes berflofes
men Sabres perifOrbenen alter 2eute
baben bier bas bunbertfte Sabr errei6t.
bic dltefie, cine 5rau in Manis, ipGr
1O2 Sabre alt seiporben. @on ben 563
perfonen. bic 1900 go Sabre alt pos
rem, leben nod 81 Monner nnb SO
6rousn. arei Srauen bdrunter finb
iiber 100 Sabre alt, Die cine. 5rau She
refe 8ertinaeMIberti IN Mairengo (Sef>
fin), lit seboren ben 3. Mai 1900. mifS
bin 1O4 Sabre aft, bic anbere. Gron
Munaineers@drtler IN 8ciel, lit am
IA. Suli porisen Sabres 100 Sabre alt
Qetpprben.
Indiana tribuÌˆne. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1878-1907, 1905-01-26

Weiter 6lue. Sine err
f9Opfte 8rieftaube, DeIhe an einem
SuBe cine fleine Msfiinsplatte nit
Der Snf4rift 81. 6. 8. 1896"
bate, purbe in Dolsebile. 81. g., &c.
funben. Mbolf 6. 9arn, elm Sauben>
freunb. pobnte biz por einem Sabre
in 9olseDiae unb 5og bann nu4 benz
neuer Oolgebile in Siio=a alifornien.
pobin er feline 8rieftauben mitnabm.
Man slaubt, bab bic Saube aus ieiner
Gludt lit unb mad ibrer altel 9eimatb
auridfebrte. Sold Elm Slug tit je>
bod Biz iebt nod niat b~asemefen.
Indiana tribuÌˆne. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1878-1907, 1905-01-26
90

Orei5ebniGbri OoI=
metfaerin. Sin 13jGbriges MGbz
den pirb in 2onbon fat In jsber Wohe
als Oolmetfher gu @eridtsfibungen
heranseaosen. sic lit in Der Sbemie>
itabt bic ein5ige perfon, bic in 5dllen
belfen tann, mo 9itauer au pernebmen
finb, bat aber au4 mebrfa9 por am
bern 9olmetfhern ben @pr5us erbalz
ten, ipenn es fid UNI bic @ernebmuns
bon polen banbelt. Sbr 2itauifd
ltrnte lie bon ibren litauifden gltern,
unb Polnifd mar fo5ufasen ibre Cam
besfprade. Sabei fpridt bic &leire.
obsleid lie erft tpenise Sabre in Gns=
lamb 1T, bas gnslif6e 10 poltommen
rein, baB ieber Tie fir cine Gnsldnberin
bdlt. sShr Batter IdBt lie our tpeiteren
M~usbiIbung ibres Spra9tolents nod
cine beutfde S&ule IN 2onbon be-
funen.
Indiana tribuÌˆne. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1878-1907, 1905-01-26
Wortiebuns folst)

Obj in Der 3abl bon
runb 100000, BADEN i'm 8erlinsr
4fplperein pGbrenb feines 3~6jdbrigen
8eftebens nit einem 4oitenauffponb
BON etpa 100000 Mart untertnnft
sefunben.
Indiana tribuÌˆne. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1878-1907, 1905-01-26

Der BE fbe3abIte 3D.
tenpoen biirfte Der bes Wefens
gers am &analeibofe in 2onbon fem.
Die SteIe lit nit einem Sabressebalt
bon EGO (f1 aIeid $4.86) botirt.
The San Francisco call., 1905-05-21

individual and having seen more or
less of the world here and there he
wasn't at all taken in by Johns polite
talk about saving his brother from the
evil one. John put a good face on the
matter land informed Reginald that he
considered a knowledge of the other
side of life as an essential part of
liberal education; 1t didn't seem to
bother him at all when Reginald de-
manded to know why he considered
him a competent instructor In the
ways Of life on the other side of So
ciety. What do you take me for"
inquired Reginald in cutting accents.
"an amateur guide to Chinatown or a
plain clothes man In disguise? Can
your feeble intellect grasp the idea
that / don't know any more about the
ways of sin--that is, real, dyed in the
wool sin-than you do? If you think
I'm going to have any scion of the
Association for the Termination of the
Young Men of America grabbing me
by the coat tails every time fall by
the wayside for quiet game of pool
or sit into an inoffensive seance OF
penny ante with a scent limit. you're
distinctly barking up the wrong tree.
Back to the f1reside for yours. When
! need guardian I'll hire one from a,
The San Francisco call., 1905-05-21
CHAPTER LXIII.
The Great Silence.

Blaquiere stood beside Teresa in
the Windowed chamber which had
been set apart for her, overlooking
the courtyard.
All in that Grecian port knew of her
love and the purpose that had upheld
her in her journey. To the forlorn
town her wordless grief seemed
tender intimate token of loss still
but half comprehended. 1t had sur
rounded her with an unvarying
thoughtfulness that had fallen gently
across her anguish: She had listened
to the muffled rumble of cannon that
the wind brought across the marshes
from the stronghold of Patras, where
the Turks rejoiced. She had seen the
palled bier. in the midst of Gordon's
own brigade, borne on the shoulders
of the officers of his corps to the Greek
Church to lie in state beside the re-
mains of Botzaris-had seen it borne
back to it's place amid the wild
mourning of half-ciyilized tribesmen
and the sorrow of an army.
The man she had loved had carried
into the Great Silence a peoples wor-
ship and nations tears. Now as she
looked out across the massed troops
with arms at rest-across the crowded
docks and ripping shadows to
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"a -NCE upon time there were two
1 brothers more or less related in
blood, but not in anything else.
The eldest, who rejoiced in the
euphonious cognomen of Reginald, was
everything that his name would have
prepared you not to expect. The psy-
chology of names is too deep a subject
for my feeble intellect to penetrate at
this stage of the game. but IL I only
had time to go into it properly, say
an hour and half some afternoon. /
am sure that could discover profound
and far-reaching truths OF tremendous
Importance to the human race. AT any
rate, it is very peculiar state of af-
fairs that no one should ever expect
anything but sugar coated perfection
from a young gentleman struggling on
ward and upward bearing the name of
Reginald. Personally / am of the opin-
ion that If my sponsors in baptism
had inflicted any such indignity on me
/ should have lived only to get even
with them, If had to start a magazine
and expose them in order to satisfy my
The San Francisco call., 1905-05-21

ladies' seminary who can take real
care of me and see that I don't get
run down by an automobile or inture
my mind by reading too much exciting
literature
But John was not to be shaken.
Far back in the innermost recesses Of
his alleged mind he was maturing a.
scheme. and Reginald's assistance was
necessary to its proper working out.
Therefore he made that soft answer
which is properly supposed to take the
keen edge off righteous Indignation.
All that he asked was that he might
be allowed to accompany his dear
brother and see that no serious harm
befeIl him.
1t didn't take Reginald more than
three nights to discover Johns little
plot. The real secret at the bottom of
his sudden interest in his brothers
welfare was that he had grown weary
of the life of peace and order and good
work that he had been leading and
was determined to do a little busticating
on his own hook The discovery so
shocked Reginlad that he reformed on
the spot and went straight back home
to take his brothers place by the FAM
lily hearth.
copyright. 1905. by Albert Britt.)
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thirst for revenge.
However, as I remarked some time
ago, Reginald had a brother. This
brothers name was John. Now if there
is one name in all this world of care
which is calculated to arouse confidence
and childlike trust in the honesty
and intelligence of the wearer of 1t.
it is John. Even Theodore is no better
than fair second with John. and Alton
is hopelessly lost in the dust.
AS Reginald and John grew to man
hood it was clearly discerned by their
parents and admiring friends that the
former was destined to contribute ma
terially to the gayety of the town, es-
pecially around midnight. and would
probably add largely to the stock OF
carmine In which the community was
shrouded for a good part of the year.
On the other hand, and even farther
away than that, there was John. John
was undeniably designed by nature to
be a comfort to his parents and q prop
to their declining years. Every single
night found him planted close beside
the family hearth reading Macaulay or
the North American Review. He never
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stayed out after 10 unless the executive
committee of the Young Mems Christ.
ian Association sat unusually long in
extra session, debating the advisability
of serving coffee or cocoa at the next
sociable. Take it all In in all. John
was everything that a son should be.
Time flowed along as 1t has been in
the habit of doing for 10 these many
years and Reginald and John pursued
their customary vocations and avoca-
tions with varying degrees of assiduity
and success. His parents did not know
it, but John had been looking with q
brotherly eye upon the ways of sin In
which the feet Of Reginald were stray
ing, and taking counsel with himself
as to how he might best persuade them
therefrom. The result Of these careful
cogitations was an announcement one
evening thath he intended to sally forth
with Reginald and/see If he couldn't
win him from his evil courses by de-
grees Reginald didn't seem particu-
larly excited over the prospect OF be-
ing coaxed into righteousness. but he
couldn't very well make kick in the
presence of the old folks.
As soon as they were out Of sight Of
the house he demanded to know what
was up. Being naturally a suspicious
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the sea. where two ships rode
the swells side by side, she
hugged this thought closer and closer
to her heart. One of these vessels had
borne her hither and was to take her
back to Italy. The other. a ship-of-
the-line, had brought the man who
stood beside her, with the first INSTALL
ment of the English loan. 1t was to
bear to an English sepulture the body
of the exile to whom his country had
denied a living home. Both vessels
were to weigh with the evening tide.
Blaquiere. looking at the white face
that gazed seaward, remembered
another day when he had heard her
singing to her harp from a dusky gar
den. He knew that her song would
never again fall with such a cadence
At length he spoke, looking down on
the soldiery and the people that waited
the passing to the water-side of the
last cortege.
II wonder If he sees-if he knows. as
/ know, Contessa, what the part he
acted here shall have done for Greece?
In his death faction has died. and the
enmities of its chiefs will be buried
with him forever"
Her eyes turned to the sky. reddening
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now to sunset 'I think he knows"
she answered softly.
Padre Somalian's voice behind them
intervened I'VE must go aboard pres
emily, my daughter.
She turned, and as the friar came and
stood looking down beside Blaouiere.
passed out and crossed the hall to the
room wherein lay her dead.
She approached the bier-a rude
chest of wood upon rough trestles. q
black mantle serving for pail. At its
head, laid on the folds of Greek
flag, were sword and a simple wreath
of laurel. A dull roar shook the air
outside--the minVte-gun from the
grand battery firing a last salute-and
a beam Of fading sunlight glanced
through the window and turned to a
fiery globe a glittering helmet on the
wall
Gently, as though sleeping child lay
beneath it, she withdrew the pail and
white shroud from the stainless face.
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the Turk In the death OF the ar
chistrategos who had so loved her
cause. the chieftains put aside quarrels
and buried private ambitions-an save
one. In the stone chamber at Misso-
longhi wherein that shrouded form had
lain, the Suliote chiefs swore fealty to
Mavrocordato and the constitutional
government as they had done to George
Gordon.
Another had visited that chamber be-
fore them. This was a dark bearded
man in Suliote dress, who entered it
unobserved while the body of the man
he had so hated lay in state in the
Greek church. Trevanion forced the
sealed door of the closet and examined
the papers it contained. When he took
horse for Athens. he bore with him
whatever of correspondence and memo
= randa might be fuel for the conspiracy
of Ulysses-and roll Of manuscript.
the completion of Don Juan" which
he tore to shreds and scattered to the
four winds on a fiat rock above a
deep pool a mile from the town. He
found Ulysses a fugitive. deserted by
his faction, and followed him to his
last stronghold, cavern in Mount
ParnasSuS.
But fast as Trevanion went. one went
as fast. This was young Greek who
had ridden from Salona to Mis-
solonghi with one Lambro. primate OF
Argos. Beneath the beard and Suliote
attire he recognized Trevanion. and his
brain leaped to fire with the memory
of a twin sister and the fearful fate OF
the sack to which she had once been
abandoned. From' an ambush below
the entrance of Ulysses cave. he shot
his enemy through the heart.
On the day Trevanion's sullen career
was ended, along the same highway
which Gordon had traversed when he
rode to Newstead on that first black
homecoming, a single carriage fol-
lowed leadep casket from London to
NottinghamShire.
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bed-a curling lock of baby's hair and
a worn fragment of paper on which
was written prayer. She understood,
and, lifting them, laid them against
his lips.
His eyes smiled once into hers and
his face turned wholly to her, against
her breast.
Now" he whispered. Il shall go
to sleep"
A piteous cry burst from Teresa S
heart as the friar leaned forward.
But there was no answer. George
Gordon's eternal pilgrimage had be-
gun.
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She looked at it with an infinite yearn-
1ng, while outside the minute-gun
doomed and the great bell of the Greek
church tolled slowly. Blaauiere's words
We're in her mind.
DO you know, my darling?" she
whispered. DO you know that Greece
lives because my heart is dead?'
She took from her bosom the curl
OF fiaxen hair and the fragment of pa
per that had fallen from his chilling
fingers and put them in his breast.
Then STOPPING, she touched in one last
kiss the unanswering marble of his
lips.
At the threshold she looked back The
golden glimmer from the helmet fell
across the face beneath 1t with an un-
earthly radiance. A touch of woman's 8
pride came to her-the pride that sits
upon a broken heart.
How beautiful he was!" she said In
low voice. 'Oh. God! How beautiful
he Was!"
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CHAPTER LxIv.

"Of Him. Whom She Denied a Home,
the Grave"
Greece was nevermore a yassal OF
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HIS SISTER PLACED THIS TABLET TO
HIS MEMORY.

HIS MEMORY.
A long time the girl stood silent.
her features quivering with some
strange emotion OF reproach' and pain
Behind her she heard her escorts
voice. He was repeating lines from
the book she had been reading an hour
befores
With my lands language: II too fond and far
These aspirations IN their scope Inclined
II my lame should be. as my fortunes are,
or hasty blight. and dull Oblivion bar
Ny name from out the temple where the dead
Are hcnored by the natIons-let it be-
And light the laurels 1oftier head
Meantime 1 seek no sympathies nor need;
The thorns which I have reaped are OF ths
I planted. They have torn ms-and I bleed
Ny task Is done-my song hath ceased-my
Has died into an echo: II is nc
The spell should break Of this protracted
dream.
The torch shall bs sxtinsuished which hath
My midnight lamp-and what is writ is writ.
Farewell. word that must be. and hath been
A sound which makes Us nngers-yet-fare-
Ye, who have traced the Pilgrim 20 the scene
A Thought which once was his. IL on ye swell
A single recollection. not in vain
He wore his sandai-shoon. and scallop- shelf
Could he whose ashes lay beneath
that recording stone have seen the
look on the girls face as she listened
could he have seen her shrink tnat
night from a Woman'S contained KISS
he would have known that his lips
had been touched with prophecy when
he said: -. -.
her mothers, but the tears of her ma
turity shall be mine.
(Ths End
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AFTERMATH.

Springs quickened. summers sped
their hurrying blooms. autumns hung
scarlet fags.in the coppice. winters fell
and mantIed glebe and moor. Yet the
world did not forget
There came an April day when the
circumstance Of a sudden shower set
down from an open carriage at the
porch OF Newstead Abbey slender
girl of seventeen, who had been visit
ing at nearby Annesley.
Waiting in the library the passing OF
the rain, the visitor picked up a book
from the table. 1t was "Childe Har-
old's Pilgrimage"
For a time she read with tranquil in
terest-then suddenly startled:
Is thy face like thy mothers. my fair chidi
Ada. sole daughter OF my house and heart?
When last 1 saw thy young blue eyes they
And then we parted-not as now we part.
But with hope.
She looked for the name Of its au-
thor and paled. Thereafter she sat
with parted lips and tremulous. long
breathing. The master of the house
entered to find an unknown guest
reading in a singular rapt absorption
Her youth and interest beckoned his
favorite topic He had been one Of the
strangers who, year by year In in
creasing numbers. visited the little
speaking the tongue in which George
Gordon had written. trOd the pave OF
the quiet church with veneratiOn. He
had purchased Newstead and had taken
delight in gathering about him in those
halls mementOeS of the man whose
youth had been spent within them
While the girl listened with wide ewes
on his face, he told her of the life and
death of the man who had written the
book He marveled while he talked.
for it appeared that she had been
reared in utter ignorance Of his writ
ings, did not know that he had lived
beneath that very roof. nor that he Law
buried in the church whose spire could
be seen from the mole. He waxed elo-
quent as he told her how the gilded
rank and fashion of London had found
comfort in silence-how Tom Moore.
long since become one Of it's complacent
satellites, had read it's wishes well:
and given the SNUG seal OF his appro-
baton while secret flame destroyed
the self justification Of a dead mans
name, the Memoirs which had been
last bequest to living daughter.
The shower passed. the sun came
out rejoicing-stiil the master OF the
Abbey talked When he had finished
he showed his listener q portrait.
painted by the American, Benjamin
West. When she turned from this.
her face was oddly white: she was
thinking of another portrait hidden by
a curtain, which had been one OF the
unsolved mysteries of her childhood
On her departure her host drove with
her to Hucknall Church, and standing
in the empty chancel she read the
marble tablet set into the wall:
IN THE VAULT BENEATH
LIE THE REMAINS OF
GEORGE GORDON. LORD BYRON.
THE AUTHOR OF '-CHILDE HAROLD9
PILGRIMAGE"
HE WAS BORN IN LONDON ON THE 2eND
OF JANUARY, 17sS
HE DIED AT UISSOLONGHI IN WESTERN
GREECE. ON THE 10TH OF APRIL. 1924
ENGAGED IN THE GLORIOUS ATTEMPT
TO RESTORE THAT COUNTRY TO HER
ANCIENT FREEDOM AND
RENOWN.
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In Its course IL passed a noble
country-seat, the hermitage of a won-
an who had once burned an effigy be-
fore a gay crowd in Almack's S Assembly
Rooms. Lady Caroline Lamb. diseased
in mind as in body. discerned the pro-
cession from the terrace. As the hearse
came opposite she saw the crest upon
the pail. She tainted and never again
lef. her bed
The cortege halted at Hucknall
Church. near Newstead Abbey. and
there the earthly part OF George Cor
don was laid. Just a year from the hour
he had hidden farewell TO Teresa In the
Pisan garden, where now lonely
woman garnered her deathless men,
cries.
At the close of the service the two
friends who had shared that last
journey-Dallas, now grown feeble. and
Hobhouse, recently knighted and risen
to political prominence-stood together
In the lantern-Hghted porch
What of the Westminster CHAPTER?
asked Dallas. ''Will they grant the
permission"
A shadow crossed the Others coun-
tenance. Popular feeling had under
gone a great revulsion. but clerical
enmity was outspoken and undy1nE.
He thought of bitter philippe he had
heard in the House Of Lords from the
Bishop of London. His voice was re-
sentful as he answered:
''The-dean has refused. The greatest
poet Of the age and country is denied
even a tablet on the wall Of Vest
minister Abbey"
The kindly eyes undeN their white
brows saddened. Dallas looked out
through the darkness where gloomed
the old Gothic towers of Newstead.
tenantless. save for their raucous colon
les OF rocks.
THE greatest poet of his age and
country" he repeated slowly. After
all. we can be satisfied with that