The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-03-31

street, over which the dawn was just breaking, the bugles began to play, there was stir through the town and the troops began to move. Napoleon had broken Into Belgium and the great strug- gle was impending.
 The orders to the front sobered George. He took his wife in his arms and kissed her when he reached home. He wished passiorately that the foolish work of the preceding night were undone-that his whole life had been other than It had been. Amelia wept upon his shoulder; they knelt and said "Our Father" to- gether and then the whiskered dandy rode off toward Waterloo.
 Even great, stupid Rawdon, after he had pressed Becky to his heart, rode away to battle with something very like a prayer on his lips for the woman he was leaving. As for Rebecca, after her lord had ridden away, she took an ac- count of stock and found that, should Rawdor unfortunately be killed in the coming battle she would be able to raise a tidy sum to begin life anew on by sell ing his horses, his watches and other personal belongings and adding the amount to the sum which he had earned in play while in the Belgian capital and lett with her If RaWdon should be shot in the conflict, the English defeated and the Emperor march into Brusses-why clever woman could turn all events to her account. And so the brave little philosopher went to bed quite comforta- bly, and dreamed of living in a French palace and being called Madame La Mare chale.
 The rest of Brussels did not share Mrs. Rawdon Crawley's peace of mnd Quatre Bras was fought and the Belgian allies broke and fled. Thev poured into the city with wild tales of defeat which in creased the confusion and fears of the town
 The Duke fell back upon Waterloo, and made his final stand on Mount St. Jean. 1roclamations in the name of the Elm peror-klng were circulated everywhere and the town authorities prepared a pal ace fot his reception
 or the gay company which had fol- lowed the army all fled who could eet horses-Jos among them. leavinr neor Amelia to the care of Peggy O'Dowd the brave Irish wife of Major O'Dowd oe OsDorne's regiment
 ihen' at last. within hearing of Brns- sels, Was fought the last of the Corsi- clh many fields. All day long the can non thundered and listeners souls thrilled with changing fears In response Toward
 hiShtial. they ceased No more firing
 was heard at Brussels that night: no
 more did the air shake sullenly minute
 by minute; darkness came down unon
 the neic and the city; and Amelia was
 ID Ni 0eoise' who was l.-ing dead on ms race with bullet through bis heart HIS
 Nolonel and Mrs. Rawdon Crawlev en-
 tered faris in triumph with the victorious aihes, and Rawdon. striving to live by play, got almost as badly into deb, in the ffench capital as he was in +ba
 British Then old Miss Crawlev died in
 England, and died unreconcied to bor nephew Thereupon Rebecca resolved
 upon coup.
 Sae pointed out to Rawdon that wb,Ie piay was very well as a help. it was not 10 De depended upon as a means of 1i,,o1i
 hood. She made him sell out of tba a,,.,. s,,-
 and with the money received for his con,
 Ihlssioh and what she could rake ana scrape Tn other ways she went to ronN
 uoA ana affected a compromise with be,
 huspahds creditors, thus opening to hin, again the door of his native land '-' Rawdon followed her with the child for becky had by this time become a n,otbar ana they set up housekeeping in nm ola street. i @oH Becky now set out not only to live o, nothing year. but to do if on o,., ot ,''I scale The house and it's furnishings h., longed to Raggles, formerly butler to ala MISS trawley, who upon leaving the service or that cstinable spinster had gone l'lto the green grocery business ao- cured a comfortable little fortune and bought the house at bargain as an ins vestment He had been brought un in the Crawley family and was. of course delighted to be able to let his property to one of that illustrious race
 Becky also made her peace with Miss Briggs, formerly companion to Miss Crawley. and engaged that poetic woman