The Washington herald., 1907-12-30
Chapter III-Continued.

DuI Tor CuIhDert- he IS so dei.catei he
needs so much care. and he Is so gifted
If he is properly trained he can attain
to anything. but he must be in the
proper environment"
Since that bygone day when his mother
had sought him with that fraii. patheti-
cally small baby in her arms, Rupert
had not met his half-brother till the day
when he reached London, after he had
followed Matthew Woolgar to the grave.
There was .ot the faintest possibility
of sympathy or even friendship between
Octavia Baynhurst's two sons
portrait OF Cuthbert Baynhurst was
hanging over the fireplace in the hall, and
Rupert glanced up at 1t now as he turned
TO leave his mothers house and so out
into the fog again. and as he glanced
he frowned unconsciously.
There were portraits of Cuthbert all
over the house. Young Baynhurst al
fected the society, and In a degree the
calling, of artistic life, and was favorite
subject with most of the artists he knew
but not one of these portraits did justice
In the mothers eyes to that strange. al
most wonansh beauty which the young
fellow possessed. She was blind to any
defect in Cuthbert. either mentally or
physically. Love, when it had come 10
her. had ccl;e in a wild, a primitive
kind of way; she who had carped and
anaiyzed and sought to find the cause
and origin Of slls things, fell at the feet
of this one creature. who claimed her
heart and accepted her destiny unQues-
tioningly
The fact that Cuthbert was lazy. sell
fish, callous, never dawned IN her COM
prehension. She had fashioned him out
Of the purest the best Of herself She
required nothing Of him. and lived merely
TO pour out her love on him.
Just as he was passing out OF the door
Haverford looked back
Il shall be obliged if you will ask Miss
Granger to let me have my mothers
address as soou as she has It," he said.
He got into the cab that was waiting,
and his thoughts fingered about Cuth-
bert
Paris" he said; I thought he was go
ing TO stay in town and work all this
winter"
Then he shrugged his shoulders.
He made II HIS business not 10 inquire
too closely into anything that Cuthbert
did. IN which he showed himself 70 be un-
Ike the majority Of those people who give
10 others. and assuredly he was generous
enough to his half-brother For Cuthbert,
Of course. had the major portion OF any
thing their mother had, and Rupert's first
action (when be had realized that he had
the command Of so much money! had
been 10 surround his mother with every
comfort.
He bought her the house in which she
now lived. she had her own carriage, AID
a very ample income. He gave her. in
fact, exactly the sum equivalent 10 that
which he spent on himself.
Matthew Woolgar had left him the
money eservedly-everything save a
legacy TO his sister. an old, crippled. and
humble woman, has passed ITO the son
OF The best man I ever knew" But
Rupert himself had certain theories. He
felt convinced that this money would
never have come TO him IL Woolgar had
not seen In him the proper medium
through which this immense wealth could
be handled judiciously, and It was his
one desire. his one anxiety. that he should
prove worthy Of the immense trust which
had been placed IN his hands
The schemes about which he had spoken
no paltry things; they were planned on
the most generous lines.
There was scarcely a public charity 10
which Haverford did not already sub
scribe largely, and his private expendi-
ture of this kind was almost without
limit but he intended to do more. much
more. And his keenest his most living
sympathy was with those people among
whom he worked so long; il was on
these tOilers and out Of them that this
great wealth had been CLEANED In the first
instance. and Rupert resolved to give
back TO them in full measure. Nothing
was too large or too important that dealt
with their welfare and the good Of their
rising generation.
Already there had sprung up in that
smoke-grimed factory town a monument
dedicated TO the memory Of the man who
had enriched him and the man who had
given birth 10 him. It took the form OF
a large institution designated for the
practical education and the physical and
moral uplifting Of his old comrades
Life in the factory served to stunt the
growth and the intellect Of those who
did not possess, like himself, that
piercing. that vitalizing determination tc
keep looking upward. II was to such as
these that Haverford determined the
major part Of Matthew Woolgar's money
should go.
After leaving Kensington he went back
10 the city. where he had an office. and
it was late in the afternoon before he
reached the house that was perhaps the
sole reason why he had elected to make
London his headquarters.
Matthew Woolgar had raised up TO him
self a veritable palace. Money had been
lavished on this house like water. The
art experts of the various great Continen-
tai centers had been busy for months and
months finding treasures with which TO
garnish this lOrdly dwelling place.
But Rupert Haverford's benefactor had
never lived In the house. His real home
had been the shabby workers cottage.
where he had dwelt in those far-off years
before his wife and son had died. and
when power and greatness had not even
dawned on the horizon Of his future
When first Rupert Haverford had pass
ed through room after room OF that mag
nifcent house which Matthew woolgar
had built, his feeling had been one of op-
preston and, in a sense, pain. Every
thing was so beautiful, everything was
so cold. That element of desolation. of
heart loneliness. which must have driven
the wealth-burdened man 10 sit and
smoke in his old wooden armchair by the
broken-down fireplace in that humble
north-country cottage made itself felt 10
Rupert almost too sharply
That had been more than two years
ago, and his influence and the crowded.
and 10 him wonderful, circumstances in
those two years had made change IN
everything-in Simself and in all that
surrounded him. Still. though the world
had fluttered in and out of these rooms
very often, this wonderful house remain
ed only a house; il was never a home